Tao Yu

Assistant Professor · HKU Research Institutes and Centres · The University of Hong Kong

Quick answer: Tao Yu is Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong. Tao Yu shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-10-19.

⭐ We are actively looking for strong and motivated students to join our group! If you are interested in working with us, please read recent papers, fill in the form with thoughts on extensions. Sorry, I'm afraid I generally can't respond to all individual emails.

Research interests

Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Dialog Systems, Natural Language Interfaces

Selected publications (since 2023)

[2025] OpenCUA: Open Foundations for Computer-Use Agents (NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight) [2025] Aguvis: Unified Pure Vision Agents for Autonomous GUI Interaction (ICML 2025) [2025] Spider 2.0: Evaluating Language Models on Real-World Enterprise Text-to-SQL Workflows (ICLR 2025 Oral) [2025] BRIGHT: A Realistic and Challenging Benchmark for Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval (ICLR 2025 Spotlight) [2025] AgentTrek: Agent Trajectory Synthesis via Guiding Replay with Web Tutorials (ICLR 2025 Spotlight) [2025] Learn-by-interact: A Data-Centric Framework for Self-Adaptive Agents in Realistic Environments (ICLR 2025) [2025] Generative Representational Instruction Tuning (ICLR 2025) [2025] Attacking Vision-Language Computer Agents via Pop-ups (ACL 2025) [2024] OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-E

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Frequently asked questions

Is Tao Yu hiring PhD students at The University of Hong Kong?

Yes. As of 2026-10-19, Tao Yu's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: We are actively looking for strong and motivated students to join our group! If you are interested in working with us, please read recent papers, fill in the form with thoughts on extensions. Sorry, I.

What does Tao Yu research?

Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Dialog Systems, Natural Language Interfaces

Data last updated: 2026-10-19 · Source: phd-match.com faculty database.

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