Manling Li
Assistant Professor at Stanford University
United States
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Top SchoolManling Li is an Assistant Professor and founder of the Machine Learning & Language (MLL) Lab at Northwestern University, combining a decade of experience in ML and NLP research with hands-on leadership in an academic lab. Her work has been recognized by MIT Technology Review 35 Under 35 and an ACL 2025 Inaugural Dissertation Award honorable mention, and she recently received AAAI 2025 New Faculty highlights. Before joining Northwestern she was a postdoc at Stanford AI Lab (NeurIPS oral, SoCal NLP Best Paper) and continues collaborations at Stanford with leaders like Fei-Fei Li and Yejin Choi. She also serves as an Amazon Scholar, bridging foundational research and industry impact. Trained at UIUC (PhD in Computer Science), she publishes high-impact work that sits at the intersection of language and learning and is known for translating theoretical advances into practical multimodal and language-modeling systems. A detail often overlooked: she balances top-tier research recognition with active mentorship and lab-building that accelerates early-career researchers into the field.
10 years of coding experience
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (21)
extraction10
ranking9
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science8
eai8
entity7
computer-science7
react7
multimedia7
nlp6
natural-language-processing6
aida6
pipeline5
graph5
benchmarking4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
limanling/limanling.github.io
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:143 pushes in 2 years 9 months
limanling/uiuc_ie_pipeline_finegrained_source_code
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
Source code for UIUC_IE_PIPELINE_FINEGRAINED
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
pipelineuiuc
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