siyan.li [at] columbia.edu

First-Year CS Ph.D. at Columbia University.

My absolutely fantastic advisors are Zhou Yu and Julia Hirschberg!! I am interested in Dialogue Systems applications in Healthcare, Mental Health, and Education. I want to develop virtual agents that communicate with humans better.

I did my BS at Georgia Tech and started doing NLP research with the amazing Mark Riedl. I then completed my MSCS at Stanford, where I was fortunate enough to collaborate with Chris Manning and Chris Potts. I have been a teaching assistant for both Stanford's CS 224N and CS 224U, and a member of Stanford's Alexa Prize Socialbot Challenge team of 2022-2023.

My Chinese Name's Pinyin: lǐ sī yàn ( "Siyan" pronunciation).

You can find me on [ Twitter], [ LinkedIn (Very not updated)], and [ Google Scholar]. You can also take a gander at my CV.