Fan Shu

Fan Shu

Ph.D. Student in CS

University of Houston

Research Interests

Agent Training & Reinforcement Learning
Data Science & Coding Agents
Agent Evaluation & Benchmarks

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

Snowflake

Aug 2025 - Present

Research Intern

Bellevue, WA

working on Data Science Agents under the supervision of Yite Wang and Zhewei Yao.

Microsoft

Microsoft

Mar 2022 - Jun 2022

Software Engineer Intern

Suzhou, CN

working on Azure AI Anomaly Detector.

Selected Publications

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Arctic-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

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Our work has been accepted by ICLR 2026 ๐ŸŽ‰ See you in Brazil ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท

Publications

A collection of my research work.

Arctic-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

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