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Researcher

Lianghao Deng

Lianghao Deng is a researcher whose work spans language models, multimodal understanding and AI agent evaluation. They studied as an undergraduate at Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication from 2018 to 2022 and as an MS student at Renmin University of China from 2022 to 2025. In 2025, they were core contributors to the Qwen3 and Qwen3-VL technical reports, covering language and vision-language models. Their 2026 work included DeepPlanning, OccuBench, Qwen-AgentWorld and E-Commerce Bench, which examine long-horizon agent planning, professional tasks, simulated environments and online-store operations. As of October 2026, they are a researcher with Alibaba Group's Qwen Team.

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Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2018–2025

    Undergraduate and master's study

    They study as an undergraduate at Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication from 2018 to 2022. They are an MS student at Renmin University of China from 2022 to 2025.

  2. May 2025

    Core contributor to Qwen3

    In May 2025, they are one of the Qwen Team's core contributors to the Qwen3 Technical Report. The Qwen3 family includes dense and mixture-of-experts models from 0.6 to 235 billion parameters and combines thinking and non-thinking modes in one framework.

  3. November 2025

    Core contributor to Qwen3-VL

    In November 2025, they are a core contributor to the Qwen3-VL Technical Report. Its vision-language models support interleaved text, images and video in contexts of up to 256K tokens.

  4. January–July 2026

    DeepPlanning at ACL 2026

    In January 2026, they co-author DeepPlanning with Yinger Zhang, Jianhong Tu, Junyang Lin and other researchers. The benchmark tests multi-day travel planning and multi-product shopping under time and financial budgets. The paper appears in the ACL 2026 proceedings in July 2026 in San Diego.

  5. April 2026

    OccuBench for professional tasks

    In April 2026, they co-author OccuBench, a project credited to the Qwen Team, Alibaba Group and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The benchmark covers 100 real-world professional task scenarios across 10 industry categories and 65 specialized domains.

  6. June 2026

    Qwen-AgentWorld models

    In June 2026, they contribute to Qwen-AgentWorld. The project introduces Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B and Qwen-AgentWorld-397B-A17B, language world models that simulate agent environments across seven domains through long chain-of-thought reasoning.

  7. August 2026

    E-Commerce Bench

    In August 2026, they co-author E-Commerce Bench, a benchmark for long-horizon autonomous business operation. Each agent starts with ¥100,000 and runs up to four online stores for 365 simulated days, negotiating with suppliers and managing cash flow.

  8. As of October 2026

    Researcher at Alibaba's Qwen Team

    As of October 2026, they are a researcher with Alibaba Group's Qwen Team.

Career

  1. Since 2026AlibabaMember

Education

  1. 2025Renmin University of ChinaMS
  2. 2022Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsUndergraduate

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. DeepPlanning: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Agentic Planning with Verifiable Constraints2026 · 0 citationsWith Chenxu Lv
  2. E-Commerce Bench: Evaluating LLM Agents on Long-Horizon Autonomous Business Operation2026 · 0 citations
  3. OccuBench: Evaluating AI Agents on Real-World Professional Tasks via Language Environment Simulation2026 · 0 citationsWith Fei Huang

From OpenAlex, as of 21 October 2026.

  1. 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a companyIncludes Lianghao Deng. We estimate that 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a company; 29% of moves starting at a university went to a company, and 76% ended the university role.
  2. Google alumni have founded or led 133 other organizations, more than any other AI labIncludes Alibaba. We estimate that alumni of 17 major AI labs went on to found or lead 350 other organizations, including 226 they founded, and we trace 472 career moves directly between 23 labs since 2010.
  3. Universities (31%) and startups and other companies (25%) employ the largest shares of 2020–2026 entrantsIncludes Alibaba. Among 819 people whose first recorded role started in 2020–2026 and who have a known current organization, 60% work in commercial sectors (25% at startups and other companies, 23% at frontier labs and 13% at big tech, with 9 in two), and 31% work at universities, compared with 66% for earlier entrants.
  4. The top 10 organizations employed 22% of people shaping AI in 2025: 51% of company researchers and 21% of university researchersIncludes Alibaba. We estimate the share of people shaping AI who worked at the top 10 organizations each year from 1955 to 2025, comparing concentration across companies, universities, and institutes and labs.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Lianghao Deng — Lacuna lacuna.tiptreesystems.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Qwen3 Technical Report arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Qwen3/README.md at main · QwenLM/Qwen3 · GitHub github.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Qwen3-VL Technical Report arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. [2601.18137] DeepPlanning: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Agentic Planning with Verifiable Constraints arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. DeepPlanning: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Agentic Planning with Verifiable Constraints - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. [2604.10866] OccuBench: Evaluating AI Agents on Real-World Professional Tasks via Language Environment Simulation arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. OccuBench: Evaluating AI Agents on Real-World Professional Tasks gregxmhu.github.io. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  10. E-Commerce Bench: Evaluating LLM Agents on Long-Horizon Autonomous Business Operation arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  11. GitHub - QwenLM/E-CommerceBench github.com. Checked 21 October 2026.