runhao li

Runhao Li

I am a master's student in Computer Science (AI) at the University of Southern California, graduating in May 2027.

I build and evaluate LLMs and agents. My interests include reliable agent systems, model alignment, diffusion language models, and physical reasoning.

Previously, I worked on machine learning at TikTok, General Motors, and Shanghai AI Laboratory, with research experience at Princeton and UC Berkeley.

Runhao Li's GitHub avatar, a red cartoon fox

Seeking 2027 opportunities in software engineering (AI/ML) and machine learning engineering.

research

I am interested in how models learn, reason, and act reliably — from better training signals to agents that understand the world around them.

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experience

TikTok · ML Engineer Intern

Post-training, multimodal moderation, and agent tooling for case replay and hard-example collection.

Princeton University · Research Assistant

Causal evaluation and credit assignment for preventive actions in LLM agents.

General Motors · ML Engineer Intern

Hybrid attention and confidence-aware decoding for pretrained diffusion language models.

UC Berkeley · Research Assistant

Data-centric alignment through multi-evaluator agreement and preference optimization.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · ML Engineer Intern

Agent orchestration, retrieval, and efficient vision-language model serving.

open-source projects

  • ACM-ICLCalibrated multi-agent reasoning and vLLM multi-LoRA serving.
  • latent-agent-teamLearned latent channels for budgeted communication between agents.
  • paper_readResearch workflows and citation-verification tools.
More projects
  • RAMTLShared-backbone, multi-role tool use.
  • updr-reasoningUncertainty-guided debate and self-repair.
  • DEAMSAlignment across heterogeneous vision-language agents.
  • PAGCGrounded communication in cooperative multi-agent learning.
  • KTM-WMKernel-based world models for agent planning.

education

University of Southern California

M.S. Computer Science · AI Track · 2025–2027

Hong Kong Baptist University

B.S. Computer Science (Honors) · 2021–2025