Lichi Li (Preferred)
Lichi Li
AI Researcher, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Joined
April 2021
Names
Emails
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
****@mercari.com (Confirmed)
****@cisco.com (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
AI Researcher
Cisco Systems, Inc. (cisco.com)
2025 – Present
Machine Learning Technical Lead
Cisco Systems, Inc. (cisco.com)
2024 – 2025
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
US Machine Learning, Mercari, Inc. (mercari.com)
2022 – 2024
Machine Learning Engineer
US Machine Learning, Mercari, Inc. (mercari.com)
2020 – 2022
Machine Learning Engineer
UX AI, Mercedes Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. (daimler.com)
2017 – 2019
Research Scientist
Engineering, BDP EnviroTech, LLC. (bdpenvirotech.com)
2016 – 2017
MS student
Computer Science, Columbia University (columbia.edu)
2014 – 2015
Undergrad student
Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University (psu.edu)
2009 – 2013
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
LLM post training
2025 – Present
reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards
2025 – Present
AI for cybersecurity
2024 – Present
AI safety alignment
2024 – Present
AI red teaming
2024 – Present
large language model
2023 – Present
recommender systems
2022 – Present
deep learning
2020 – Present
multimodal model
2020 – Present
deep generative models
2018 – Present
causal inference
2015 – Present
generative models
2014 – Present
bayesian inference
2014 – 2020
Publications
Co-Authors
- Ajay H. Daptardar
- Anh Dao
- C. Lee Giles
- Haotian Zhang
- Jian Wu
- Jing Chen
- Kyle Williams
- Madian Khabsa
- Patrick C. Shih
- Peiyan Peng
- Sam London
- Shaohua Zhang
- Tianlong Chen
- Tianlong Chen 000
- Tianyang Zhang
- Yifan Li
- Yinong Xun
- Yong Li
- Yu Kong
- Yuhang Chen
- Zainul Abi Din
- Zhen Tan
- Zhen Tan 000
- Zhongyi Cai
- Zhuoxuan Jiang