Improving the academic workflow: Introducing two AI agents for better figures and peer review
Improving the academic workflow: Introducing two AI agents for better figures and peer review April 8, 2026 Jinsung Yoon, Research Scientist, and Tomas Pfister, Director, Google Cloud Introducing two AI agents to streamline academic research. These include: PaperVizAgent, a visualizer agent for drawing academic figures, and ScholarPeer, a reviewer agent that automatically and rigorously evaluates academic papers. Quick links PaperVizAgent paper PaperVizAgent code ScholarPeer paper Share Copy link × Academic research is evolving at an unprecedented pace driven by the
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