Hi 👋! I am Yuangang Li, a PhD student at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Cristina (Crista) Lopes. My research focuses on trustworthy LLMs, LLM reasoning, and scalable AI/agent evaluation, with a particular interest in LLM transparency and code generation explainability.

Currently, I am a Machine Learning Research Intern at Kilby Labs, Texas Instruments, on the Generative AI team, working on coding agents and agentic AI systems for complex task automation. I am also a research collaborator with the Stanford team behind Terminal-Bench and Harbor, and a Core Contributor to the open-source agent evaluation ecosystem.

Before my PhD study at UCI, I spent wonderful years at the University of Southern California, completing my Master’s degree and working with Prof. Yue Zhao. During that time, I also had the pleasure of collaborating with Prof. Xiyang Hu and Prof. Jiechao Gao.