
Junyi Zhou
PhD Student
City University of Hong Kong
About
I am Junyi (Joey) Zhou, a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Chen Ma. I am currently a research intern with the WeLM Foundation Model Team, WeChat AI, Tencent. Before joining CityU in 2025, I received my B.E. in Computer Science from Northeastern University.
My research focuses on agentic AI, with the goal of building foundation-model agents that can solve complex real-world tasks. I am particularly interested in scaling long-horizon agentic tasks and environments, unlocking agentic capabilities of foundation models through post-training, and evaluating agent performance and reliability in complex scenarios. For more details, please check my CV here.
News
LLM-as-a-Judge for Top-K Recommendation was accepted to KDD 2026 for an oral presentation.
RubricBench was accepted to the ACL 2026 main conference.
I joined the WeLM Team, Tencent as a research intern.
I started my Ph.D. in Computer Science at CityU, advised by Prof. Chen Ma.
I received my B.E. in Computer Science from Northeastern University.
Selected Publications
View All ->WorkBorne: Discovering Agentic Tasks from Real-World Artifact Transitions
Junyi Zhou, Yufei Wang, Qiyuan Zhang, Chuhan Wu, Zhengxi Li, Wentao Zhao, Jie Zhou, Le Tian, Zhou Xiao, Chen Ma
Preprint 2026
SkillForgeBench: Evaluating Agent Reliability Grounded in Agent Skill Specifications
Zhengxi Li, Junyi Zhou, Qiyuan Zhang, Chuhan Wu, Fuyuan Lyu, Le Tian, Zhou Xiao, Chen Ma, Yufei Wang
Preprint 2026
Reading is Not Reasoning: Bridging the Agentic Policy Gap in Vision–Text Compression
Cheng Fan, Junyi Zhou, Tingzhang Luo, RongJian Xu, Qiyanhui Lu, Mingjian Zhu, Hanting Chen, Jianyuan Guo
Preprint 2026
WorkBorne: Discovering Agentic Tasks from Real-World Artifact Transitions
Junyi Zhou, Yufei Wang, Qiyuan Zhang, Chuhan Wu, Zhengxi Li, Wentao Zhao, Jie Zhou, Le Tian, Zhou Xiao, Chen Ma
Preprint 2026
SkillForgeBench: Evaluating Agent Reliability Grounded in Agent Skill Specifications
Zhengxi Li, Junyi Zhou, Qiyuan Zhang, Chuhan Wu, Fuyuan Lyu, Le Tian, Zhou Xiao, Chen Ma, Yufei Wang
Preprint 2026
Reading is Not Reasoning: Bridging the Agentic Policy Gap in Vision–Text Compression
Cheng Fan, Junyi Zhou, Tingzhang Luo, RongJian Xu, Qiyanhui Lu, Mingjian Zhu, Hanting Chen, Jianyuan Guo
Preprint 2026
Teaching
Courses I have assisted with at City University of Hong Kong.
Natural Language Processing
Teaching Assistant
Software Design
Teaching Assistant
Software Engineering Practice
Teaching Assistant