Wenbo (Vito) Zhu

About Me

Hello! I’m Wenbo (Vito) Zhu, currently the Founding AI Lead & Head of AI Research at OpusClip.
I joined when the team had around 5 engineers, failed and pivoted, and now lead a 30+ cross-functional AI team delivering next-generation multimodal and generative video products.
I initiated, led, and shipped several flagship systems, including:

• OpusClip – No.1 AI Clipping Tool in the market
• ClipAnything – First multi-modal clipping tool with prompting capabilities
• Agent Opus – First video agent tailored for social media

Before OpusClip, I was a Senior ML Engineer at ByteDance/TikTok, where I served as a founding engineer of Gauthmath — building the world’s first AI-based geometry solver with 100M+ downloads.
Earlier, as a Research Scientist at Cloudwalk Technology, I developed a billion-scale face clustering engine deployed across 10+ cities (patented).

• Recognition: Both OpusClip and Gauthmath were recognized by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) as Top 50 GenAI Apps.
• Leadership: I founded the Opus AI Research Team, the research team at OpusClip.
• Collaboration: I work with Prof. Xu Yang on multimodal video intelligence and robust vision-language alignment.
• Education: I hold a Master (OR) from UC Berkeley and an Undergrad (IE & Math) from Beihang University.

Career

• [2022–Present] Serving as Founding AI Lead & Head of AI Research at OpusClip
• [2020–2022] Joined ByteDance/TikTok as a Senior ML Engineer
• [2019–2020] Started as a Research Scientist at Cloudwalk Technology

Research Interests

• Multimodal Video Intelligence: understanding, reasoning, and editing for video content
• Agentic Systems: LLM-based planning, tool use, and evaluation frameworks
• Generative Media: automatic video repurposing and multimodal content creation

News

• [Jan. 2026] One paper is accepted by ICLR 2026.
• [Sept 2025] Two papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025.
• [May 2025] One paper accepted to ACL 2025.
• [Feb 2025] Two papers accepted to CVPR 2025, including One Highlight.
• [Jan 2025] One journal paper accepted to BIT
• [Dec 2024] Two papers accepted to AAAI 2025.
• [Nov 2024] Co-authored an article with Google AI team on Gemini Flash:
  “OpusClip achieves 30% cost savings with Gemini Flash” (Google AI Showcase).
• [Feb 2024] One journal paper accepted to IJHCI

Publications

Competition & Awards

• [Oct 2025] 🥈 2nd Place – Perception Test Challenge 2025 (Task 5: Hour-Long Video QA)
• [Aug 2025] 🥉 3rd Place – CVPR 2025 SoccerNet Challenge (Multi-View Foul Recognition)
• [Jun 2025] 🥇 1st Place – CVPR 2025 VidLLMs Challenge (Multilingual Video Reasoning)
• [Jun 2025] 🥈 2nd Place – CVPR 2025 VidLLMs Challenge (Complex Video Reasoning & Robustness)
• [Oct 2024] 🏆 Winner – ECCV 2024 Perception Challenge (Hour-Long Video QA Track)
• [Jun 2024] 🏆 Winner – CVPR 2024 LOVEU Workshop (Long-Term Video QA Track)
• [2020] 🥈 Kaggle ASHRAE Great Energy Predictor III – Silver Medal (Top 2%)

Services

Conference Reviewers

• IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026
• European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026
• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2025

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