RD-Agent

Jun 1, 2024 · 1 min read
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🔬 Role: Core Founding Member & Primary Coder (two first-author papers)

Automates the R&D pipeline — from idea generation to experiment verification to result analysis — for data-centric AI in data science and finance scenarios.

Key Highlights:

  • 🌟 12,100+ GitHub Stars
  • 🎤 Featured in Microsoft Build 2025 Global Keynote
  • 🥇 #1 on MLEBench (OpenAI’s Kaggle agent benchmark) at release
  • 📄 Two first-author papers as primary coder since project launch
Haotian Chen
Authors
Assistant Researcher
Haotian Chen is an Assistant Researcher at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, working with Prof. Junchi Yan at RethinkLab. His research goal is to understand and develop AI for automating tasks that require extensive time, effort, and creative thinking. He works on automating data-driven scientific research, contributing to both alleviating the burden on humans and revolutionizing human productivity. His research focuses on Autonomous Agents, Large Language Models, and AI4Research. He received his PhD in Data Science from Fudan University and completed postdoctoral research at Tsinghua University (THUNLP), where he worked with Prof. Zhiyuan Liu and Prof. Maosong Sun. He was also a research intern at Microsoft Research Asia, where the RD-Agent project he co-developed was featured in the Microsoft Build 2025 Global Keynote.