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.

News

• [2021-08] Did a tutorial at ACL 2021 about Event-centric Natural Language Processing with Muhao, Qiang, Hongming, Heng, Kathy and Dan.
• [2021-06] Our COVID-KG was awarded as Best Demo Paper at NAACL 2021.
• [2021-06] Our work of knowledge extraction and reasoning has been reported by the department Manling Li Produces Award-winning Event Schema Research with Advisor and Mentor Heng Ji.
• [2021-05] Awarded C.L. and Jane Liu Award for showing exceptional research promise.
• [2021-04] Selected as Mavis Future Faculty Fellow.
• [2021-02] Did a tutorial at AAAI 2021 about Event-centric Natural Language Understanding with Muhao, Qiang, Hongming, Heng and Dan.
• [2020-10] Ranked 1st in TAC Streaming Multimedia Knowledge Base Population (SM-KBP) 2020.
• [2020-08] Our GAIA multimedia IE system has been awarded as Best Demo Paper at ACL 2020.
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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

Experience

• 05/2021 - 08/2021, Microsoft Research
  • Research Intern at the Cognitive Services Research group
  • Mentor: Ruochen Xu
  • Focus: Multimedia Pretrained Embedding
• 06/2020 - 08/2020, IBM Research
  • Research Intern at the Foundations of AI Reasoning group
  • Mentor: Tengfei Ma, Mo Yu
  • Focus: Graph Compession via Optimal Transport

Academic Service

Journal Reviewer: IEEE MultiMedia; Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research; Neurocomputing.

Senior PC: IJCAI’21.

PC: AAAI’22; WWW’22; EMNLP’21; ACL’21; AAAI’21; WWW’21; EACL’21; KDD’21 DI Workshop; NLPCC 2021; COLING’20; AACL’20; CCL’20.