I am an AI Research Scientist (Large Language Models) at Salesforce Research, working under Dr. Junnan Li .

I obtained my PhD in Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University (2025), advised by Prof. Jing Ma . Previously, I was a visiting researcher at the National University of Singapore (2024), collaborating with Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli . I have also interned at Microsoft Research and Alibaba DAMO Academy. I was deeply involved in the development of the well-known open-source project WizardLM , served as the first author of WizardCoder, and contributed to the first commercial-scale diffusion LLM, Mercury .

My research focuses on foundation models and artificial intelligence, with a particular emphasis on developing trustworthy intelligent agents that can effectively interact with real-world environments. I have published over 30 papers at top-tier AI conferences, including ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, and EMNLP. For academic collaboration or inquiries, please reach out via email at zluo AT salesforce.com or WeChat (ID: chiyeunglaw).