AI researcher · builder · founder

Shaoxu Sun

Ph.D. student at the USTC Lab for Data Science, jointly trained with Zhongguancun Academy in Beijing.

I work on AI agents, token-efficient AI systems, and the economics of foundation-model services—with a strong interest in turning research ideas into useful products.

Portrait of Shaoxu Sun
Researching agents. Building AI products.

Research with a builder’s mindset.

I am interested in how intelligent systems can plan, collaborate, use tools, and allocate model resources under real cost and performance constraints. My current work sits at the intersection of agentic AI, efficient foundation-model systems, and model-service economics.

Outside research, I enjoy building and shipping products. I founded TokenLab, and I am especially drawn to entrepreneurship where infrastructure, AI capability, and user experience meet.

What I think about.

01

AI Agents

Planning, tool use, multi-agent collaboration, memory, reliability, and long-running agent workflows.

02

Token-efficient AI Systems

Token budgeting, accounting, caching, context management, and system design that improves capability per unit cost.

03

Model & Resource Routing

Adaptive selection across heterogeneous models and resources under quality, latency, and cost constraints.

04

Broader Interests

Multimodal intelligence, reinforcement learning, retrieval-augmented systems, and scalable AI services.

Research, infrastructure, and products.

More on GitHub ↗

TokenLab

AI model access and infrastructure for developers, built around practical model usage, token-aware metering, routing, and reliable developer workflows.

TokenLab reflects my interest in the real economics of foundation models: how tokens are measured, priced, routed, and turned into dependable AI products.

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Agent infrastructureOpen source

CiwardClaw

A personal OpenClaw fork focused on agent reliability, provider compatibility, routing, recovery, and cost guardrails across real-world workflows.

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ResearchModel routing

DMR4Rec

Dynamic model routing for sequential recommendation, exploring instance-level routing across heterogeneous recommendation architectures.

Research project
RAGApplied AI

Campus Q&A

A retrieval-augmented question-answering system for campus knowledge, combining practical retrieval, generation, and product engineering.

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Background.

Current

University of Science and Technology of China

Ph.D. student · USTC Lab for Data Science

Joint training program with Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing

2021–2025

Shandong University

B.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence

School of Computer Science and Technology

Notes from building and learning.

The original blog is preserved as an archive of technical notes, course projects, experiments, and things I learned along the way.

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Research, products, or something worth building?

Feel free to reach out.