I am LI Yinqiao (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 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

• 2025-07-15 - Finished the area chair jobs of ARR May 2025 🎒
• 2025-07-11 - Participated in a meeting hold by Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Alliance of Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Great Bay Area 👨‍🏫
• 2025-07-03 - Directed and submitted a paper to EMNLP (Industry Track) as a corresponding author 📜
• 2025-07-03 - Our paper is accepted by Information Fusion (SCI-Q1) 📜
• 2025-07-03 - Our paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI) 📜
• 2025-07-01 - Directed and submitted a paper to JSTSP as a corresponding author 📜
• 2025-06-13 - Finished the area chair jobs of CCL 2025 🎒
• 2025-06-05 - Discussed AI for Education/team-based learning wiht Mr. TAY Kheng Tiong (former CEO of A*STAR Computational Resource Centre, former Chief Information Officer at NTU) 👨‍🏫
• 2025-05-31 - Elected as a chair of WiNLP (ACL-affiliated affinity group) 🎒
• 2025-05-30 - Conducted a roadshows at Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao University Science and Technology Achievement Investment and Transaction Conference 👨‍🏫
• 2025-05-28 - Our United States Provisional Patent Application is acknowledged. 🎉
• 2025-04-16 - Our paper is accepted by the 1st Workshop on Pattern mining and Machine learning for Bioinformatics (PM4B) 📜
• 2025-04-13 - Won a Silver Medal in IEIG (International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva) 2025 🎉
• 2025-04-10 - Finished the area chair jobs of ARR Feb 2025 🎒
• 2025-03-11 - Participated in the Launch of the Community of Practice (CoP) on “Enriching Future-Ready Education with GenAI and Beyond” 👨‍🏫
• 2024-09-20 - Our paper (first author) is accepted by Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 📜

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). 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 “你嘅廣東話而家幾好喎 (Your Cantonese is excellent now)”, it always makes my day!

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