LI Yinqiao's Homepage A researcher in Natural Language Processing (NLP).
I am LI Yinqiao (李垠橋/李垠桥/Joe), a postdoctoral fellow in the AI^2 Lab at 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 from Northeastern University (CN), where I was affiliated with the NEU-RTES Lab. My research primarily focuses on language modeling, neural architecture search for NLP tasks, machine translation, and related areas. A detailed list of my publications can be found here.
Additionally, I am passionate about contributing to our NLP community. I have served as an area chair for several academic conferences, including ACL ARR and CCL. I am currently serving as a fixed-term chair of WiNLP (ACL-affiliated affinity group), with the aim of promoting and supporting the ideas and voices of underrepresented groups. More information about my community activities can be found here.
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NEWS
I am currently preparing a series of trilingual video tutorials in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin on low-resource task adaptation for large language models. Through this work, I hope to encourage broader research on real-world NLP tasks for AI for social good and underrepresented communities 🤝. Based in Hong Kong, I am also interested in Hong Kong Sign Language and hope to explore how LLM technologies can support deaf and hard-of-hearing communities, while contributing to the preservation of Cantonese-related local language and culture. I look forward to future collaboration with researchers in this area and to exploring potential research projects together :)
- 2026-05-26 - Submitted a long paper about low-resource task adaptation to EMNLP 📜
- 2026-03-23 - Our paper is accepted by IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (SCI-Q1) 📜
- 2026-03-15 - Won a Bronze Medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva (IEIG) 2026 🎉
- 2026-02-19 - Our paper is accepted by Information Processing & Management (SCI-Q1) 📜
- 2026-01-29 - Submitted a research project application to the National Natural Science Foundation of China/RGC Joint Research Scheme 📜
- 2026-01-13 - Serving another term as Chair of WiNLP (ACL-affiliated affinity group) 🎒
- 2025-12-23 - Visited the Natural Language Processing Lab at Northeastern University and delivered a presentation about low-rank adaptation in LLMs 👨🏫
- 2025-12-11 - Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) Project Successfully Completed 📜
- 2025-12-05 - Won a Silver Medal at the Asia Exhibition of Innovations and Inventions Hong Kong (AEII) 2025 🎉
- 2025-12-01 - Our paper is accepted by Information Fusion (SCI-Q1) 📜
More news can be found here.
EDUCATION
- 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 Areas: 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
- Low-Resource Task Adaptation in LLMs
- Neural Architecture Search for NLP
- Machine Translation
- NLP Applications (e.g., FinTech, AI for Education)
MISC
I love my hometown (Northeast China). I grew up in Anshan and completed my entire higher education in Shenyang over 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 live and work in Hong Kong 🇭🇰. This is also an amazing city. Its remarkable diversity, incredible inclusiveness, magnificent urban and natural landscapes — all these unique features make me proud and happy to be part of this community. 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 much better now)”, it always makes my day!
With best wishes to my parents and everyone close to my heart. 🤞