I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Irwin King (ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAI Fellow). Prior to that, I received my B.Eng. degree in Artificial Intelligence from Qian Xuesen Honors College at Xi’an Jiaotong University.
I am particularly interested in knowledge representation and reasoning, recommender systems, and agentic AI.
I’m still working on something that I can present, and for now, I may just share a quote that I really like.
“Why do we have to listen to our hearts?” the boy asked.
“Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.”
Any discussion, collaboration, and mentoring (both giving and receiving) are very welcome, and I can be reached at liyifan@link.cuhk.edu.hk.
Publications
Wenhao Yu, Shaohang Wei, Jiahong Liu, Yifan Li, Minda Hu, Aiwei Liu, Hao Zhang, Irwin King ICML 2026
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Yifan Li, Jiahong Liu, Xinni Zhang, Hao Chen, Yankai Chen, Wenhao Yu, Jianting Chen, Irwin King WWW 2026 (Oral)
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Muzhi Li, Jinhu Qi, Yihong Wu, Minghao Zhao, Liheng Ma, Yifan Li, Xinyu Wang, Yingxue Zhang, Ho-fung Leung, Irwin King KDD 2026
NeurIPS 2025 Efficient Reasoning Workshop
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Chunyu Miao, Henry Peng Zou, Yangning Li, Yankai Chen, Yibo Wang, Fangxin Wang, Yifan Li, Wooseong Yang, Bowei He, Xinni Zhang, Dianzhi Yu, Hanchen Yang, Hoang H Nguyen, Yue Zhou, Jie Yang, Jizhou Guo, Wenzhe Fan, Chin-Yuan Yeh, Panpan Meng, Liancheng Fang, Jinhu Qi, Wei-Chieh Huang, Zhengyao Gu, Yuwei Han, Langzhou He, Yuyao Yang, Xue Liu, Irwin King, Philip S. Yu ICLR 2026
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Teaching
Teaching Assistant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2026
Teaching Assistant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2025
Teaching Assistant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2025
Teaching Assistant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2024
