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Jinyang Li

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PhD Student, Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong

NLPSemantic ParsingLarge Language ModelsText-to-SQL

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Academic Achievements

- Papers Published: 2 papers accepted to NeurIPS Main (2025), 2 papers accepted to ACL Main, 1 paper accepted to KDD (2025), 1 paper accepted to ICML 2025
- Awards: One paper selected as a Spotlight at NeurIPS 2023, released a cleaner version of the development set for Bird-SQL benchmark
- Projects: Involved in several important research projects such as BIRD, Graphix-T5, etc.

Research Experience

- Amazon, Cambridge, UK, Applied Scientist Intern, Project: Alignment & RL for Conversational Modeling, Date: Sept. 2025 - March. 2026
- Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, Researcher Summer Intern, Project I: Non-Parametric Knowledge Distillation For Data Science Code Generation, Date: May. 2024 - Sept. 2024; Project II: Code Generation w/ RL for New Computing Use, Date: Jun. 2025 - Sept. 2025
- Alibaba DAMO Academy, Beijing, China, Advisors: Binyuan Hui, Yongbin Li, Fei Huang, Prof. Reynold C.K. Cheng, Project I: Graphix-T5: Enhancing T5's Database Schema Comprehension through Efficient Multi-Hop Reasoning, Project II: BIRD: The Most Comprehensive Cross-domain Text-to-SQL benchmark for Realistic Database Contents Grounding, Date: Jun. 2022 - Mar. 2023
- IBM Massachusetts Institute of Technology Waston (MIT-IBM), Boston, U.S., Advisor: Fan Zhang, Project: The Research, Design, and Implement of AI Dialog System Based on Goal Planning and Deep Learning, Date: Aug. 2019 - Jan. 2020
- State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, TSAIL Group, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Advisor: Prof. Jun Zhu, Project: Shapelet Based Time Series Regularized Decision Tree & Adversarial Attack for ML models, Date: Apr. 2019 - Aug. 2019

Education

- Ph.D.: Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University, Advisor: Prof. Reynold CK Cheng, Date: Jan. 2022 - Now, Research Interests: LLM, Data Analysis Agents, Text-to-SQL
- M.S.: School of Fu Foundation of Engineering & Applied Science, Columbia University, Track: Data-Driven Analysis and Computing, Date: Aug. 2018 - Feb. 2020, Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision in Health Care
- B.E.: School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Tech, Advisors: Prof. Shiyan Yang & Prof. Ping Zheng, Date: Aug. 2013 - June. 2017, Research Intern: The University of Nottingham, Advisor: Prof. Chris Gerada

Background

- Research Interests: Natural Language Processing (semantic parsing), Large Language Model, especially interactive projects
- Professional Field: Computer Science
- Brief Introduction: PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong University, supported by the HKU Presidential PhD Scholar Programme.

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