Summary
Jinyang Li is a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science at UIUC with 12 years of experience building edge AI and multimodal foundation models for cyber-physical systems. He led the design and deployment of a multi-node, multimodal classification testbed that achieved real-time inference at scale and helped secure a multi-year, $25M research initiative extension. His work bridges machine learning, systems engineering, and CPS/IoT, producing resource-efficient, adaptive, and trustworthy AI for constrained environments. A multiple Best Paper Award recipient (SenSys’20, DCOSS-IoT’25, AH’17), he combines rigorous academic training from USTC and UIUC with hands-on production experience in industry research. He is focused on advancing agentic edge systems and next-generation multimodal models that enable intelligent environments in the wild.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Science and Technology of China
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign