Yingcong Li
Assistant Professor - Natural Language Processing, Data Science
Education
Ph.D.; University of Michigan; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; 2025

M.S.; University of California, Riverside; Electrical and Computer Engineering; 2020

B.S.; University of Science and Technology of China; Electrical Engineering and Information Science; 2019

2026 Fall Courses
DS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

DS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

DS 701C - MASTER'S THESIS

DS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES

DS 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

DS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

DS 680 - NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

DS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN DS

DS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

CS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES

Past Courses
CS 474: INTRO TO GENAI - HONORS

DS 680: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Conference Paper
"Memory as a Markov Matrix: Sample Efficient Knowledge Expansion via Token-to-Dictionary Mapping"
Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2026.