About
Hello! My name is Fenghai Li. I am a junior majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I am currently a visiting research intern at the SALT Lab, working with Prof. Diyi Yang's group under the mentorship of Yanzhe Zhang. Previously, I was a research intern at the U Lab with Prof. Jiaxuan You, mentored by Haofei Yu. I have also worked on Human-AI Interaction under the mentorship of Zijian Ding.
I'm always enthusiastic about collaborating with researchers from diverse fields. If you're interested in working together, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Research Interests
Human-AI Interaction. Develop new interfaces and systems for people to better interact with language agents; enable intuitive, mixed-initiative interaction between humans and agents; build AI that amplifies humans' capabilities in thinking and collaborating.
Language Agents. Build autonomous agents that can reason, plan, and act reliably; make language agents more controllable and composable; advance agents for open-ended, high-stakes tasks such as scientific research and financial decision-making.
Publications
ResearchCube: Multi-Dimensional Trade-off Exploration for Research Ideation
Zijian Ding, Fenghai Li, Ziyi Wang, and Joel Chan
Under review
LiveTradeBench: Seeking Real-World Alpha with Large Language Models
Haofei Yu, Fenghai Li, and Jiaxuan You
Preprint 2025
TinyScientist: An Interactive, Extensible, and Controllable Framework for Building Research Agents
Haofei Yu*, Keyang Xuan*, Fenghai Li*, Kunlun Zhu, Zijie Lei, Jiaxun Zhang, Ziheng Qi, Kyle Richardson, and Jiaxuan You (*Core Contributors)
The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'25), System Demonstrations
Towards Conceptual Direct Manipulation: Drag-Based Research Ideation, Evaluation and Evolution
Zijian Ding, Fenghai Li, Haofei Yu, and Joel Chan
Adjunct Proceedings of the 2025 Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'25 Poster), 2025
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