U-A-Goose Lab, Advisor: Dr. Zhou Yang
Edmonton, Alberta
I study how AI agents behave in real software systems, and how to make their decisions inspectable, reliable, and trustworthy.
I bring about three years of professional software-engineering experience, formerly at IQVIA.
My research interests are AI4SE, LLM4Coding, trustworthy AI, long-horizon coding agents, and AI for SRE.
I care about focused, sustained work. Here is how I think about work ethic.
I live in Edmonton, Alberta. Fun fact: Edmonton’s North Saskatchewan River Valley is one of the largest stretches of connected urban parkland in North America.
Research
I work on three connected questions.
- Long-horizon coding agents. How can they preserve context, repository memory, and architectural intent as software evolves? See ContextLedger.
- AI for SRE. How should agents be evaluated when diagnosis and recovery happen inside live reliability conditions? See SREGym.
- Trustworthy AI. How can we inspect agent choices, security boundaries, and evidence when the final answer still looks acceptable? See SHIFT.
news
| Sep 27, 2026 | SREGym blog: how we turned real-world postmortems into reproducible SRE benchmark problems. Blog · Tianyin’s post |
| Sep 1, 2026 | I have started graduate study in Computing Science at the University of Alberta, in the U-A-Goose group. |
| Jun 30, 2026 | Submitted ‘The Choice Can Be the Attack: Auditing Aligned Backdoors in LLM Agents’ to the Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2026 with Chowdhury Rakin Haider. |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Started a remote summer research internship at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign through UIUC++ Summer Research in Software Engineering (SRSE) 2026 with Professor Tianyin Xu. |
| Feb 1, 2026 | Resubmitted ‘An Empirical Study on Remote Code Execution in Machine Learning Model Hosting Ecosystems’ to ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2026. Preprint available on arXiv. |
latest posts
selected publications
- arXiv An Empirical Study on Remote Code Execution in Machine Learning Model Hosting Ecosystems
Mohammed Latif Siddiq, Tanzim Hossain Romel, Natalie Sekerak, Beatrice Casey, Joanna C. S. Santos · 2026 - TACL The Choice Can Be the Attack: Auditing Aligned Backdoors in LLM Agents
Tanzim Hossain Romel, Chowdhury Rakin Haider · 2026 - CSCW Sentiment Analysis of Anonymous Crisis Reports in Bangladesh
Tanzim Hossain Romel · 2025