- 🎓 M.S. student in Intelligent Information Systems (MIIS) at CMU LTI (2025-2027)
- 💡 Dual B.S. from UIUC & ZJU in Computer and Electronics Engineering
- 🧠 Passionate about LLMs, long-context reasoning, and reinforcement learning
- 🛠️ Previously interned at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) — worked on LongRoPE2 (ICML'25) and LoongRL (ICLR'26 Oral) for long-context LLM reasoning
- 🔬 Currently working on SWE-Bench code-generation agents with Prof. Lei Li's lab at CMU
- 📫 Reach me: gaokaiz2@andrew.cmu.edu
- 🧾 LongRoPE2 — Extended LLM context to 128K tokens with >98.5% short-context retention (ICML 2025)
- 🚀 LoongRL — RL framework enabling 7B models to outperform 32B LRMs on 100k-200k token reasoning (ICLR 2026 Oral)
- 🐒 Stochastic Monkeys — Robustness benchmarking of LLM safety alignment
