I am a Ph.D. student at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), currently a research intern with the Visual Computing Group at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA).

My current research focuses on agentic data: data and executable environments that let AI agents act. My earlier work spans data optimization, including dataset distillation and dataset pruning, as well as adversarial attacks on large vision-language models.

• Agentic Data: data synthesis and executable environments for computer-use and tool-using agents
• Data-Centric AI: dataset pruning, dataset distillation, and data-efficient training
• Adversarial Robustness: transferable black-box attacks on large vision-language models

A full and up-to-date list is on my Google Scholar.

• Pushing the Frontier of Black-Box LVLM Attacks via Fine-Grained Detail Targeting (M-Attack v2)
  Xiaohan Zhao, Zhaoyi Li, Yaxin Luo, Jiacheng Cui, Zhiqiang Shen
  arXiv preprint, 2026 · Paper

• Exploring 3D Dataset Pruning
  Xiaohan Zhao, Xinyi Shang, Jiacheng Liu, Zhiqiang Shen
  arXiv preprint, 2026 · Paper · Code

• Covering Human Action Space for Computer Use: Data Synthesis and Benchmark
  Miaosen Zhang, Xiaohan Zhao, Zhihong Tan, et al.
  arXiv preprint, 2026 · Paper

• A Frustratingly Simple Yet Highly Effective Attack Baseline: Over 90% Success Rate Against the Strong Black-Box Models of GPT-4.5/4o/o1 (M-Attack v1)
  Zhaoyi Li^*, Xiaohan Zhao^*, Dong-Dong Wu, Jiacheng Cui, Zhiqiang Shen
  arXiv preprint, 2025 · Paper · Code
  _{^* Equal contribution.}

• Dive into Claude Code
  A systematic analysis of Claude Code and its design lessons for AI agent systems.
• FigMirror
  Plots new data in the style of a reference figure and returns editable Matplotlib code.
• M-Attack v1
  Official code for a transferable black-box attack on large vision-language models.
• 3D-Dataset-Pruning
  Official code for Exploring 3D Dataset Pruning, with representation-aware point-cloud selection.

• Microsoft Research Asia, Research Intern, Visual Computing Group

• Ph.D. Student, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
• Bachelor's degree, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST)

• Email: xiaohan.zhao@mbzuai.ac.ae
• Google Scholar: PliLuD4AAAAJ