My name is Yiyang (Ian) Li, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. My advisor is Prof. Yanfang (Fanny) Ye. Before joining Notre Dame, I received my B.E. degree in Artificial Intelligence from Northeastern University (China) in 2024.

My research focuses on agentic AI systems, with the goal of building agents that can reason, act, adapt, and collaborate effectively in complex, real-world environments. I am particularly interested in self-evolving agents and agent harnessing, including how agents can improve themselves over time and how they can be effectively guided, equipped, and deployed for knowledge-intensive tasks. For more details, please check my CV here.