Shuyan Zhou
Assistant Professor at Duke University
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShuyan Zhou is an Assistant Professor and AI researcher with eight years of experience building and leading projects at the intersection of large language models, agents, and code generation. After a PhD at Carnegie Mellon where she co-created tools like WebArena, PaL, and DocPrompting, she held research roles at Meta (leading Llama agent research), Google Labs, X, and Microsoft before joining Duke to run the i2x-ai-lab. Her work blends foundational LLM capabilities with practical agent and program-aided systems, emphasizing developer-facing code generation and interactive tooling. Known for pragmatic research that moves quickly from prototypes to usable demos, she combines deep academic rigor with product-minded experimentation.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science , Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Harbin Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (73)
e2e-testing10
testing10
firefox10
api10
visual-question-answering10
test-automation10
agent10
chrome10
interaction10
webkit9
chatgpt9
webdriver9
javascript9
browser-automation9
chromium9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
shuyanzhou/pbel_plus
Apr 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:70 commits, 10 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
web-arena-x/webarena
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
Code repo for "WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents"
Contributions:2 releases, 7 reviews, 47 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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