Chenhao Zhang

About Me

Hi there! I am a junior undergraduate student from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). I am currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science (2023 - 2027) with a background in Management & Medicine (2022).
Currently, I am joining NYU Courant as a student intern, advised by Prof. Saining Xie. Previously, I interned at Shanghai AI Lab, and was fortunate to work with Prof. Min Yang at SIAT.
⭐I am aspiring to apply for the PhD program in the Fall of 2027. To better prepare for this and gain more in-depth research experience, I am actively seeking the long-term research internship and research cooperation opportunity. If you have any relevant opportunities or ideas, please feel free to contact me!

💬Research Interests

• Emotional Intelligence: Emotion Reasoning, Mental health AI (Emotional support conversation/Agent), Society Agent
• Vision & Language: MLLM General ability (Understanding/Reasoning/Evaluation), Image & Text Metaphor
• Multimodal Reinforcement Learning: LLM-based RL, VLM-based RL, General Rule-based RL, MCTS + PRM, Inference Scaling

🔥News

📝Publications & Preprints

💼Experience

⚔️Projects

• Leader of EmoLLM , a project about large language models (LLMs) and mental health.
• Co-Leader of Mini-Sora , a community aims to explore the implementation path and future development direction of Sora.
• Core Contributor of Awesome LLM Strawberry , a collection of LLM papers, blogs, and projects, with a focus on OpenAI o1 and reasoning techniques.
• Core Contributor of Awesome RLHF , a collection of research papers for Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF).
• Contributor of Tianji , a project about large language models (LLMs) and human social skills.
• Contributor of InternLM , a community of high-quality LLMs as well as a full-stack toolchain for development and application.
• Contributor of OpenMMLab-mmagic , an open-source toolbox about image and video editing&generating based on PyTorch.

🏆Awards

• 2025 SenseTime Scholarship (Award Rate: less than 0.1%, 30 undergrads China-wide)
• 2025 Baosteel scholarship (Award Rate: less than 0.1%, 100+ undergrads China-wide)
• 2024 China National Scholarship Top Prize (Award Rate: less than 0.1%, 60 Taiwanese students China-wide)
• 2024 NeurIPS Scholar Award
• 2024 Shanghai AI Lab Puyuan Large Language Model Series Challenge Competition(Spring) Innovation and Creativity Award (Award Rate: 5/122)
• 2023 iFLYTEK AI DEVELOPER COMPETITION Rank 2nd (Award Rate: 2/2600+)
• 2023 ZhenFund & SegmentFault & Monica HACKATHON Best Creativity Award (Award Rate: 1/80+)
• 2023 Founder Park & Zilliz & ZhipuAI Global HACKATHON Global Rank 6th (Award Rate: 6/240+)

💡Talks & Reports

• 2025商汤奖学金公布！30位“AI新星”亮相 - Interview by SenseTime
• ACL 2025预讲会：Can MLLMs Understand the Deep Implication Behind Chinese Images? - Interview by AI TIME
• ACL 2024预讲会：CPsyCoun - Interview by AI TIME
• 当大模型遇上心理咨询：基于心理咨询报告的对话重构和评测框架CPsyCoun - Interview by Shanghai AI Lab
• 大模型创意无限：异彩纷呈的GLMs个性化智能体带来全新体验 - Interview by Zhipu.ai

🎓Services

Community

• Shanghai AI Lab & InternLM Camp Teaching Assistant (TA)

• OpenMMLab MMagic-SIG

• DataWhale Member

• AI TIME Member

• M-A-P Member

• SparkLab S2 HackLead

Conference Reviewers

• The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026

• The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2025

• The Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025

• The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2025

• The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025

• The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2024