My name is Shuyu Gan(็ไนฆๅฎ). I am a CS PhD student at UMN Minnesota NLP and Optimization for AI Lab (OptimAI-Lab), co-advised by Prof. Dongyeop Kang and Prof. Mingyi Hong. My research interests focus on Generative AI, LLM Alignments and Agentic Framework Developments. My current goal is to develop general purpose agents that can automate computer work.
Previously, I was a member of Turing Class in Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University and obtained my Bachelorโs degree in Computer Science and Technology in 2024. During my undergraduate, I am grateful to be advised by Prof. Lingyun Sun, Prof. Yi Yang, Prof. Zhuowen Tu and Prof. Xin Eric Wang. Check out my CV for more details.
๐ Educations
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2025.09 - Future, Graduate Student, Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
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2020.09 - 2024.06, Undergraduate, Computer Science, Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang Univeristy.
๐ฅ News
- 2026.04: ย ๐๐ Scaling Unverifiable Rewards was accepted to ACL 2026 Findings!
- 2025.08: ย ๐๐ A2P-Vis received the Honorable Mention Award at VISxGenAI Workshop@VIS 2025!
- 2025.01: ย ๐๐ Agent S was accepted by ICLR 2025! Thanks to all my collaborators!
- 2024.06: ย ๐๐ Graduated from Zhejiang University and nominated for Outstanding Graduates of Zhejiang University. Bye ZJU!
- 2023.07: ย ๐๐ One paper accepted by ACMMM 2023.
๐ป Research Experience
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2025.06 - Present Graduate Research Assistant, Minnesota NLP & OptimAI-Lab, University of Minnesota
Co-advised by Prof. Dongyeop Kang and Prof. Mingyi Hong, working on Agentic AI and Inference Test-Time Scaling. -
2024.06 - 2024.11 Undergradute Visiting Research Intern, ERIC Lab, UC Santa Cruz
Advised by Prof. Xin Eric Wang, we introduced Agent S, an MLLM-based agent that autonomously perform complex computer tasks. -
2023.07 - 2023.09 Undergradute Visiting Research Intern, mlPC, UC San Diego
Supervised by Prof. Zhuowen Tu, we injected conceptual guidance into Diffusion modelsโ training process to improve the quality of generatedimages and avoid making semantic mistakes. -
2023.02 - 2023.05 Research Intern, IDEA Lab, ZJU
Advised by Prof. Lingyun Sun, we tackled the noticable absence of cultural modalities in the multimodal co-speech gesture generation field.
๐ Publications & Preprints
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Scaling Unverifiable Rewards: A Case Study on Visual Insights
Shuyu Gan, J Mooney, P Hao, R Wang, M Hong, Q Wang, D Kang
ACL 2026 Findings
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A2P-Vis: an Analyzer-to-Presenter Agentic Pipeline for Visual Insights Generation and Reporting
Shuyu Gan, R Wang, J Mooney, D Kang
VISxGenAI Workshop@VIS 2025 (Honorable Mention)
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I Tsaknakis, B Song, Shuyu Gan, D Kang, A Garcia, G Liu, C Fleming, M Hong
arXiv 2025
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Agent S: An Open Agentic Framework that Uses Computers Like a Human
Saaket Agashe, Jiuzhou Han, Shuyu Gan, Jiachen Yang, Ang Li, Xin Eric Wang
ICLR 2025
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Cultural Self-Adaptive Multimodal Gesture Generation Based on Multiple Culture Gesture Dataset
Jingyu Wu, Shi Chen, Shuyu Gan, Weijun Li, Changyuan Yang, Lingyun Sun
ACMMM 2023
๐ฎ๐ธ๐ Miscellaneous
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I love playing FPS games in my spare time, especially CS2 and Valoriant!
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For sports, I have been a member of Kuafu Long Distance Alliance in ZJU for three years and I love middle and long-distance running! I have participated in 1500m race and Half Marathon at Zhejiang University.
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I also love playing badminton(Even if I am an ameteur).