Dr. Lei Li

Biography

Lei Li is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute. His research primarily focuses on generative artificial intelligence, language science, multilingual natural language processing (NLP), machine translation (text and speech), and the security of large language models (LLMs). Li holds affiliations with CMU CyLab and CMU-Pitt CompBio, and has contributed significantly to the field through various papers and workshops. His recent work includes benchmarking generative AI tasks in biology, achieving top scores in simultaneous speech translation competitions, and addressing LLM watermark detection. He has organized workshops and published extensively across prestigious conferences, demonstrating advancements in multilingual translation and AI applications in drug discovery and protein design. Li's educational initiatives encourage students to engage in independent studies, internships, and capstone projects. He has a proven track record of success, with numerous publications in top-tier conferences and collaboration with leading academic and research institutions.

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