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Haitao Li 李海涛

>Ph.D. @ Tsinghua_

Ph.D. student @ Tsinghua University (THUIR). I build capable, autonomous code agents — from the data that trains them to the rewards that guide them.

// 01 about

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student at THUIR, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Yiqun Liu. My research centers on building capable, autonomous code agents — spanning the full stack from training data and long-horizon reinforcement learning to reward modeling. I'm always happy to connect and collaborate with fellow researchers and engineers.

// 02 experience

  • Moonshot AI Kimi Research Intern

    Optimized agentic coding capabilities for Kimi K2.5 / K2.6, with a focus on improving real-world user experience.

  • Zhipu AI 智谱 Research Intern

    Contributed to the R&D of math reasoning capabilities for the GLM-4.5 / 4.6 / 4.7 models.

  • LegalOne R&D Lead

    Led the end-to-end R&D of LegalOne, owning the full development process.

// 03 research

01

Code Agents

Building autonomous agents that understand, navigate, and modify large real-world codebases end to end.

02

Long-Horizon RL

Reinforcement learning that strengthens agents' long-horizon abilities — multi-step planning, sustained reasoning, and reliable task execution.

03

Information Retrieval

Dense retrieval, ranking, and retrieval-augmented generation — connecting models to the right knowledge at scale.

04

Reward Modeling

Designing reliable reward models and verifiers to guide, evaluate, and continually improve agent behavior.

// 04 publications

Full publication list on Google Scholar

Peer-reviewed papers across LLMs, agents, evaluation, and information retrieval.

→ google scholar

// 05 news

  • 2025

    Honored to receive the China National Scholarship, CAST Young Talent Development Program (PhD Track), and Tsinghua University Tanzen Scholar (15 recipients university-wide).

  • 2024.12

    Awarded the Shimo Zhong Scholarship, the highest honor in the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University (6 students per year).

  • 2024.06

    Received the Siebel Scholars Award, given annually to only 83 scholars worldwide. Details.

// 06 honors & awards

China National Scholarship · 2025/2023/2020 CAST Young Talent Program · PhD Track · 2025 Tsinghua Tanzen Scholar · 2025 Shimo Zhong Scholarship · 1/6 · 2024 Siebel Scholars Award · 1/83 worldwide · 2024 Outstanding Contribution · Beijing Winter Olympics · 2022 Self-improvement Star of Chinese College Students · 2022 Excellent Graduate of Beijing · 2022 Xiaomi Scholarship · Special Award · 2021 Huawei Intelligent Pedestal Scholarship · 2021 Shen Yuan Medal · highest undergrad honor · 2021 Role Model of BUAA · 2021 Challenge Cup · First Prize Beijing · 2021 IC Design Competition · First Prize · 2021 MCM · Finalist · top 1% worldwide · 2020 CUMCM · National Second Prize · 2020

// 07 education

  • 2022 — now
    Tsinghua University Ph.D.

    Computer Science and Technology

  • 2018 — 2022
    Beihang University BUAA B.S. · Minor in Math

    Electronic Engineering, with a minor in Mathematics