Summary
Bryan Li is a research scientist based in New York with nine years of experience at the intersection of multilingual NLP, cross-lingual information retrieval, and large language model applications. He holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and has translated academic insights into industry impact through roles and internships at Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, focusing recently on embedding models for Search. His work spans both foundational research—evaluating long-form outputs and multilingual RAG systems—and product-facing problems like translation and conversational NLU, with papers and workshop contributions across NAACL, ACL, and SIGIR venues. Comfortable moving between academia and industry, he has repeatedly collaborated with Johns Hopkins and Columbia labs, bringing linguistic breadth (English and Mandarin) to speech and translation projects. Colleagues note his knack for turning multilingual theory into practical, scalable systems that improve real-world retrieval and reasoning.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Irvine High School
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Columbia University
PhD Computer and Information Science, PhD Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, English, French