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Faculty
Sheng Li
Quantitative Foundation Associate Professor of Data Science
School of Data Science
Email: vga8uf@virginia.edu
Additional Contact Information
Website: www.sheng-li.org
Office: 1919 Ivy Rd., Rm. 438
Sheng Li is an artificial intelligence researcher and his long-term goal is to develop intelligent systems in open and dynamic environments. Li joined the School of Data Science as an Assistant Professor in 2022.
Prior to the University of Virginia, Li was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Georgia from 2018 to 2022 and a Data Scientist in Adobe Research from 2017 to 2018. He directs the Reasoning and Knowledge Discovery Laboratory. Li's research interests include trustworthy representation learning (e.g., robustness, fairness, causality, transferability), visual intelligence, user modeling, natural language understanding, bioinformatics, and biomedical informatics.
Li has extensive publications in major peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He has served as associate editor of seven journals, including IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, and IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, and also served as Area Chair for NeurIPS and ICLR.
Li holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University, and an M.S. in Information Security and B.S. in Computer Science from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications.