About
I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Houston, advised by Prof. Feng Yan. I received my M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and my B.Eng. from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC).
My research focuses on LLM agents for complex tasks in data science and software engineering. I study how agents learn through reinforcement learning, use tools effectively, and follow instructions throughout multi-step workflows.
My recent work spans training long-horizon coding agents, building data-science agents that adapt their workflows to task characteristics, and developing benchmarks for modeling performance and instruction fidelity. Across these projects, I aim to connect agent training, system design, and evaluation to make agents more capable and reliable in practice.
Feel free to reach out if you are interested in collaboration.
Experience
Snowflake
Research Intern
Bellevue, WAworking on Data Science Agents under the supervision of Yite Wang and Zhewei Yao.
Microsoft
Software Engineer Intern
Suzhou, CNworking on Azure AI Anomaly Detector.
Selected Publications
View All โArctic-SWE: Revisiting the Long Horizon Agent Training by Modeling-System Co-Design
Boyi Liu*, Yite Wang*, Xinyu Lian*, Fan Shu*, Sida Li, Feng Yan, Minjia Zhang, Yuxiong He, Zhewei Yao
Technical Report
Benchmarking Hybrid Deep Research Across Database Querying and Web Search
Ruofan Wu*, Peiran Xu*, Xiaolong Li*, Fan Shu*, Soyoung Yoon, Yite Wang, Xiaodong Yu, Boyi Liu, Feng Yan, Debiao Li, Yuxiong He, Zhewei Yao
Preprint
PRISM-DS: Closing the Task-Profile-to-Skill Loop for Data-Science Agents
Fan Shu, Yite Wang, Ruofan Wu, Boyi Liu, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He, Feng Yan
Preprint
DARE-bench: Evaluating Modeling and Instruction Fidelity of LLMs in Data Science
Fan Shu*, Yite Wang*, Ruofan Wu, Boyi Liu, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He, Feng Yan
ICLR 2026
News
Our work has been accepted by ICLR 2026 ๐ See you in Brazil ๐ง๐ท
Publications
A collection of my research work.
Benchmarking Hybrid Deep Research Across Database Querying and Web Search
Ruofan Wu*, Peiran Xu*, Xiaolong Li*, Fan Shu*, Soyoung Yoon, Yite Wang, Xiaodong Yu, Boyi Liu, Feng Yan, Debiao Li, Yuxiong He, Zhewei Yao
Preprint
PRISM-DS: Closing the Task-Profile-to-Skill Loop for Data-Science Agents
Fan Shu, Yite Wang, Ruofan Wu, Boyi Liu, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He, Feng Yan
Preprint
Bridging Databases and Documents: Data-Algorithm Co-Design for Hybrid Question Answering
Ruofan Wu, Boyi Liu, Fan Shu, Yite Wang, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He, Feng Yan
COLM 2026
DARE-bench: Evaluating Modeling and Instruction Fidelity of LLMs in Data Science
Fan Shu*, Yite Wang*, Ruofan Wu, Boyi Liu, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He, Feng Yan
ICLR 2026
Composerag: A modular and composable rag for corpus-grounded multi-hop question answering
Ruofan Wu, Youngwon Lee, Fan Shu, Danmei Xu, Seung-won Hwang, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He, Feng Yan
Preprint
