Hello! I’m Tiankai Yang, a second-year PhD student of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC), supervised by Prof. Yue Zhao. Prior, I earned a Master’s degree in Machine Learning and Data Science from USC and a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Nankai University, China.

My research focuses on anomaly detection, diversity in generation, synthetic generation, and trust & safety in large language models and agents.

News

• [02/2026] I will join LinkedIn as an AI/ML Engineer Intern – GenAI this summer. See you in the Bay Area!
• [10/2025] Our paper “AD-AGENT, a multi-agent LLM framework for anomaly detection” has been accepted to IJCNLP-AACL 2025 Findings! See our Preprint.
• [05/2025] Our paper “AD-LLM: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Anomaly Detection” has been accepted to ACL 2025 Findings! See our Preprint.