Greetings! I am Manling Li.

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working with Prof. Heng Ji. I am a member of the Blender lab. My research interests lie in the general area of Natural Language Processing, with a special focus on multimedia knowledge extraction and knowledge-aware generation.

Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2019 -
  • Advisor: Prof. Heng Ji
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2018 - 2019
  • Advisor: Prof. Heng Ji
• Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • M.S. in Computer Science, 2015 - 2018
  • Advisor: Prof. Yuanzhuo Wang
• University of Science and Technology Beijing
  • B.E. in Computer Science (Internet of Things), 2011 - 2015
  • B.M. in Information Management and Information Systems (minor), 2012 - 2015

Academic Service

Journal Reviewer: IEEE MultiMedia; Neurocomputing.

Senior PC: IJCAI’21.

PC: ACL’21; AAAI’21; WWW’21; EACL’21; COLING’20; AACL’20; CCL’20.