Jian Li

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Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT

Applied Mathematics & Statistics

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Stony Brook University

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jian.li.3@stonybrook.edu

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Jian Li is an Assistant Professor of Data Science in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and the Department of Computer Science within the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University. He is also a core faculty member of the AI Innovation Institute (AI3) and affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS). Previously, he was an assistant professor at SUNY-Binghamton, and a postdoctoral researcher at the College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2016, and his B.E. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2012. Dr. Li is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2024) and NSF CISE CRII Award (2021). His research has been recognized with several awards, including the ACM/IEEE SC'24 Best Student Paper Finalist, the ACM e-Energy'21 Best Paper Runner-Up Award and the IEEE MASCOTS'18 Best Paper Runner-Up Award.

Research:

Theory: Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Armed Bandits, Federated Learning, Stochastic Optimization and Control, RL with Human Feedback (RLHF) and Alignment for Large Language Models (LLMs)
Systems and Security: Large-Scale Networked and Trustworthy Intelligent Systems including LLMs, wireless networks, edge and cloud computing, and serverless computing.