Siyan Li
PHD at Columbia University
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSiyan Li is a PhD student in Computer Science at Columbia University with eight years of experience spanning research, teaching, and industry internships in robotics, healthcare, and dialogue systems. Guided by advisors Zhou Yu and Julia Hirschberg, Siyan focuses on building virtual agents for healthcare, mental health, and education that improve human-centered communication. Their background includes research roles in Denmark and the U.S., an MS from Stanford, a BS from Georgia Tech, and hands-on software engineering experience at Amazon Robotics. Notably, Siyan has blended entrepreneurial work—co-founding a college-admissions app for Chinese students—with lab research on material recognition and robotics, reflecting a rare mix of product-minded development and rigorous ML research.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Columbia UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (29)
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
speech-recognition8
python8
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
acl7
phonetics7
tensorflow7
bert7
transformer7
spoken-language6
computational-linguistics6
bots6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
siyan-sylvia-li/sli613.github.io
Nov 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:42 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
GimmeAbr/ShelterFinder2340
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 78 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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