By Aisha Down
Publication Date: 2025-12-06 15:00:00
A single person says he has authored 113 scientific papers on artificial intelligence this year, 89 of which will be presented this week at one of the world’s leading AI and machine learning conferences, raising questions among computer scientists about the state of AI research.
The author, Kevin Zhu, recently completed a bachelor’s degree in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and now runs Algoverse, an AI research and mentoring company for high school students – many of whom are his co-authors of papers. Zhu himself graduated from high school in 2018.
The work he has published in the last two years covers topics such as using AI to locate nomadic herders in sub-Saharan Africa, assess skin lesions, and translate Indonesian dialects. On his LinkedIn, he promotes publishing “over 100 top conference papers in the past year” that have been “cited by OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Stanford, MIT, Oxford and others.”
Zhu’s papers are a…
