Bo Zhang

Young Scientist at Shanghai AI Laboratory and Head of the Agent Center

Bo Zhang is a Young Scientist at Shanghai AI Laboratory and Head of the Agent Center. His research focuses on general AI agents, multimodal reasoning large models, and their applications in autonomous scientific discovery. His work has earned him numerous awards, including the Shanghai Outstanding Young Talents Award, Shanghai Rising Star, the 2020/2021 National Scholarship, the 2019 Excellent Doctoral Scholarship of Fudan University, and various awards from VALSE China and the Shanghai Municipal Government. His research has also contributed to industrial applications such as airport checkpoint security recognition and Robosweeper. Throughout his academic career, Bo Zhang has published more than 50 papers in top-tier venues such as CVPR, ICLR, ICML, ACL, T-PAMI, TIP, and IJCV. He has also won the OpenAI MLE-bench and Waymo Open Dataset Challenge for his work on multi-agent collaborative optimization and perception-decision making. He and his team are deeply committed to building foundation agents and multi-agent systems that address real-world challenges. He led the development of InternAgent and the Intern-Discovery platform, which was officially launched at WAIC 2025 and featured in MIT Technology Review and People's Daily. Using this platform, he and his team collaborated with the Lingang Laboratory to develop OriGene, leading to the successful discovery of two original biological targets: GPR160 and ARG2.