Bowen Wang

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I'm a

3rd

year Ph.D. student at the University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Tao Yu. Previously I got my bachelor's degree of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University 
My research focuses on Digital Agents (Computer-Use Agents), Large-Scale Agentic Reinforcement Learning, and Synthetic Data. I am particularly interested in (1) post-training computer-use agents to raise the ceiling of multimodal intelligence, so they can take on real personal and professional work[1,2,3,4]; (2) building frontier agentic RL infrastructure and algorithms efficiently enough to support large-scale multi-task RL[5,6]; and (3) using models to synthesize tasks and environments at scale[1], to break the data bottleneck in frontier domains and raise the ceiling on recursive self-improvement (RSI).
I have primarily worked on computer-use agents (CUA), developing open foundations through mid-training and post-training and building open-sourced CUA models[7,8,9,10].

What's New

  • 06/2026: Gave talks at NVIDIA Research, the Deep Learning Group @ MSR, Mila-Quebec AI Institute, WebAgentLab, and CAMEL-AI. Check out the slides!
  • 05/2026: We're thrilled to release CUA-Gym, check it out! We'll gradually release the full data and models, stay tuned.
  • 05/2026: New blog post: We Spent a Year Building Verifiable Training Tasks for GUI Agents.
  • 02/2026: Computer Agent Arena was accepted to ICLR'26 as a poster (top 3%). See you in Brazil 🇧🇷!
  • 10/2025: OpenCUA was accepted to NeurIPS 2025 as a Spotlight.
  • 09/2025: OpenCUA received the Best Paper Award at the COLM AIA workshop.

Experiences

  1. Date
    Company
    Apple AI/ML
    Role
    Research Scientist Intern · Digital Agent Research
    Advisor
    Advisor: Dongxu Li & Zhe Gan
  2. Date
    Company
    Qwen Team, Alibaba Group
    Role
    Research Scientist Intern · Post-training in CUA
    Advisor
    Advisor: Binyuan Hui & Junyang Lin
  3. Date
    Company
    Moonshot AI
    Role
    Research Intern · Post-training in CUA
    Advisor
    Advisor: Hao Hu & Flood Sung

Education

  1. Date
    Company
    The University of Hong Kong
    Role
    Ph.D. Student
    Advisor
    Advisor: Tao Yu
  2. Date
    Company
    Tsinghua University
    Role
    B.E. in Computer Science

Selected Publications

OSWorld 2.0: Benchmarking Computer Use Agents on Long-Horizon Real-World Tasks

Mengqi Yuan, Zilong Zhou, Xinzhuang Xiong, Weiming Wu, Jiayang Sun, Jiamin Song, Kaiqian Cui, Bowen Wang, Haoyuan Wu, Yitong Li, Dunjie Lu, Haikong Lu, Qi Zhen, Xinyuan Wang, Jiaqi Deng, Yuhao Yang, Cheng Chen, Boyuan Zheng, Alex Su, Xiao Yu, Hao Zou, Saaket Agashe, Xing Han Lu, Manpreet Kaur, Zhengyang Qi, Vincent Sunn Chen, Frederic Sala, Dayiheng Liu, Junyang Lin, Zhou Yu, Yu Su, Siva Reddy, Xin Eric Wang, Peng Qi, Tianbao Xie, Tao Yu

CUA-Gym: Scaling Verifiable Training Environments and Tasks for Computer-Use Agents

Bowen Wang, Dunjie Lu, Junli Wang, Tianyi Bai, Shixuan Liu, Zhipeng Zhang, Haiquan Wang, Hao Hu, Tianbao Xie, Shuai Bai, Dayiheng Liu, Que Shen, Junyang Lin, Tao Yu

Computer Agent Arena: Evaluating Computer-Use Agents via Crowdsourcing from Real Users

Bowen Wang*, Xinyuan Wang*, Jiaqi Deng*, Tianbao Xie, Ryan Li, Yanzhe Zhang, Zicheng Gong, Gavin Li, Toh Jing Hua, Ion Stoica, Wei-Lin Chiang, Diyi Yang, Yu Su, Yi Zhang, Zhiguo Wang, Victor Zhong, Tao Yu

ICLR'26 (Top 3%)[Website][Paper]

OpenCUA: Open Foundations for Computer-Use Agents

Xinyuan Wang*, Bowen Wang*, Dunjie Lu, Junlin Yang, Tianbao Xie, Junli Wang, Jiaqi Deng, Xiaole Guo, Yiheng Xu, Chen Henry Wu, Zhennan Shen, Zhuokai Li, Ryan Li, Xiaochuan Li, Junda Chen, Boyuan Zheng, Peihang Li, Fangyu Lei, Ruisheng Cao, Yeqiao Fu, Dongchan Shin, Martin Shin, Jiariu Hu, Yuyan Wang, Jixuan Chen, Yuxiao Ye, Danyang Zhang, Yipu Wang, Heng Wang, Diyi Yang, Victor Zhong, Y. Charles, Zhilin Yang, Tao Yu

NeurIPS'25 (Spotlight)COLM'25 AIA Workshop (Best Paper Award)[Website][Paper][Code]

Technical Reports

Qwen-CUA: Native Computer Use for (almost) Everything

The Qwen Team, Alibaba Group.

2026Technical Report[Paper]

Qwen 3.5, Qwen 3.6, Qwen 3.7

The Qwen Team, Alibaba Group.

2026Technical Report

Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence

The Kimi Team.

2026Technical Report[Paper]

Kimi-VL Technical Report

The Kimi Team.

2025Technical Report[Paper]

Honors & Awards

  1. 2025
    Workshop Best Paper Award
    COLM 2025 AIA workshop
  2. 2025
    Research Postgraduate Student Innovation Award
    The University of Hong Kong
  3. 2023
    Research and Innovation Scholarship
    Tsinghua University
  4. 2022
    2-nd Prize, Challenge-Cup Competition Award
    Tsinghua University

Talks

  1. 2026
    How Do We Scale Computer-Use Agent Post-training?
    NVIDIA Research
    MSR Deep Learning Group
    Mila-Quebec AI Institute
    WebAgentLab
    CAMEL-AI
  2. 2025
    Language Agents
    University of Tasmania