Yihao Li

Hello!! My name is Yihao Li (李奕好). I am a second-year PhD student in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. I am fortunate to be advised by Konrad Kording and Lyle Ungar. I previously completed my bachelor’s degrees at Tsinghua University and was briefly a visiting student at MIT BCS, where I worked with Guangyu Robert Yang in the Metaconscious Group.

My research focuses on NeuroAI, where I study the building blocks of general intelligence and how they support its ability to generalize. I draw inspiration from neuroscience and cognitive science and ask whether similar principles are present in artificial systems. Currently, I’m most interested in the symbolic-like processing of entities (with a specific focus on binding) in connectionist systems like neural networks. Beyond that, I have broad interests in linguistic phenomena in LLMs, multilingual and multimodal reasoning, and diffusion models.

Outside of academia, I’m an avid volleyball player and fan—I play regularly and love watching international games and leagues. I also enjoy traveling and exploring new cities.