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I'm a rising-sophomore Ph.D. student in Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining UIUC in 2023, I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Zhejiang University.

I work as a member in UIUC DAIS Group My life-long research goal goes towards artificial general intelligence that is adaptive, trustworthy, and even with consciousness and creativity. Feel free to drop me an email, if interested and want to discuss potential collaborations!

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Zihao Li (李子豪)

"I believe we did."
📌 Pinned
    We will give a tutorial on contrastive learning for foundation models at KDD'24. Welcome to join us and see you in Barcelona.
📣 News:
  • [Apr 2024] Our survey regarding contrastive learning for foundation models is out.
  • [Mar 2024] I will join Microsoft Research Asia as a research intern this summer.
  • [Mar 2024] One paper accepted by SIGIR 2024.
  • [Aug 2023] Officially started my Ph.D. journal at UIUC CS. Let's go Illini!
Education

"Nobody should escape our universities without knowing how little one knows."


Ph.D.          2023 - 2029 (yeah I'm expecting 6-year graduation)
                       University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
                       Department of Computer Science

B.S.              2019 - 2023 (double-degree)
                       University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
                       Computer Engineering, Summa Cum Laude
                      

B.E.              2019 - 2023 (double-degree)
                       Zhejiang University (ZJU)
                       Electronic and Computer Engineering, National Scholarship receipient and Outstanding Graduate
                      
Experience

"Why limit yourself to just one dogma?"


Microsoft Research Asia, Shanghai, China
Research Intern • Jun.-present. 2024
LLM & AI Agents, Shanghai AI/ML Group
Mentor: Dr. Kaitao Song

Teaching Assistant, ZJU and UIUC [expand]
Publications (*equal contribution)

"Genius is no guarantee of wisdom."

Conference
       Preprint

Open-sourced Projects

"Theory will only take you so far."


RLHF-Reward-Modeling

Cookbook of reproducibly training SOTA reward models.
Collborated with Wei Xiong and Prof. Tong Zhang.

HowToUIUC

Guide for international students to survive (cozily) at UIUC.
Services

"Together, we can unlock the secrets of the natural world and build a better future for all."

Program Committee/Reviewer:
2024: KDD, CIKM, NeurIPS
2023: IEEE BigData
Awards

"It Won't Be For You, It Would Be For Them."

  • National Scholarship of China (top 0.2%, highest honor)
    2022
  • Zhejiang University Scholarship - First Prize (top 3%)
    2022
  • The Mathematical Contest in Modeling - Meritorious Winner (top 7%)
    2022
  • Provincial Government Scholarship of Zhejiang Province (top 3%)
    2021
  • Zhejiang University Scholarship - Second Prize (top 3%)
    2021
  • ZJUI Academic Scholarship Second Prize - $4000
    2021
Acknowledgement

"Do not go gentle into that good night"

In my undergraduate years, I have fortunately collaborated with (alphabetically) Prof. Yan Chen (NWU, IL), Prof. Jingrui He (UIUC), Prof. Simon Hu (ZJU), Prof. Zuozhu Liu (ZJU), Prof. Klaus-Dieter Schewe (ZJU), Prof. Lav R. Varshney (UIUC). Many thanks to anyone who guided or helped me.

Also, I'm very thankful to the research interns that I have worked with:
Jingyuan Huang (Undergrad -> Ph.D@Rutgers CS)
Hengyu Liu (Undergrad -> Master@UIUC CS)
Jie Wang (Undergrad -> Master@UPenn)
Miscellaneous

I enjoy both watching and playing soccer⚽ (real "foot"ball) games. My favorite teams are Manchester City F.C., Real Madrid CF, and Liverpool F.C.. My squad number is 22 = 10(Attacking Midfielder) + 8(Central Midfielder or Box-to-Box Midfielder) + 4(Defensive Midfielder or Centre Back). I like frisbee🥏 as well.

I love Jazz and LoFi music🎧. I play the piano🎹 myself and am a big fan of ANIMENZ. I love Whiskey🥃 and used to bartend🍸 myself.