Background

Positions

2026 — present
Apodex
Lead Scientist
2024 — 2025
Meta Fundamental AI Research (FAIR)
Research Scientist
2022 — 2024
California Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow, advised by Yisong Yue and Pietro Perona

Education

2022
Princeton University
PhD in Computer Science, advised by Jia Deng
2018
University of Michigan
MS in Computer Science and Engineering
2016
Tsinghua University
B.Eng. in Computer Science and B.S. in Mathematics

Publications

Also on Google Scholar. * equal contribution, † equal advising.

COLM 2026
Goedel-Code-Prover: Hierarchical Proof Search for Open State-of-the-Art Code Verification Zenan Li*, Ziran Yang*, Deyuan (Mike) He, Haoyu Zhao, Andrew Zhao, Shange Tang, Kaiyu Yang, Aarti Gupta, Zhendong Su, Chi Jin
ICLR 2026
Lean Finder: Semantic Search for Mathlib That Understands User Intents Jialin Lu, Kye Emond, Kaiyu Yang, Swarat Chaudhuri, Weiran Sun, Wuyang Chen project
ICLR 2026
ProofOptimizer: Training Language Models to Simplify Proofs without Human Demonstrations Alex Gu, Bartosz Piotrowski, Fabian Gloeckle, Kaiyu Yang, Aram Markosyan project · demo
ICLR 2026
Goedel-Prover-V2: Scaling Formal Theorem Proving with Scaffolded Data Synthesis and Self-Correction Yong Lin*, Shange Tang*, Bohan Lyu*, Ziran Yang*, Jui-Hui Chung*, Haoyu Zhao*, Lai Jiang*, Yihan Geng*, Jiawei Ge, Jingruo Sun, Jiayun Wu, Jiri Gesi, Ximing Lu, David Acuna, Kaiyu Yang, Hongzhou Lin*, Yejin Choi, Danqi Chen, Sanjeev Arora, Chi Jin* project · code
ICLR 2026
Verina: Benchmarking Verifiable Code Generation Zhe Ye, Zhengxu Yan, Timothe Kasriel, Jingxuan He, Kaiyu Yang, Dawn Song project · data · code
COLM 2025
Goedel-Prover: A Frontier Model for Open-Source Automated Theorem Proving Yong Lin*, Shange Tang*, Bohan Lyu, Jiayun Wu, Hongzhou Lin, Kaiyu Yang, Jia Li, Mengzhou Xia, Danqi Chen, Sanjeev Arora, Chi Jin project · code
ICML 2025
CACM 2025
Formal Mathematical Reasoning: A New Frontier in AI Kaiyu Yang, Gabriel Poesia, Jingxuan He, Wenda Li, Kristin Lauter, Swarat Chaudhuri, Dawn Song CACM
CAV 2025
PyEuclid: A Versatile Formal Plane Geometry System in Python Zhaoyu Li*, Hangrui Bi*, Jialiang Sun*, Zenan Li, Kaiyu Yang, Xujie Si
ICLR 2025
Proving Olympiad Inequalities by Synergizing LLMs and Symbolic Reasoning Zenan Li*, Zhaoyu Li*, Wen Tang, Xian Zhang, Yuan Yao, Xujie Si, Fan Yang, Kaiyu Yang†, Xiaoxing Ma† code
NeuS 2025
NeurIPS 2024
SciInstruct: A Self-Reflective Instruction Annotated Dataset for Training Scientific Language Models Dan Zhang, Ziniu Hu, Sining Zhoubian, Zhengxiao Du, Kaiyu Yang, Zihan Wang, Yisong Yue, Yuxiao Dong, Jie Tang code
COLM 2024
A Survey on Deep Learning for Theorem Proving Zhaoyu Li, Jialiang Sun, Logan Murphy, Qidong Su, Zenan Li, Xian Zhang, Kaiyu Yang, Xujie Si code
ICML 2024
Autoformalizing Euclidean Geometry Logan Murphy*, Kaiyu Yang*, Jialiang Sun, Zhaoyu Li, Anima Anandkumar, Xujie Si code
NeurIPS 2023
LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models Kaiyu Yang, Aidan Swope, Alex Gu, Rahul Chalamala, Peiyang Song, Shixing Yu, Saad Godil, Ryan Prenger, Anima Anandkumar project · code · talk · slides · media
CVPR 2023
Infinite Photorealistic Worlds using Procedural Generation Alexander Raistrick*, Lahav Lipson*, Zeyu Ma*, Lingjie Mei, Mingzhe Wang, Yiming Zuo, Karhan Kayan, Hongyu Wen, Beining Han, Yihan Wang, Alejandro Newell, Hei Law, Ankit Goyal, Kaiyu Yang, Jia Deng project · code
EMNLP 2022
ICML 2022
A Study of Face Obfuscation in ImageNet Kaiyu Yang, Jacqueline Yau, Li Fei-Fei, Jia Deng, Olga Russakovsky project · code · talk · slides · media
NeurIPS 2020
FAT* 2020
ECCV 2016
Stacked Hourglass Networks for Human Pose Estimation Alejandro Newell, Kaiyu Yang, Jia Deng code

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