About

I am a final-year undergraduate majoring in Computer Science at Northwestern University, and I am interested in building and understanding agentic systems, with a focus on LLM reasoning and multimodal perception.

Starting from the past summer, I am fortunate to work as a research assistant at TTIC, supervised by Prof. Zhewei Sun. I also serve as a member of LingMechLab and MLL-Lab at Northwestern, mentored by the gorgeous Qingcheng Zeng and Zihan Wang, respectively.

Publications

Conference Papers

The Pragmatic Mind of Machines: Tracing the Emergence of Pragmatic Competence in Large Language Models
Kefan Yu, Qingcheng Zeng, Weihao Xuan, Wanxin Li, Jingyi Wu, Rob Voigt
EACL main conference, 2026. [Paper]
Also presented at COLM 2025 Workshop: PragLM

Preprints

RAGEN: Understanding Self-Evolution in LLM Agents via Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
Zihan Wang, Kangrui Wang, Qineng Wang, Pingyue Zhang, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Xing Jin, Kefan Yu, Minh Nhat Nguyen, Licheng Liu, Eli Gottlieb, Yiping Lu, Kyunghyun Cho, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li
arXiv preprint, 2025. [Paper]

Miscellanea

I do some workouts, watch some anime, and listen to some JPOP.

Would greatly appreciate if you check ずっと真夜中でいいのに。(ZUTOMAYO) out.


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