Team Match Proposal

Yuangang Li
2026 Summer Internship Match

Ph.D. Student at UCI | Trustworthy AI & Software Engineering

Specializing in Trustworthy LLMs (Causal Reasoning & Hallucination Mitigation) and Efficient ML Infrastructure (Distributed Training & GPU Optimization).Seeking to leverage my research and engineering expertise to solve critical challenges at ByteDance & TikTok.

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Selected Publications

Citations112
h-index5
AAAI 2026Top Tier
Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Language Models via Causal Reasoning
Yuangang Li, et al.

Contribution: Proposed a causal intervention framework to mitigate logical hallucinations in LLMs.

Logical HallucinationCausal ReasoningTrustworthy AI
AAAI 2026Top Tier
Automated Radiology Report Generation with Multimodal RAG

Contribution: Developed a multimodal RAG system for generating accurate radiology reports.

Factual HallucinationMultimodal RAGHealthcare AI
EMNLP 2025Top Tier
NLPADBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for NLP Anomaly Detection
Yuangang Li, et al.

Contribution: Created the first comprehensive benchmark for anomaly detection in NLP tasks.

Anomaly DetectionBenchmark
ACL 2025Top Tier
Benchmarking Large Language Models for Anomaly Detection

Contribution: Evaluated LLMs' capabilities in detecting anomalies across various domains.

BenchmarkAnomaly DetectionLLM

Open Source & Engineering

Harbor (LLM/Agent Evaluation)
293
Creator

A framework for evaluating and optimizing agents and LLMs. Supports parallel experiments in thousands of environments and RL rollout generation.

LLM EvaluationRL OptimizationParallel Computing
Ablator (Distributed ML System)
38
USC Research

A distributed machine learning platform for scalable model training and hyperparameter tuning. Optimized resource scheduling and execution efficiency.

Distributed MLPythonSystem Design
Apache RocketMQ Operator
330
SenseTime Internship

Cloud-native operator for managing RocketMQ clusters on Kubernetes. Implemented CRD logic for automated deployment and scaling.

KubernetesGoOperator SDKCloud Native
25
Total Positions
13
PhD Opportunities
19
High Match Roles
Rank #1High Match
Machine Learning Scientist Intern (TikTok-Content Ecology—LLM application) - 2026 Start (PhD)
8.7
Match Score
San Jose
PhD
Content Ecology Algorithm Team
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL10/10
NLP / LLM10/10
CV7/10
Infra5/10
Key Skills
PythonC++TensorFlowPyTorchMachine Learning+4 more
Rank #2High Match
Research Scientist Intern- (Trust and Safety - CV/NLP/Multimodal LLM) - 2026 Start(PhD)
8.4
Match Score
Seattle
PhD
Trust and Safety
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL10/10
NLP / LLM10/10
CV10/10
Infra5/10
Key Skills
Computer VisionMultimodalityLLMPyTorchTensorFlow
Rank #3High Match
Machine Learning Engineer Intern - TikTok Search Team - 2026 Summer (BS/MS)
8.0
Match Score
San Jose
MS/BS
TikTok Search Engineering Team
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL10/10
NLP / LLM10/10
CV8/10
Infra5/10
Key Skills
Pythonalgorithmdata structureNLPRanking+5 more
Rank #4High Match
Research Intern (AML-Algorithm) - 2026 Start (PhD)
7.6
Match Score
San Jose
PhD
Technology
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL10/10
NLP / LLM9/10
CV7/10
Infra2/10
Key Skills
PythonC++PyTorchTensorFlowMachine Learning+5 more
Rank #5High Match
Student Researcher (Seed - Infra - Inference) - 2026 Start (PhD)
7.6
Match Score
Seattle
PhD
Technology
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL9/10
NLP / LLM7/10
CV3/10
Infra10/10
Key Skills
PythonC++CUDAPyTorchJax+14 more
Rank #6High Match
Student Researcher [Seed LLM Horizon – Async Agent & Proactive Agent] - 2026 Start (PhD)
7.3
Match Score
San Jose
PhD
Technology
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL10/10
NLP / LLM10/10
CV1/10
Infra1/10
Key Skills
Reinforcement LearningLLM agentsmemory systemstool useinteractive learning+1 more
Rank #7High Match
Machine Learning Scientist Intern (TikTok-Recommendation) - 2026 Start (PhD)
7.3
Match Score
San Jose
PhD
Recommendation algorithm
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL10/10
NLP / LLM8/10
CV1/10
Infra5/10
Key Skills
PythonPyTorchTensorFlowDeep LearningMachine Learning+3 more
Rank #8High Match
Machine Learning Scientist Intern - Global E-Commerce Content Recommendation - 2026 Summer (PhD)
7.1
Match Score
Seattle
PhD
Global E-Commerce Content Recommendation
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL10/10
NLP / LLM8/10
CV3/10
Infra5/10
Key Skills
PythonPyTorchTensorFlowC/C++shell programming+2 more
Rank #9High Match
Machine Learning Engineer Intern (Trust and Safety - CV/NLP/Multimodal LLM) - 2026 Summer (BS/MS)
7.0
Match Score
Seattle
MS/BS
Trust and Safety
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL10/10
NLP / LLM10/10
CV10/10
Infra1/10
Key Skills
PythonPyTorchTensorFlowNLPDeep Learning+2 more
Rank #10High Match
Machine Learning Engineer Intern (Privacy and Data Protection Office) - 2026 Start (PhD)
7.0
Match Score
San Jose
PhD
PDPO (Privacy and Data Protection Office)
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL10/10
NLP / LLM9/10
CV1/10
Infra1/10
Key Skills
PythonRJavaC++SQL+8 more
Rank #11High Match
Software Engineer Intern (Applied Machine Learning-Enterprise) - 2026 Summer (BS/MS)
6.6
Match Score
San Jose
BS/MS
Technology
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL9/10
NLP / LLM7/10
CV1/10
Infra7/10
Key Skills
C++PythonGoPyTorchTensorFlow+1 more
Rank #12High Match
Software Engineer Intern (AI Model Optimization) - 2026 Summer (BS/MS)
6.3
Match Score
San Jose
MS/BS
Speech
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL9/10
NLP / LLM7/10
CV3/10
Infra5/10
Key Skills
PythonPyTorchTensorFlowJAXML concepts+4 more
Rank #13High Match
Student Researcher [Seed Vision – World Models for Video Generation] – 2026 Start (PhD)
5.3
Match Score
San Jose
PhD
Technology
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL9/10
NLP / LLM2/10
CV10/10
Infra1/10
Key Skills
Computer VisionMachine Learningvideo generationworld modelsdynamics modeling+4 more
Rank #14High Match
AI Machine Learning Engineer Intern (TikTok Search) - 2026 Start (PhD)
5.3
Match Score
Singapore
PhD
Technology
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL10/10
NLP / LLM10/10
CV9/10
Infra5/10
Key Skills
C++Pythonalgorithmsdata structuresAI+6 more
Rank #15High Match
Machine Learning Engineer Intern (E-commerce-Supply Chain & Logistics) - 2026 Summer (MS)
5.2
Match Score
Seattle
MS/BS
E-commerce Global Supply Chain and Logistics
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL9/10
NLP / LLM7/10
CV1/10
Infra1/10
Key Skills
PythonJavaTensorFlowPyTorchdata mining+3 more
Rank #16High Match
Student Researcher [Seed Vision – Long-Range Video Generation] – 2026 Start (PhD)
5.2
Match Score
San Jose
PhD
Technology
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL10/10
NLP / LLM1/10
CV10/10
Infra1/10
Key Skills
Computer VisionMachine Learninggenerative modelingvideomotion+8 more
Rank #17High Match
Infrastructure Engineer Intern (Compute Infrastructure - Cloud-Native) - 2026 Summer (MS/BS)
4.2
Match Score
Seattle
MS/BS
Technology
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL4/10
NLP / LLM3/10
CV1/10
Infra10/10
Key Skills
PythonJavaGolangC#C+++1 more
Rank #18High Match
Researcher Intern (Virtual Network) - 2026 Start (PhD)
3.5
Match Score
Seattle
PhD
Technology
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL3/10
NLP / LLM1/10
CV1/10
Infra9/10
Key Skills
P4 programmingTofino switchPensando DPUNPL programmingC+3 more
Rank #19High Match
Machine Learning Engineer Intern (Recommendation) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)
3.4
Match Score
Singapore
MS/BS
Technology
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL10/10
NLP / LLM6/10
CV1/10
Infra1/10
Key Skills
Software DevelopmentComputer ScienceComputer Engineeringdata structuresalgorithms+2 more
Rank #20
Software Engineer Intern (Edge Platform) - 2026 Summer (BS/MS)
3.2
Match Score
San Jose
MS/BS
Technology
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL1/10
NLP / LLM1/10
CV1/10
Infra9/10
Key Skills
GoPythonJavaC/C++TCI/IP networking+18 more
Rank #21
Site Reliability Engineer Intern (Traffic Platform) - 2026 Summer (BS/MS)
2.9
Match Score
San Jose
BS/MS
Technology
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL1/10
NLP / LLM1/10
CV1/10
Infra9/10
Key Skills
GoPythonShell scriptGITDocker+7 more
Rank #22
Product Management Project Intern (TikTok- Operations) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)
2.2
Match Score
Seattle
BS/MS/PhD
Global Operations
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL3/10
NLP / LLM2/10
CV1/10
Infra1/10
Key Skills
BusinessStatisticsComputer ScienceData ScienceEngineering+8 more
Rank #23
Cloud Native Observability Management Platform Engineer - Data Infrastructure
1.9
Match Score
Singapore
MS/BS
Technology
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL1/10
NLP / LLM1/10
CV1/10
Infra9/10
Key Skills
GoJavamicroservice frameworks (gin/kitex/Spring)Observability (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK Stack/Jaeger)server-side multi-threading/high concurrency+3 more
Rank #24
Seller Live Analytics Project Intern (TikTok Shop Operations) - 2026 Starts (BS/MS)
1.2
Match Score
New York
MS/BS
TikTok Shop Operations
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL2/10
NLP / LLM1/10
CV1/10
Infra1/10
Key Skills
BusinessLogical ThinkingBusiness AnalysisSystematic ThinkingCritical Thinking+7 more
Rank #25
Creative Product Operations Project Intern (Monetization Product) 2026 Start (BS/MS)
1.0
Match Score
New York
MS/BS
Creative Operations Advertising
Skill Match Breakdown
ML / DL1/10
NLP / LLM1/10
CV1/10
Infra1/10
Key Skills
Excel (pivot tablesVLOOKUP)TableauSQLdigital advertising+1 more