Boxuan Li
Scholar

Boxuan Li

Google Scholar ID: 4DqPFtAAAAAJ
Microsoft
Big DataLLMagent
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
457
 
H-index
5
 
i10-index
4
 
Publications
8
 
Co-authors
10
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Paper accepted at ICLR 2025 on OpenHands
  • Paper accepted at NeurIPS 2025: 'The Agent Company: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Consequential Real World Tasks' (co-first author)
  • OpenHands: 64k GitHub stars, 7M+ downloads, cited in 300+ academic papers
  • JanusGraph: 6k GitHub stars, 500k+ downloads
  • Contributions to multiple high-impact open-source projects and benchmarks widely adopted by industry and academia
Research Experience
  • Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, working on SCOPE query optimizer—the core of Microsoft’s in-house data lake processing nearly one million jobs and exabytes of data daily
  • Co-founder and active maintainer of OpenHands (since 2024), the most popular open-source coding agent platform
  • Maintainer of Terminal-Bench, a benchmark for AI agents in terminal environments, adopted in system cards of major LLMs like Claude 4.5 and GLM 4.5
  • Maintainer of Harbor, a framework for agent evaluation and rollout used by Terminal-Bench, DataComp, and SkyRL
  • Core developer of TheAgentCompany, where he designed a reproducible and extensible evaluation framework and led a team of 10+ engineers
  • Member of the Technical Steering Committee for JanusGraph (since 2019), leading development of the most popular open-source distributed graph database