Yuan-fang Li
Chief AI Scientist at Monash University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolYuan-fang Li is Chief AI Scientist at Oracle and an Associate Professor at Monash University with nine years of formal industry experience and a research career dating back to early Semantic Web work. He specializes in natural language processing, large language models, knowledge graphs, knowledge representation and reasoning, and neuro-symbolic approaches that bridge statistical learning with structured symbolic knowledge. Yuan-fang has led ontology-driven data management and distributed RDF infrastructure projects, translating deep academic research into practical systems for scientific data and enterprise AI. Based in Melbourne, he combines leadership roles in academia and industry, with a track record of building interdisciplinary teams and driving engagement across international research and applied AI initiatives. An early focus on ontology verification and semantic technologies gives him a distinctive angle on making LLMs more interpretable and knowledge-grounded.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
YaohuaBachelor of Computing Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing Computer Science at School of ComputingPh.D Computer Science, Ph.D Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (4)
autoencoder8
visual-analytics6
visualization5
altair3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
liyuanfang/r2o2-star
Dec 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
liyuanfang/liyuanfang.github.io
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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