Yuxuan Li 李宇轩

I'm a second-year PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) within Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)'s School of Computer Science, advised by Hirokazu Shirado and Sauvik Das.

Humans are increasingly delegating agency to AI. We are heading toward a future in which personal agents act on our behalf in social settings, creating a society of agents. I study how to build socially intelligent AI agents for that future—and how agent societies today can help us understand and improve human society.

Build for an agent-native future: Evaluating and improving the social intelligence of AI agents
ICML'26 EMNLP'25 Oral FAccT'25
Use that future today: Using multi-agent simulations to model social dynamics and inform real-world practice
TOCHI Submission UIST'26 Submission CCS'26 Submission PoliSim@CHI'26

I hold a BS in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, advised by Chun Yu and Yuanchun Shi. I was also a research intern at UC Berkeley, advised by Coye Cheshire. My research has received extensive media coverage and led to invited talks at institutions such as CMU, Georgia Tech, Tsinghua, HKU and Microsoft.

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I will be joining Microsoft Research AI Frontiers this summer as a Research Intern.