Tianhao Li
Head Of Research at SIGMIR
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolTianhao Li is a research-driven security engineer and founder leading SIGMIR as Head of Research with five years of experience at the intersection of adversarial ML, LLM safety, and applied security research. He founded SIGMIR (a 501(c)(3)) and built its core team and operational model, demonstrating both technical depth and nonprofit leadership. Tianhao has held visiting researcher roles at Duke, Zhejiang University (lead author on an LLM safety paper), and University of Wisconsin–Madison, working on agentic security and safety in scientific models. His industry experience includes LLM red teaming and adversarial ML roles at NSFOCUS and Beijing Topsec, plus ISR-focused research on gait-based intelligence. Based in Durham, NC, he pairs a strong academic background in medical physics (MS, Duke) and information security (BE, 3.9/4.0) with hands-on security practice. Colleagues describe him as a cross-disciplinary collaborator who deliberately bridges academic rigor and operational security to drive practical, research-led outcomes.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Medical Physics, Master of Science - MS, Medical Physics at Duke UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Security, 3.9/4.0, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Security, 3.9/4.0 at North China University of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, Science, High School Diploma, Science at Beijing No.35 High School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (44)
markdown10
vulnerability-assessment10
gitpod10
github-pages10
ai10
jekyll10
security9
image-matching9
typescript8
re-identification8
microsoft7
electron7
vscode-extension7
jailbreak7
vscode7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DavidLee528/euler_phi
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
DavidLee528/davidlee528.github.io
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:184 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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