Jeffrey W. Li

I’m a 5th year CSE PhD student at the University of Washington who is grateful to be advised by Ludwig Schmidt and Alexander Ratner. During my PhD, I have also spent time interning at both Apple MLR, hosted by Fartash Faghri, and Snorkel AI. Before my PhD, I obtained an MS in Machine Learning from CMU, where I was fortunate to be advised and introduced to ML research by Ameet Talwakar.

I am generally interested in applying data-centric approaches to improve the efficiency and performance of ML models. Most recently I have been particularly interested in LLM pre-training, completing recent projects about web-scale data curation and continual methods for reusing and updating previous models.