About Me
I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student in the DSA Thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), supervised by Prof. Ningning Ding. Additionally, I collaborate closely with with Dr. Yongqiang Chen at CMU-CLeaR group. Before starting my Ph.D., I obtained my M.Phil. in AI at HKUST(GZ) in 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Hui Xiong (Fellow of IEEE, AAAI, AAAS) and Prof. Sihong Xie. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the School of Mathematics at Sun Yat-Sen University.
My research centers on building trustworthy large language models, especially in the area of LLM Machine Unlearning to enhance model controllability, safety, and reliability. Prior to this, my work focused on causal approaches to data mining, aiming to reveal the underlying mechanisms of complex real-world systems. Beyond these topics, I am also interested in Diffusion LLMs.
Thanks for your reading! If you are interested in my research, welcome for discussion and collaboration!
News
- 2025.06: Our paper about LLM causality in experiment design is accepted as oral presentation in ICML SIM Workshop.
Publications & Preprint
Can Large Language Models Help Experimental Design for Causal Discovery?
Junyi Li, Yongqiang Chen, Chenxi Liu, Qianyi Cai, Tongliang Liu, Bo Han, Kun Zhang, Hui Xiong
In ICML Workshop on Scaling up Intervention Models, Oral presentation, 2025.
Improving Portfolio Analysis with Instrumented Principal Component Analysis
Junyi Li, Wenting Zhou, Haoqian Li, Haisheng Yang
Quantitative Finance and Risk Management, Capital University of Economics and Business, 2023
SEE: See Everything Every Time - Broader Light Range Image Enhancement via Events
Yunfan Lu, Xiaogang Xu, Hao Lu, Yanlin Qian, Pengteng Li, Huizai Yao, Bin Yang, Junyi Li, Qianyi Cai, Weiyu Guo, Hui Xiong
International Journal of Computer Vision, 2025
Education
- - Doctor of Philosophy , Data Science and Analytics Thrust
- - Supervisor: Prof. Ningning Ding
- - Master of Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence Thrust
- - Supervisor: Prof. Hui Xiong, Co-supervisor: Prof. Sihong Xie
- - Bachelor of Statistic, School of Mathematic
- - Member of Southern China Center for Statistical Science, Supervised by Prof. Haisheng Yang
Services
- Conference Reviewer : ICLR’25
- Journal Reviewer : IJCV
Internships
- 2022.10 - 2023.01 Data Analytics Intern @ China Guangfa Bank (CGB)
- 2022.07 - 2022.08 Data Analytics Intern @ Digital Guangdong, China Electronics Corporation
- 2022.07 - 2022.08 Trainee @ Guangdong Digital Government Construction Talent Training Programme (广东数字政府建设人才培养计划)
- 2021.07 - 2021.08 Assistant Software Developer @ iFLYTEK South China Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Honors and Awards
Finalist, 2022 Mathematical Contest in Modelling (Top 2%) 2022.05
Second of the Human-Computer interaction channel in the 2nd Guangzhou Pazhou Algorithm Competition. 2023
Second Prize of the 12th & 13th National Mathematics Competition for College Students 2020.12 & 2021.12
Second Prize of Guangdong Province in the 2021 National College Students Mathematical Modeling Competition 2021.10
Special Scholarship of SYSU School of Mathematics (Top 10%) 2021
SYSU Zhong Youchu Scholarship (Top 10%) 2020
SYSU Third Prize Outstanding Student Scholarship (Top 20%) 2022 & 2020
Outstanding Trainees of Guangdong Digital Government Construction Talent Training Programme (Political and Digital Academy) 2022.08
Honorable Mention, Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Top 20%) 2021.05