Scholar
Manling Li
Google Scholar ID: 6U4SXnUAAAAJ
Assistant Professor at Northwestern University
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,629
H-index
29
i10-index
45
Publications
20
Co-authors
21
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Named to MIT Tech Review 35 Under 35 in 2025
- ACL Inaugural Best Dissertation Award Honorable Mention in 2025
- DARPA Riser and EECS Rising Star in 2022
- Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship recipient in 2021
- Awarded ACL'24 Outstanding Paper Award, ACL'20 Best Demo Paper Award, and NAACL'21 Best Demo Paper Award
- Served as virtual co-chair for ACL'25, publication co-chair for NAACL'25, and demo co-chair for EMNLP'24
Background
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, affiliated with the Center for Robotics and Biosystems and Cognitive Science
- Directs the Machine Learning and Language (MLL) Lab
- Amazon Scholar working on conversational agents
- Aims to make AI and LLMs beneficial for humans at the intersection of language, vision, robotics, and society
- Focuses on reasoning, planning, and compositionality with applications in Embodied AI and AI for science
- Seeks to promote trustworthiness and truthfulness through explainable, highly compositional systems capable of long-horizon reasoning
