Question 1

Who is Yushan Li?

Accepted Answer

Yushan Li does research on agent evals at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) and contributes to Agent Last Exam, a benchmark of long-horizon tasks for frontier computer-use agents submitted to NeurIPS 2026. She was one of five external reviewers of X's open-source recommendation algorithm before launch, and later reverse-engineered two mechanisms in it that suppress in-network content. She was the first junior hire at Eric Schmidt's video AI startup Hooglee, invests with Niche VP, and studies CS and Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley as a Shelby Davis Scholar.

Question 2

What has Yushan Li worked on professionally?

Accepted Answer

At Berkeley AI Research, Yushan Li works on agent evals and contributes to the Agent Last Exam benchmark. She was one of five external reviewers of X's open-source recommendation algorithm, working with X's VP of Product, and her feedback shaped X's Under the Hood transparency tool. As the first junior hire at Hooglee, Eric Schmidt's video AI startup, from seed through Series A, she ran 200 structured user interviews, led 15 growth interns, managed 450+ creators, shipped segmented video search at under 200ms, and won the company hackathon with a user-profiling pipeline that became the foundation of the production recommendation system. As head TA for Berkeley's largest engineering startup bootcamp she mentored 500+ students, and she founded and ran the first Global Student Startup Competition in Korea. She invests with Niche VP and sources deals for Moxxie and Monolith.

Question 3

Where does Yushan Li go to school?

Accepted Answer

Yushan Li attends UC Berkeley, where she is a fourth-year student studying CS and Cognitive Science as a fully funded Shelby Davis Scholar. Before Berkeley, she attended United World College Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she studied Cultural Anthropology.

Question 4

What are Yushan Li's interests and hobbies?

Accepted Answer

Yushan Li figure skates on the UC Berkeley team and is a former national champion in artistic swimming. She paints, and has traveled to more than 20 countries.

Question 5

What is Yushan Li's background?

Accepted Answer

Yushan Li grew up in China and did high school at United World College Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she studied Cultural Anthropology. She is currently at UC Berkeley studying CS and Cognitive Science as a Shelby Davis Scholar. She has been to 20+ countries and is interested in AI, product design, and recommendation systems.

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