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Academic CV, generated from the latest structured CV data.

About Me

Sifan Li

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science

sflijohn@foxmail.com | johnnyzeppelin.github.io | github.com/johnnyZeppelin | scholar:Gc1bAVwAAAAJ

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Prof. Shenghua Liu and Prof. Yiwei Wang. I am also an assistant researcher in AI4Science at Shanghai AI Lab and a research intern at the University of California, Merced, working under the supervision of Prof. Yiwei Wang. My research interests include NLP, multimodal LLMs, VLMs, AI interpretability, agentic systems, reinforcement learning, AI4Science, efficient training, and computer vision.

Employments

  • 2026.04 - Present
    Assistant Researcher in AI4Science
    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
    Research on AI4Science and foundation-model systems.
  • 2025.06 - 2026.04
    Assistant Algorithm Engineer in NLP
    vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
    Research and engineering work on large language models and NLP applications.
  • 2024.09 - Present
    Research Intern
    University of California, Merced
    Advised by Prof. Yiwei Wang.
    • Published SemVink at the EMNLP 2025 Main Conference.
  • 2024.06 - 2025.06
    Visiting Student
    Peking University
    Advised by Asst. Prof. Hao Tang.
  • 2023.12 - 2024.12
    Research Assistant
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
    Advised by Prof. Bingzhuo Zhong, Dr. rer. nat.

Education

Publications

Research Projects

Academic Service

  • 2027.01 - 2027.12
    Reviewer
    Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
    AAAI 2027.
  • 2026.01 - 2026.12
    Reviewer
    Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
    AAAI 2026.
  • 2026.01 - 2026.12
    Reviewer
    Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)
    COLM 2026.
  • 2026.01 - 2026.12
    Reviewer
    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
    NeurIPS 2026.
  • 2026.01 - 2026.12
    Senior Area Chair
    Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
    AAAI 2026.
  • 2025.01 - 2025.12
    Reviewer
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
    CVPR 2025.