I am LI Yinqiaoliː jiːn tʃʰaʊ (李垠桥/李垠橋/Joey), currently a postdoctoral fellow at AI^2 Lab at the City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) under the supervision of Prof. SONG Linqi.

I received my Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Northeastern University (CN) under the supervision of Prof. XIAO Tong and Prof. ZHU Jingbo (NEUNLP Lab). I also earned my B.S. degree at the NEU-RTES Lab of Northeastern University (CN). My research primarily focuses on language modeling, neural architecture search for NLP tasks, machine translation, and related areas. Detailed publications can be found here.

Additionally, I am passionate about contributing to our NLP community. I served as chairs for multiple academic conferences (ACL ARR, CCL, etc.) before, and currently I am serving as a fixed term chair of WiNLP (ACL-affiliated affinity group), aiming to help promote and support ideas and voices of underrepresented groups. More my community activities can be found here.

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NEWS

• 2025-09-14 - Conducted a roadshows at the City University of Hong Kong International High-Caliber Talents Tech Transfer Roadshow Competition 👨‍🏫
• 2025-09-10 - Our paper about KG and LLMs is now available on arXiv 📜
• 2025-09-08 - Submitted a research project application to JC STEM Early Career Research Fellowship for Translation and Application 📜
• 2025-09-06 - Conducted a roadshows at Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Entrepreneurship Competition 👨‍🏫
• 2025-09-01 - Successfully entered the semi-finals of the 2025 Qingyuan Entrepreneurship Competition 🎉
• 2025-08-28 - Discussed AI for Education with Mr. CHEN Lin (former Senior Vice President of ByteDance Ltd.) and Dr. WANG Zhuo (former Vice President of the Education Group at iFLYTEK Ltd.) 👨‍🏫
• 2025-08-19 - Successfully entered the semi-finals of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Entrepreneurship Competition 2025 🎉
• 2025-08-13 - Finished the reviewer job of WiNLP 2025 🎒
• 2025-08-01 - Participated in Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Young Scientist Conference 👨‍🏫
• 2025-07-15 - Finished the area chair job of ARR May 2025 🎒

More news can be found here.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• Ph.D., Northeastern University (Natural Language Processing Lab), 2018-2023, Shenyang, China
  • Major: Computer Software and Theory
  • Advisor: Prof. ZHU Jingbo
  • Co-advisor: Prof. XIAO Tong
  • Thesis: Research on Neural Architecture Search for Language Modeling
• M.S., Northeastern University (Natural Language Processing Lab), 2016-2018, Shenyang, China
  • Major: Computer Software and Theory
  • Advisor: Prof. XIAO Tong
  • Thesis: Research of Decoding Acceleration Method for Neural Machine Translation Based on Self-attention Mechanism
• B.S., Northeastern University, 2012-2016, Shenyang, China
  • Major: Internet of Things Engineering
  • Grades: GPA: 3.79/5; Rank: 3/29
  • Thesis: Design and Implementation of Reranking System Which Based on Neural Network Language Model

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Postdoctoral Fellow, City University of Hong Kong (AI^2 Lab), 2023-present, Hong Kong SAR
  • Department: Department of Computer Science
  • PI: Prof. SONG Linqi
  • Research Directions: Natural Language Processing and FinTech

INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE

• Research Intern, Tencent Holdings Ltd., 2021-2022, Beijing, China
  • Group: Platform & Content Group (PCG)
  • Mentor: Mr. HE Qiaozhi
  • Research: AuMLM: An Auto-regressive Training Approach to Masked Language Modeling

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Natural Language Processing
  • Language Modeling
  • Pre-training
  • Neural Architecture Search for NLP tasks
  • Machine Translation
  • NLP Applications (FinTech, AI for Education, etc.)

MISC

I love my hometown (Northeast China/Manchuria). I grew up in Anshan and completed my entire education in Shenyang (~11 years). People there are very warm and friendly — always cheerful and full of positive energy. I’m so grateful for inheriting the Northeastern Chinese spirit that supports me in any situation.

Now, I work in Hong Kong 🇭🇰. This is also an amazing city. Its high diversity, incredible inclusiveness, magnificent urban and natural landscapes — all these unique features make me enjoy living here. Additionally, I’m learning Cantonese. Every time my local neighbors compliment my Cantonese, like “你而家廣東話講得叻好多喇 (Your Cantonese is better now)”, it always makes my day!

With best wishes to my parents and everyone I hold close to my heart. 🤞