Yanda Li

Postdoctoral Researcher
Email: [email protected]

About me

I’m Yanda Li, and I have joined INSAIT as a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Yuxia Wang’s NLP research group. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Technology Sydney in 2025 and most recently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at MBZUAI. My research focuses on Large Language Models and Multimodal AI, particularly agent-based systems, multimodal reasoning, and continual learning.

For a list of my publications, please see my Google Scholar page.

Education

Postdoctoral Researcher — Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), September 2025 – September 2026

Ph.D. in Computer Science — University of Technology Sydney, January 2021 – August 2025

Master’s degree in Software Engineering — Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, September 2017 – June 2020

Bachelor’s degree in in Software Engineering — Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, September 2013 – June 2017

Relevant Experience

Research Intern / Engineer at Tencent, Baidu, ByteDance, SenseTime, Momenta, 2018–2024