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Pengsong Zhang

Ph.D. Candiate
University of Toronto
pengsong.zhang (at) mail.utoronto.ca


Bio

I am currently a Ph.D. Candiate in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at University of Toronto. I am fortunate to work with Prof. Xinyu Liu.

My research lies at the intersection of robotics and artificial intelligence –with a special focus on automated scientific discovery. My research interests include Robot Scientists， AI Scientists， Computer vision, 3D reconstruction, Generative models, Reinforcement learning, LLM agents, and AI4S.

Publications [Google Scholar][DBLP]

  1. BMF
    Synergy of robotics and microfluidics for intelligent micro- and nanomanipulation
    Mengmeng Xi*, Pengsong Zhang*, Junyue Dai, Jia Shi, Haoran Cui, Bowen Wang, Junhui Zhu, Peng PAN, Xinyu Liu
    (* Equal contribution)
    Biomicrofluidics (BMF), 19, 051301, 2025.
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  2. arXiv
    aiXiv: A Next-Generation Open Access Ecosystem for Scientific Discovery Generated by AI Scientists
    Pengsong Zhang, Xiang Hu, Guowei Huang, Yang Qi, Heng Zhang, Xiuxu Li, Jiaxing Song, Jiabin Luo, Yijiang Li, Shuo Yin, Chengxiao Dai, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Xiaoyan Zhou, Zhenfei Yin, Boqin Yuan, Jing Dong, Guinan Su, Guanren Qiao, Haiming Tang, Anghong Du, Lili Pan, Zhenzhong Lan, Xinyu Liu
    Preprint (arXiv), arXiv:2508.15126, 2025.
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  3. arXiv
    Scaling Laws in Scientific Discovery with AI and Robot Scientists
    Pengsong Zhang, Heng Zhang, Huazhe Xu, Renjun Xu, Zhenting Wang, Cong Wang, Animesh Garg, Zhibin Li, Arash Ajoudani, Xinyu Liu
    Preprint (arXiv), arXiv:2503.22444, 2025.
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  4. NC
    Robotic microinjection enables large-scale transgenic studies of Caenorhabditis elegans
    Peng Pan, Michael Zoberman, Pengsong Zhang et al.
    Nature Communications (NC), 15, Article number 8848, 2024.

  5. Research
    High-Resolution Imaging and Morphological Phenotyping of C. elegans through Stable Robotic Sample Rotation and Artificial Intelligence-Based 3-Dimensional Reconstruction
    Peng Pan*, Pengsong Zhang*, Sharanja Premachandran et al.
    (* Equal contribution)
    Science Partner Journal (Research), Vol 7, Article ID 0513, 2024.

  6. TIE
    Novel coil array design and modeling for independent control of multiple magnetic microrobots
    Guangming Cui, Pengsong Zhang, Xinyu Liu, Linbo Xie, Wentao Huang, Peng Pan, Juntian Qu, Qigao Fan
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE), Volume 70, Number 10, 2022.
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  7. TMAG
    Dynamic magnetic field generation with high accuracy modeling applied to magnetic robots
    Qigao Fan, Pengsong Zhang, Juntian Qu, Wentao Huang, Xinyu Liu, Linbo Xie
    ( Corresponding author)
    IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (TMAG), Volume 57, Number 7, 2021.
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  8. CSME
    Boundary-free Robots
    Pengsong Zhang, Peng Pan, Shaojia Wang, Runze Zuo, Tiancong Wang, Wentian Tang, Yuhang Wang, Mingzhe Sun, Qiwu Zhang, Yuxiao Zhou, Yu Sun, Xinyu Liu
    Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), ID 241, 2024.

  9. SA
    3D microrobot (xxx)
    Pengsong Zhang, (xxx)
    Science Advances (SA) 2024 Submitted.

  10. Preprint
    Autonomous Generalist Scientist - Towards and Beyond Human-level Automatic Research Using Foundation Model-Based AI Agents and Robots (A Position)
    Pengsong Zhang, Alfredo Pearson, Zhenting Wang
    Researchgate, 2024.
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  11. Github
    Awesome AI Scientist Papers
    Pengsong Zhang, Heng Zhang
    A collection of important papers to the field of AI Scientist and Robot Scientist, Github Repos, 2024.

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Address: 5 King's College Rd, Toronto, ON M5S 3G8
Office Location: MB75
Email: pengsong.zhang (at) mail.utoronto.ca
Phone: (647) 269-61xx



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