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<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en" class="dark"> <head><meta charset="UTF-8"><meta name="description" content="AI Researcher at Stanford University. His work laid foundation on language agent research, and now he is interested in Human-Agent Interaction."><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="/favicon.svg"><title>Hao Zhu</title><script type="module">localStorage.getItem("theme")==="light"||!localStorage.getItem("theme")&&window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: light)").matches?document.documentElement.classList.remove("dark"):document.documentElement.classList.add("dark");</script><link rel="stylesheet" href="/_astro/blog.C5XUtT1s.css"></head> <body> <div id="app"> <div class="min-h-screen bg-background"> <div class="w-[28rem] md:w-[36rem] lg:w-[40rem] xl:w-[44rem] grid grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-8 gap-x-4 md:gap-x-8 lg:gap-x-12 xl:gap-x-16 gap-y-8 mx-auto px-4 py-8"> <!-- Static Header Section --> <h1 class="col-span-2 pt-8 font-slim text-black dark:text-white md:pt-0 md:text-left md:font-normal group"> <p class="text-2xl"> Hao Zhu </p> <p class="text-lg font-extralight -translate-y-1"> he/him/他 </p> <p class="hidden group-hover:block text-lg">朱昊</p> <p class="text-sm">Postdoctoral</p> <p class="text-sm">Stanford University</p> <p class="text-sm"><a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="02786a776a636d427176636c646d70662c676677">[email protected]</a></p> <p class="text-sm italic">
AI, Cooperation, Language, CogSci, Robotics.
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Me
</div> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <div class="prose text-primary"> <span>I am a researcher with a focus on creating </span> <span class="hover:underline" title="in the virtual and real worlds">AI agents</span> that learn to <span class="hover:underline" title="using language and anything else">communicate</span> and <span class="hover:underline" title="under mixed objectives">cooperate</span> with humans, or <b>Human-Agent Interaction</b>.
</div> </div> <!-- Research Section --> <div class="col-span-2 pt-8 font-slim text-black dark:text-white md:pt-0 md:text-left md:font-normal group" id="my-research">
My Research
</div> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <div class="prose text-primary"> <p>
I take an interactionist approach. This means the priority of my
research is to <span class="italic hover:underline" title="aka train and evaluate">bring up</span>
agents in the realistic open-ended multi-agent embodied
environments. </p> <br> <p>
For examples of environments, check out <a href="https://sotopia.world">Sotopia</a> and <a href="https://webarena.dev">WebArena</a>. We recently studied
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methods for training agents in these environments, check out <a href="https://pi.sotopia.world">Sotopia-π</a> and <a href="https://nnetnav.dev">NNetNav-live</a>. Lately, <a href="https://egonormia.org">EgoNormia</a> benchmarked
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human; the cognition of agents, e.g. reasoning about humans, other
agents, or time and space; and the learning of agents, e.g.
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AI, Cooperation, Language, CogSci, Robotics.
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Me
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</div> </div> <!-- Research Section --> <div class="col-span-2 pt-8 font-slim text-black dark:text-white md:pt-0 md:text-left md:font-normal group" id="my-research">
My Research
</div> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <div class="prose text-primary"> <p>
I take an interactionist approach. This means the priority of my
research is to <span class="italic hover:underline" title="aka train and evaluate">bring up</span>
agents in the realistic open-ended multi-agent embodied
environments. </p> <br> <p>
For examples of environments, check out <a href="https://sotopia.world">Sotopia</a> and <a href="https://webarena.dev">WebArena</a>. We recently studied
how to build real-time agents: <a href="https://realtimegym.saltlab.stanford.edu">Real-time gym</a>. For examples of
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</p> <br> <p>
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agents, or time and space; and the learning of agents, e.g.
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AI, Cooperation, Language, CogSci, Robotics.
</p> </h1> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <img class="Image rounded-xl shadow-xl hover:shadow-2xl hover:-translate-y-0.5 relative transition-shadow duration-200 dark:shadow-gray-500 w-full h-auto" src="/portrait-landscape.jpg" alt="Hao Zhu at Boston"> </div> <!-- Me Section --> <div class="col-span-2 pt-8 font-slim text-black dark:text-white md:pt-0 md:text-left md:font-normal group" id="me">
Me
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My Research
</div> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <div class="prose text-primary"> <p>
I take an interactionist approach. This means the priority of my
research is to <span class="italic hover:underline" title="aka train and evaluate">bring up</span>
agents in the realistic open-ended multi-agent embodied
environments. </p> <br> <p>
For examples of environments, check out <a href="https://sotopia.world">Sotopia</a> and <a href="https://webarena.dev">WebArena</a>. We recently studied
how to build real-time agents: <a href="https://realtimegym.saltlab.stanford.edu">Real-time gym</a>. For examples of
methods for training agents in these environments, check out <a href="https://pi.sotopia.world">Sotopia-π</a> and <a href="https://nnetnav.dev">NNetNav-live</a>. Lately, <a href="https://egonormia.org">EgoNormia</a> benchmarked
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<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en" class="dark"> <head><meta charset="UTF-8"><meta name="description" content="AI Researcher at Stanford University. His work laid foundation on language agent research, and now he is interested in Human-Agent Interaction."><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="/favicon.svg"><title>Hao Zhu</title><script type="module">localStorage.getItem("theme")==="light"||!localStorage.getItem("theme")&&window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: light)").matches?document.documentElement.classList.remove("dark"):document.documentElement.classList.add("dark");</script><link rel="stylesheet" href="/_astro/blog.C5XUtT1s.css"></head> <body> <div id="app"> <div class="min-h-screen bg-background"> <div class="w-[28rem] md:w-[36rem] lg:w-[40rem] xl:w-[44rem] grid grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-8 gap-x-4 md:gap-x-8 lg:gap-x-12 xl:gap-x-16 gap-y-8 mx-auto px-4 py-8"> <!-- Static Header Section --> <h1 class="col-span-2 pt-8 font-slim text-black dark:text-white md:pt-0 md:text-left md:font-normal group"> <p class="text-2xl"> Hao Zhu </p> <p class="text-lg font-extralight -translate-y-1"> he/him/他 </p> <p class="hidden group-hover:block text-lg">朱昊</p> <p class="text-sm">Postdoctoral</p> <p class="text-sm">Stanford University</p> <p class="text-sm"><a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a8d2c0ddc0c9c7e8dbdcc9c6cec7dacc86cdccdd">[email protected]</a></p> <p class="text-sm italic">
AI, Cooperation, Language, CogSci, Robotics.
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Me
</div> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <div class="prose text-primary"> <span>I am a researcher with a focus on creating </span> <span class="hover:underline" title="in the virtual and real worlds">AI agents</span> that learn to <span class="hover:underline" title="using language and anything else">communicate</span> and <span class="hover:underline" title="under mixed objectives">cooperate</span> with humans, or <b>Human-Agent Interaction</b>.
</div> </div> <!-- Research Section --> <div class="col-span-2 pt-8 font-slim text-black dark:text-white md:pt-0 md:text-left md:font-normal group" id="my-research">
My Research
</div> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <div class="prose text-primary"> <p>
I take an interactionist approach. This means the priority of my
research is to <span class="italic hover:underline" title="aka train and evaluate">bring up</span>
agents in the realistic open-ended multi-agent embodied
environments. </p> <br> <p>
For examples of environments, check out <a href="https://sotopia.world">Sotopia</a> and <a href="https://webarena.dev">WebArena</a>. We recently studied
how to build real-time agents: <a href="https://realtimegym.saltlab.stanford.edu">Real-time gym</a>. For examples of
methods for training agents in these environments, check out <a href="https://pi.sotopia.world">Sotopia-π</a> and <a href="https://nnetnav.dev">NNetNav-live</a>. Lately, <a href="https://egonormia.org">EgoNormia</a> benchmarked
the preparedness of frontier models for embodied interactions with
humans. <a href="https://autolibra.opensocial.world">AutoLibra</a>
allows agents to develop self-regulation metrics from human
open-ended feedback.
</p> <br> <p>
My research is built along three major dimensions for agents: the
behavior of agents, e.g. like a computer, a robot, or a simulated
human; the cognition of agents, e.g. reasoning about humans, other
agents, or time and space; and the learning of agents, e.g.
through exploration, environment feedback, or human feed
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<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en" class="dark"> <head><meta charset="UTF-8"><meta name="description" content="AI Researcher at Stanford University. His work laid foundation on language agent research, and now he is interested in Human-Agent Interaction."><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="/favicon.svg"><title>Hao Zhu</title><script type="module">localStorage.getItem("theme")==="light"||!localStorage.getItem("theme")&&window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: light)").matches?document.documentElement.classList.remove("dark"):document.documentElement.classList.add("dark");</script><link rel="stylesheet" href="/_astro/blog.C5XUtT1s.css"></head> <body> <div id="app"> <div class="min-h-screen bg-background"> <div class="w-[28rem] md:w-[36rem] lg:w-[40rem] xl:w-[44rem] grid grid-cols-2 md:grid-cols-8 gap-x-4 md:gap-x-8 lg:gap-x-12 xl:gap-x-16 gap-y-8 mx-auto px-4 py-8"> <!-- Static Header Section --> <h1 class="col-span-2 pt-8 font-slim text-black dark:text-white md:pt-0 md:text-left md:font-normal group"> <p class="text-2xl"> Hao Zhu </p> <p class="text-lg font-extralight -translate-y-1"> he/him/他 </p> <p class="hidden group-hover:block text-lg">朱昊</p> <p class="text-sm">Postdoctoral</p> <p class="text-sm">Stanford University</p> <p class="text-sm"><a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="413b293429202e013235202f272e33256f242534">[email protected]</a></p> <p class="text-sm italic">
AI, Cooperation, Language, CogSci, Robotics.
</p> </h1> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <img class="Image rounded-xl shadow-xl hover:shadow-2xl hover:-translate-y-0.5 relative transition-shadow duration-200 dark:shadow-gray-500 w-full h-auto" src="/portrait-landscape.jpg" alt="Hao Zhu at Boston"> </div> <!-- Me Section --> <div class="col-span-2 pt-8 font-slim text-black dark:text-white md:pt-0 md:text-left md:font-normal group" id="me">
Me
</div> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <div class="prose text-primary"> <span>I am a researcher with a focus on creating </span> <span class="hover:underline" title="in the virtual and real worlds">AI agents</span> that learn to <span class="hover:underline" title="using language and anything else">communicate</span> and <span class="hover:underline" title="under mixed objectives">cooperate</span> with humans, or <b>Human-Agent Interaction</b>.
</div> </div> <!-- Research Section --> <div class="col-span-2 pt-8 font-slim text-black dark:text-white md:pt-0 md:text-left md:font-normal group" id="my-research">
My Research
</div> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <div class="prose text-primary"> <p>
I take an interactionist approach. This means the priority of my
research is to <span class="italic hover:underline" title="aka train and evaluate">bring up</span>
agents in the realistic open-ended multi-agent embodied
environments. </p> <br> <p>
For examples of environments, check out <a href="https://sotopia.world">Sotopia</a> and <a href="https://webarena.dev">WebArena</a>. We recently studied
how to build real-time agents: <a href="https://realtimegym.saltlab.stanford.edu">Real-time gym</a>. For examples of
methods for training agents in these environments, check out <a href="https://pi.sotopia.world">Sotopia-π</a> and <a href="https://nnetnav.dev">NNetNav-live</a>. Lately, <a href="https://egonormia.org">EgoNormia</a> benchmarked
the preparedness of frontier models for embodied interactions with
humans. <a href="https://autolibra.opensocial.world">AutoLibra</a>
allows agents to develop self-regulation metrics from human
open-ended feedback.
</p> <br> <p>
My research is built along three major dimensions for agents: the
behavior of agents, e.g. like a computer, a robot, or a simulated
human; the cognition of agents, e.g. reasoning about humans, other
agents, or time and space; and the learning of agents, e.g.
through exploration, environment feedback, or human feed
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AI, Cooperation, Language, CogSci, Robotics.
</p> </h1> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <img class="Image rounded-xl shadow-xl hover:shadow-2xl hover:-translate-y-0.5 relative transition-shadow duration-200 dark:shadow-gray-500 w-full h-auto" src="/portrait-landscape.jpg" alt="Hao Zhu at Boston"> </div> <!-- Me Section --> <div class="col-span-2 pt-8 font-slim text-black dark:text-white md:pt-0 md:text-left md:font-normal group" id="me">
Me
</div> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <div class="prose text-primary"> <span>I am a researcher with a focus on creating </span> <span class="hover:underline" title="in the virtual and real worlds">AI agents</span> that learn to <span class="hover:underline" title="using language and anything else">communicate</span> and <span class="hover:underline" title="under mixed objectives">cooperate</span> with humans, or <b>Human-Agent Interaction</b>.
</div> </div> <!-- Research Section --> <div class="col-span-2 pt-8 font-slim text-black dark:text-white md:pt-0 md:text-left md:font-normal group" id="my-research">
My Research
</div> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <div class="prose text-primary"> <p>
I take an interactionist approach. This means the priority of my
research is to <span class="italic hover:underline" title="aka train and evaluate">bring up</span>
agents in the realistic open-ended multi-agent embodied
environments. </p> <br> <p>
For examples of environments, check out <a href="https://sotopia.world">Sotopia</a> and <a href="https://webarena.dev">WebArena</a>. We recently studied
how to build real-time agents: <a href="https://realtimegym.saltlab.stanford.edu">Real-time gym</a>. For examples of
methods for training agents in these environments, check out <a href="https://pi.sotopia.world">Sotopia-π</a> and <a href="https://nnetnav.dev">NNetNav-live</a>. Lately, <a href="https://egonormia.org">EgoNormia</a> benchmarked
the preparedness of frontier models for embodied interactions with
humans. <a href="https://autolibra.opensocial.world">AutoLibra</a>
allows agents to develop self-regulation metrics from human
open-ended feedback.
</p> <br> <p>
My research is built along three major dimensions for agents: the
behavior of agents, e.g. like a computer, a robot, or a simulated
human; the cognition of agents, e.g. reasoning about humans, other
agents, or time and space; and the learning of agents, e.g.
through exploration, environment feedback, or human feed
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AI, Cooperation, Language, CogSci, Robotics.
</p> </h1> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <img class="Image rounded-xl shadow-xl hover:shadow-2xl hover:-translate-y-0.5 relative transition-shadow duration-200 dark:shadow-gray-500 w-full h-auto" src="/portrait-landscape.jpg" alt="Hao Zhu at Boston"> </div> <!-- Me Section --> <div class="col-span-2 pt-8 font-slim text-black dark:text-white md:pt-0 md:text-left md:font-normal group" id="me">
Me
</div> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <div class="prose text-primary"> <span>I am a researcher with a focus on creating </span> <span class="hover:underline" title="in the virtual and real worlds">AI agents</span> that learn to <span class="hover:underline" title="using language and anything else">communicate</span> and <span class="hover:underline" title="under mixed objectives">cooperate</span> with humans, or <b>Human-Agent Interaction</b>.
</div> </div> <!-- Research Section --> <div class="col-span-2 pt-8 font-slim text-black dark:text-white md:pt-0 md:text-left md:font-normal group" id="my-research">
My Research
</div> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <div class="prose text-primary"> <p>
I take an interactionist approach. This means the priority of my
research is to <span class="italic hover:underline" title="aka train and evaluate">bring up</span>
agents in the realistic open-ended multi-agent embodied
environments. </p> <br> <p>
For examples of environments, check out <a href="https://sotopia.world">Sotopia</a> and <a href="https://webarena.dev">WebArena</a>. We recently studied
how to build real-time agents: <a href="https://realtimegym.saltlab.stanford.edu">Real-time gym</a>. For examples of
methods for training agents in these environments, check out <a href="https://pi.sotopia.world">Sotopia-π</a> and <a href="https://nnetnav.dev">NNetNav-live</a>. Lately, <a href="https://egonormia.org">EgoNormia</a> benchmarked
the preparedness of frontier models for embodied interactions with
humans. <a href="https://autolibra.opensocial.world">AutoLibra</a>
allows agents to develop self-regulation metrics from human
open-ended feedback.
</p> <br> <p>
My research is built along three major dimensions for agents: the
behavior of agents, e.g. like a computer, a robot, or a simulated
human; the cognition of agents, e.g. reasoning about humans, other
agents, or time and space; and the learning of agents, e.g.
through exploration, environment feedback, or human feed
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Me
</div> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <div class="prose text-primary"> <span>I am a researcher with a focus on creating </span> <span class="hover:underline" title="in the virtual and real worlds">AI agents</span> that learn to <span class="hover:underline" title="using language and anything else">communicate</span> and <span class="hover:underline" title="under mixed objectives">cooperate</span> with humans, or <b>Human-Agent Interaction</b>.
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My Research
</div> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <div class="prose text-primary"> <p>
I take an interactionist approach. This means the priority of my
research is to <span class="italic hover:underline" title="aka train and evaluate">bring up</span>
agents in the realistic open-ended multi-agent embodied
environments. </p> <br> <p>
For examples of environments, check out <a href="https://sotopia.world">Sotopia</a> and <a href="https://webarena.dev">WebArena</a>. We recently studied
how to build real-time agents: <a href="https://realtimegym.saltlab.stanford.edu">Real-time gym</a>. For examples of
methods for training agents in these environments, check out <a href="https://pi.sotopia.world">Sotopia-π</a> and <a href="https://nnetnav.dev">NNetNav-live</a>. Lately, <a href="https://egonormia.org">EgoNormia</a> benchmarked
the preparedness of frontier models for embodied interactions with
humans. <a href="https://autolibra.opensocial.world">AutoLibra</a>
allows agents to develop self-regulation metrics from human
open-ended feedback.
</p> <br> <p>
My research is built along three major dimensions for agents: the
behavior of agents, e.g. like a computer, a robot, or a simulated
human; the cognition of agents, e.g. reasoning about humans, other
agents, or time and space; and the learning of agents, e.g.
through exploration, environment feedback, or human feed
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AI, Cooperation, Language, CogSci, Robotics.
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Me
</div> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <div class="prose text-primary"> <span>I am a researcher with a focus on creating </span> <span class="hover:underline" title="in the virtual and real worlds">AI agents</span> that learn to <span class="hover:underline" title="using language and anything else">communicate</span> and <span class="hover:underline" title="under mixed objectives">cooperate</span> with humans, or <b>Human-Agent Interaction</b>.
</div> </div> <!-- Research Section --> <div class="col-span-2 pt-8 font-slim text-black dark:text-white md:pt-0 md:text-left md:font-normal group" id="my-research">
My Research
</div> <div class="col-span-2 md:col-span-6"> <div class="prose text-primary"> <p>
I take an interactionist approach. This means the priority of my
research is to <span class="italic hover:underline" title="aka train and evaluate">bring up</span>
agents in the realistic open-ended multi-agent embodied
environments. </p> <br> <p>
For examples of environments, check out <a href="https://sotopia.world">Sotopia</a> and <a href="https://webarena.dev">WebArena</a>. We recently studied
how to build real-time agents: <a href="https://realtimegym.saltlab.stanford.edu">Real-time gym</a>. For examples of
methods for training agents in these environments, check out <a href="https://pi.sotopia.world">Sotopia-π</a> and <a href="https://nnetnav.dev">NNetNav-live</a>. Lately, <a href="https://egonormia.org">EgoNormia</a> benchmarked
the preparedness of frontier models for embodied interactions with
humans. <a href="https://autolibra.opensocial.world">AutoLibra</a>
allows agents to develop self-regulation metrics from human
open-ended feedback.
</p> <br> <p>
My research is built along three major dimensions for agents: the
behavior of agents, e.g. like a computer, a robot, or a simulated
human; the cognition of agents, e.g. reasoning about humans, other
agents, or time and space; and the learning of agents, e.g.
through exploration, environment feedback, or human feed