Lichi Li

AI Researcher, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Joined
April 2021

Names

Lichi Li (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
****@mercari.com (Confirmed)
****@cisco.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

AI Researcher
Cisco Systems, Inc. (cisco.com)
2025Present
Machine Learning Technical Lead
Cisco Systems, Inc. (cisco.com)
20242025
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
US Machine Learning, Mercari, Inc. (mercari.com)
20222024
Machine Learning Engineer
US Machine Learning, Mercari, Inc. (mercari.com)
20202022
Machine Learning Engineer
UX AI, Mercedes Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. (daimler.com)
20172019
Research Scientist
Engineering, BDP EnviroTech, LLC. (bdpenvirotech.com)
20162017
MS student
Computer Science, Columbia University (columbia.edu)
20142015
Undergrad student
Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University (psu.edu)
20092013

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor
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2024Present
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2023Present
Coauthor
20252026
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20252025
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20252025
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20252025
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20252025
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20252025
Coworker
20222024
Coworker
20222024
Coworker
20202024
Masters Advisor
20142015
Undergraduate Advisor
20132013

Expertise

LLM post training
2025Present
reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards
2025Present
AI for cybersecurity
2024Present
AI safety alignment
2024Present
AI red teaming
2024Present
large language model
2023Present
recommender systems
2022Present
deep learning
2020Present
multimodal model
2020Present
deep generative models
2018Present
causal inference
2015Present
generative models
2014Present
bayesian inference
20142020