Hi, I am Zonghe Shao. I am currently a third-year MPhil student at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), supervised by Prof. Renzhi Lu, and I expect to graduate in June 2027. I received my B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from HUST in 2024.
My research interests include Reinforcement Learning (RL), Large Language Models (LLMs), and their applications in Recommender Systems (Recsys). My main research is on autonomously learning rewards for RL agents (published in Nature Communications and Research). I have rich internship experience: I am currently an intern at Taobao & Tmall Group, Alibaba, and before that I interned at Kuaishou Technology and TikTok, ByteDance. I am interested in LLMs for Recommender Systems (LLM4Rec), Generative Recommendation (GR).
If you want to contact me, or if you are interested in collaborating with me, please drop me an e-mail using my Gmail: zongheshao17[AT]gmail.com.
News
- [2026.10] UGR is available on arXiv !
- [2026.10] I was awarded the National Scholarship !
- [2026.02] One paper accepted by Research !
- [2025.10] One paper accepted by Nature Communications !
- [2024.07] One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics !
Publications
UGR: Unified Generative Ranking for Heterogeneous E-commerce Recommendation
Zonghe Shao, Huabin Chen, Sitong Lu, Fangmei Zhu, Yingcai Ma, Ge Fan, Jinguo Gao, Wei Shi, Yanfang Liu & Huiping Chu
arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.39426, 2026
Work done during an internship at Taobao & Tmall Group of Alibaba.
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Humanoid Robot Locomotion Control with Automatic Reward Learning
Renzhi Lu, Jie Wang, Zonghe Shao, Ruijuan Chen, Lijun Zhu, Yuzhi Jiang, Yunyi Pang, Dongfang Liang, Yang Shi & Han Ding
Research, 9, 1123, 2026
Discovery of the reward function for embodied reinforcement learning agents
Renzhi Lu, Zonghe Shao, Yuemin Ding, Ruijuan Chen, Dongrui Wu, Housheng Su, Tao Yang, Fumin Zhang, Jun Wang, Yang Shi, Zhong-Ping Jiang, Han Ding & Hai-Tao Zhang
Nature Communications, 16(1), 11064, 2025
Educations
- 2024 - 2027, Mphil, School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- 2020 - 2024, Bachelor, Artificial Intelligence, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Internships
Service
- Reviewer for conferences: ICLR, KDD, AAAI
- Reviewer for journals: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (TPS), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), and IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (TCE)