Yingru LI

Yingru LI

Research Scientist

ByteDance, Singapore

About me

I am a Research Scientist at ByteDance in Singapore. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2025 from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where I had the privilege of being advised by Prof. Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo.

During my studies, I was a research intern at Microsoft Research and the Tencent AI & Robotics X Lab. I also had the valuable opportunity to collaborate with Prof. Tong Zhang and Prof. John Hopcroft.

Research Vision

My research aims to develop intelligent agents capable of reliably interacting with complex environments. By bridging foundational theory with scalable algorithms, I advance reinforcement learning, optimization, and large language model (LLM) reasoning to create systems for trustworthy decision-making.

Recent Honors

  • Presidential PhD Fellowship
  • Tencent AI PhD Fellowship
  • Best Paper Award, 2024 Daoyuan Academic Forum
  • Best Student Paper Award, 2024 IEEE SAM

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Interests
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Large-Scale Optimization
  • LLM Reasoning and Agents
Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2025

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • M.S. & B.E. with Honors, 2020

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Contact

szrlee [at] gmail [dot] com