Jenny Zhang

I am Jenny Zhang, currently pursuing my PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the University of British Columbia (supervised by Jeff Clune) and a graduate student at the Vector Institute. Previously, I was a research scientist intern at Meta and completed my undergraduate studies at Imperial College London. My research focuses on Reinforcement Learning, Self-Improving AI, and Open-Endedness.

I have two official first names: Jenny (English) and Zhuoting (Chinese).

Selected Publications

Hyperagents

Jenny Zhang, Bingchen Zhao, Wannan Yang, Jakob Foerster, Jeff Clune, Minqi Jiang, Sam Devlin, Tatiana Shavrina

2026

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Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents

Jenny Zhang *, Shengran Hu *, Cong Lu, Robert Lange +, Jeff Clune +

ICLR 2026

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OMNI-EPIC: Open-endedness via Models of human Notions of Interestingness with Environments Programmed in Code

Maxence Faldor *, Jenny Zhang *, Antoine Cully +, Jeff Clune +

ICLR 2025

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OMNI: Open-endedness via models of human notions of interestingness

Jenny Zhang, Joel Lehman, Kenneth Stanley, Jeff Clune

ICLR 2024, NeurIPS 2023 ALOE Workshop Spotlight

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Quality-Diversity through AI Feedback

Herbie Bradley *, Andrew Dai *, Hannah Teufel, Jenny Zhang, Koen Oostermeijer, Marco Bellagente, Jeff Clune, Kenneth Stanley, Grégory Schott, Joel Lehman

ICLR 2024

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Quality Diversity through Human Feedback

Li Ding, Jenny Zhang, Jeff Clune, Lee Spector, Joel Lehman

ICML 2024, NeurIPS 2023 ALOE Workshop Spotlight

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Selected Media Coverage

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