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04/2026 One paper gets accepted by ICML 2026.
04/2026 Happy to receive an Amazon Research Award, Fall 2025.
03/2026 Invited talks at Q4C Colloquium, CUNY and ECE, NJIT (same topic).
  • Understanding Memory and Reasoning in Language Models via Markov Processes
02/2026 I will be attending and giving a talk at ITA 2026 Workshop.
09/2025 Gave a talk at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Statistics Seminar at NJIT.
09/2025 Two papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025.
09/2025 Excited to share that I’ve joined the Department of Data Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) as an Assistant Professor, starting in Fall 2025.
08/2025 I defended my PhD thesis today! Officially Dr. Li now! :mortar_board:
07/2025 One paper gets accepted by COLM 2025.
03/2025 I will be giving a talk at the CPAL2025@Stanford as a Rising Star!
02/2025 I will be giving a talk at the 2025 ITA Workshop! See you soon in San Diego. :ship:
UPDATE: Happy to receive the Sea Prize for my Graduation Day presentation.
01/2025 One paper gets accepted by AISTATS 2025.
01/2025 THE SAME DAY! I’m excited to announce that I received the CPAL Rising Star Award and will present my work at Stanford.
01/2025 I’m excited to share that I have been selected for the KAUST Rising Stars in AI Symposium 2025!
09/2024 One paper gets accepted by NeurIPS 2024.
07/2024 I will be giving a talk at 1st ICML Workshop on In-Context Learning (ICL @ ICML 2024)! See you in Vienna! :sparkles:
06/2024 Two papers get accepted by 1st ICML Workshop on In-Context Learning.
05/2024 I will present 3 posters at MMLS 2024.
05/2024 One paper gets accepted by ICML 2024.
01/2024 One paper gets accepted by AISTATS 2024.
10/2023 Our work is accepted at NeurIPS 2023 M3L Workshop.
09/2023 Two papers are accepted by NeurIPS 2023.
06/2023 One paper is accepted at ICML 2023 HiLD Workshop.
  • Max-margin token selection in attention mechanism
04/2023 One paper is accepted at ICML 2023. See you in Hawaii. :hibiscus: