YIFAN LI

👩‍🎓Student @University of Washington & @ Tsinghua University; 🤖Machine Learning Engineer and Research Scientist experience; ⛵Looking for opportunities in Seattle or The Bay.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

About

Welcome to my profile! 🎓 I’m Yifan, a dual master’s student at University of Washington and Tsinghua University. 🏆My research spans LLM Reasoning and Multimodal AI, and I’m constantly inspired by the intersection of technology and its societal impact. 🤸Outside of my academic pursuits, I enjoy the mental and physical challenges of bouldering, top roping, sailing, and hiking. ✨If you're curious about my research or share similar hobbies, feel free to connect!

Experience

  • Software Engineer (AI/ML) at KLA
    Jun 2025 - Oct 2025 · 5 mos

    RAG, Post-training, GRPO, Root cause analysis

  • vLLM Contributor at vLLM
    May 2025 - Sep 2025 · 5 mos

    LLM inference, Sentence Transformer

  • Grader at Machine Learning Methods and AI at University of Washington
    Dec 2024 - Mar 2025 · 4 mos

  • Research Scientist at 百度（Baidu）
    Jun 2024 - Oct 2024 · 5 mos

    Code agent, Workflow generation, Post-training

  • Machine Learning Engineer at PixVerse
    Feb 2024 - Jun 2024 · 5 mos

    Video generation, controllable generation