Bryan Li

Bryan Li has extensive experience in the field of computer science, notably in research and teaching roles across prestigious institutions. Bryan served as a Student Researcher at UCLA and Columbia University, where involvement included coursework assistance and contributing to various research projects. Bryan gained industry experience as a Research Intern at Microsoft, focusing on speech language modeling and external memory integration in transformer models. Continuing in research, Bryan holds a Graduate Research Assistant position at the University of Pennsylvania alongside roles as a Teaching Assistant. As an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon and a forthcoming Research Intern at Google, Bryan's work emphasizes advanced techniques in machine learning and language processing. Bryan's academic background includes a PhD candidacy at the University of Pennsylvania and degrees from Columbia University, showcasing a strong foundation in computer and information science. Additionally, Bryan is engaged in visiting research at Johns Hopkins University, contributing to evaluation efforts in multilingual retrieval systems in preparation for the SIGIR 2026 conference.