πΊοΈ About Me
Hi, Iβm Songyang Peng. My research interests include Machine Learning System, Agentic AI, and AI System Security.
I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara advised by Wenbo Guo. I received my M.S. in Computer Science from Fudan University, where I worked mainly under the guidance of Jiarun Dai and Yuan Zhang. I received my B.S. in Computer Science (Qiushi Class) from Tianjin University, where I was advised by Yu Mei.
Previously, I worked as a LLM Inference Engineer Intern at ByteDance, Ark, mentored by Meng Wang, contributing to high-performance LLM serving and agent infrastructure. Before that, I was an AI Research Intern at Tencent, IEG.
π Experiences
University of California, Santa Barbara
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Advisor: Wenbo Guo
2026.09 β Now
Tencent IEG
AI Research Intern, Game & Engine Intelligence
2024.12 β 2025.03
π₯ News
- 2026.09 π Started my Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara, working with Prof. Wenbo Guo. Excited for the journey ahead!
- 2026.09 π BHUNTER was accepted by ACM TOSEM on generating blind-spot driving scenarios for robustness testing of perception systems.
- 2026.08 π€ I will give an Oral talk at KDD 2026 on Amour. See you in Jeju! π
- 2026.07 π LawSentry was accepted by IEEE TIFS on LLM-empowered oracle generation for logical flaw detection in autonomous driving.
- 2026.07 π₯ I will attend ICML 2026 with my co-authors on Darwinian Memory. See you in Seoul! ποΈ
- 2026.05 π I successfully defended my masterβs thesis and graduated! Thanks to my advisor Prof. Jiarun Dai! π
- 2026.05 π§ Served as a reviewer for the Second Workshop on Agents in the Wild: Safety, Security, and Beyond at ICML 2026.
- 2026.03 π Accepted to the Computer Science Ph.D. program at University of California, Santa Barbara, where I will join Wenbo Guoβs group. See you in Santa Barbara! π
- 2026 π One paper accepted by ICML 2026 on Darwinian memory for GUI agent evolution.
- 2025 π One paper accepted by USENIX Security 2026 on agent-based DoS attacks.
- 2025.04 π Started as LLM Inference Engineer Intern at ByteDance.
- 2024.12 π Selected for Tencentβs Game-Engine Computer Graphics Practice Elite Talent Program as an AI Research Intern.
- 2024 π One paper accepted by USENIX VehicleSec 2026 on fuzzing-based testing for autonomous driving.
π Publications * Equal contribution (Co-first authors).
Amour: A Latent Dynamical System for Controllable and Stateful Social Interaction in LLMs
KDD 2026 Workshop on SciSoc Agents & LLMs (Oral); manuscript under review.
Darwinian Memory: A Training-Free Self-Regulating Memory System for GUI Agent Evolution
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.
Facilitating Logical Flaw Detection for Autonomous Driving Systems through LLM-Empowered Oracle Generation
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2026.
π Awards
- 2023, Outstanding Graduate, Tianjin University.
- 2021, Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) Honorable Mention.
- 2020, 1st Prize in China Collegiate Intelligent Robot Innovation Competition.
π€ Professional Service
- Workshop reviewer, Agents in the Wild (ICML 2026), May 2026.