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

2026-08

LLM-as-a-Judge for Top-K Recommendation was accepted to KDD 2026 for an oral presentation.

2026-07

RubricBench was accepted to the ACL 2026 main conference.

2026-06

I joined the WeLM Team, Tencent as a research intern.

2025-09

I started my Ph.D. in Computer Science at CityU, advised by Prof. Chen Ma.

2025-07

I received my B.E. in Computer Science from Northeastern University.

Selected Publications

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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

RubricBench: Aligning Model-Generated Rubrics with Human Standards

Junyi Zhou, Qiyuan Zhang, Yufei Wang, Fuyuan Lyu, Yidong Ming, Can Xu, Qingfeng Sun, Kai Zheng, Peng Kang, Xue Liu, Chen Ma

ACL 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

LLM-as-a-Judge for Reliable and Explainable Offline Evaluation in Top-K Recommendation

Yue Que, Junyi Zhou, Xiaokun Zhang, Haiming Jin, Qiao Xiang, Chen Ma

KDD · Oral 2026

Teaching

Courses I have assisted with at City University of Hong Kong.

Natural Language Processing

Teaching Assistant

CityU DongguanCS6493

Software Design

Teaching Assistant

City University of Hong KongCS3342

Software Engineering Practice

Teaching Assistant

City University of Hong KongCS3343