Terry Yue Zhuo

Career

Zhuo worked on code intelligence during a PhD at Monash University and has spent time at Amazon AWS AI, ByteDance, Sea AI Lab and CSIRO's Data61. Zhuo later was a research lead at Alibaba Qwen, founding the Qwen Cyber team and leading training of language models with cyber capabilities. Zhuo's site lists current interests in frontier AI risks and dual-use capabilities.¹

Research

Through the BigCode collaboration Zhuo was first author of BigCodeBench (2024), presented at ICLR 2025, and a co-author of StarCoder 2 (2024). Earlier single-author work includes ICE-Score (2023), on instructing LLMs to evaluate code, and later work includes Cyber-Zero (2025) and CTF-Dojo (2025), on training cybersecurity agents.²¹³⁴⁵⁶

Work and contributions

• BigCodeBench Open data

  First author of "BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructions" (2024), the paper that introduced the benchmark.²¹

• StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2 Open weights

  Co-author of the StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2 paper (2024), which introduced the StarCoder2 models.³

Timeline

1. Apr 2023Posted "ICE-Score, Instructing Large Language Models to Evaluate Code" as sole author.⁴
2. Feb 2024Co-authored the StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2 paper.³
3. Jun 2024Posted the BigCodeBench paper as first author.²
4. Jul 2025Posted "Cyber-Zero, Training Cybersecurity Agents without Runtime" as first author.⁵
5. Aug 2025Posted "Training Language Model Agents to Find Vulnerabilities with CTF-Dojo" as first author.⁶

Documented roles

The sources do not confirm a current role; these are the roles they document.

• Research lead; founded the Qwen Cyber team, Alibaba Qwen¹
• PhD researcher in code intelligence, Monash University¹

Honors and recognition

• IBM PhD Fellowship Award · IBM¹
• DAAD AInet Fellowship · German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)¹
• ML and Systems Rising Stars · MLCommons¹

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