Yichen Li

Research Scientist @ Tencent Hunyuan

I am a research scientist in the Tencent Hunyuan agentic training team. Before that, I received my Ph.D. at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, under the supervision of Prof. Michael R. Lyu. Previously, I received my Bachelor's degree in Information Security from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2021.

I work on agentic training of foundation models. I love reading trajectories as models learn.

Yichen Li

Vitæ

2026 2026.03 — Present
Tencent Hunyuan Research Scientist, agentic training · Shenzhen, China
2026.08
Hy4-preview
2026.07
Hy3
2026.04
Hy3-preview
2021 2021.08 — 2025.10
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Ph.D., advised by Prof. Michael R. Lyu · Hong Kong
2024.11 — 2025.10
ByteBrain @ ByteDance Research Intern · China
2024.06 — 2024.09
Azure Systems Research @ Microsoft Research Research Intern · Redmond, US
2022.04 — 2022.07
DKI @ Microsoft Research Asia Research Intern · China
2017 2017.09 — 2021.06
Huazhong University of Science and Technology B.Eng., Information Security · Wuhan, China
2020.11 — 2021.06
DKI @ Microsoft Research Asia Research Intern · China

Honors & Awards

  • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award 2025
  • National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the P.R. China 2021
  • National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the P.R. China 2020
  • Star of Tomorrow, Microsoft Research Asia

Services

Program Committee
  • 2026: AAAI'26, APSEC'26, ISSRE'26 (Industry Track), AIWare'26 (Dataset Track)
  • 2025: ISSRE'25, EuroSys'26 (Shadow PC), APSEC'25, FORGE'26, MSR'25 (Junior PC)
  • 2024: ISSRE'24 (Fast Abstract Track)
Review Committee
  • TOSEM (2025, 2026)
Reviewer
  • TOSEM, TSE, CSUR, TIFS, IoTJ, TR, EMSE
Sub-Reviewer
  • 2025: ATC
  • 2024: FSE, ISSTA, ISSRE
  • 2023: DSN, FSE, ISSRE, ICPE
  • 2022: FSE, ISSRE
  • 2021: DSN, ICSE