hi, I'm Jinning Li | 黎金宁
I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. My advisor is Prof. Tarek Abdelzaher. My research interests focus on Data Mining and Machine Learning for Social Networks and Cyber-Physical Systems. Also interested in Autonomous Driving, NLP, and Computer Vision.
Before joining UIUC, I was an Machine Learning Engineer in Pony.ai Inc. I obtained my B.S. in Compuer Science from ACM Honors Class, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.





Education



PhD candidate in Computer Science | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
M.S. in Computer Science | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Advisor: Prof. Tarek Abdelzaher
Explainable Representation Learning | Large Language Models | Graph Learning

Research

  

Research Scholar | ACE Center for Evolvable Computing
SRC Research Scholars Program
Graph Representation Learning | Temporal Graph Optimization

Research Assistant | Advanced Network Lab | Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Advisor: Prof. Xiaofeng Gao
Data Mining | Social Network | Natural Language Processing

Research Intern | Cornell University
Advisor: Prof. Thorsten Joachims
Counterfactual Machine Learning | Ad Placement

Research Intern | Purdue University
Advisor: Prof. Yexiang Xue
Machine Learning | Computer Vision | Computational Sustainability

Industry

Applied Scientist Intern | Amazon
Large Language Model Adapters | Knowledge Graph | RAG | QA | Alexa

Research Intern | Google
Multi-Modal Search | Gemini | Query Understanding

Applied Research Intern | Twitter (Cortex)
Natural Language Processing | Knowledge Graph Representations | Large Language Model

Machine Learning Algorithm Engineer (Full Time Employee) | Pony.ai
Autonomous Driving | Perception | Classification | Trajectory Prediction

Research Intern | YITU Technology
Face Recognition | Super Resolution | Re-Identification



Jinning Li