Zihao Li
Research Assistant at Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZihao Li is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UIUC specializing in machine learning for heterogeneous and structured data, with 15+ papers at top ML venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, TMLR, KDD, ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, TheWebConf). He has rapid-impact research experience—publishing a first-author TheWebConf paper after just five months as an undergraduate—and has interned on NLP, LLMs, and AI agents at Microsoft and on applied science at Amazon. A dual-degree Summa Cum Laude alumnus of UIUC and Zhejiang University, Zihao also placed in the national Top 300 of the Chinese Mathematical Olympiad and won Meritorious status in the MCM. He blends strong theoretical aptitude with practical systems work, frequently turning research into high-impact publications and industry collaborations.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Zhejiang University
Github Skills (7)
survey9
generative-ai6
large-language-models6
rlhf2
llm2
spring1
mps1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Violet24K/Violet24K_before_phd.github.io
Jan 2022 - May 2023
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:235 pushes in 1 year 3 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
Violet24K/HowToUIUC
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Guide for surviving at UIUC (under development)
Contributions:179 commits, 4 PRs, 186 pushes in 6 months
under-developmentuiuc
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