About Me

Working Experience

Yunqi Academy of Engineering

2021-now

Chief Scientist

Yunqi Academy of Engineering is a nonprofit organization located in Yunqi Town, Hangzhou, China.

Pennsylvania State University

2012-2021

Tenured Professor

I joined Penn State as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2012 and received tenure in 2017.

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2007-2012

Ph.D. in Computer Science

I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Jiawei Han at UIUC.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2003-2007

Bachelor in Computer Science & Engineering

I was a student in ACM honors class at SJTU.

Intern Experience

Microsoft Research

Summer 2011 @ Mountain View

Facebook

Summer 2009 @ Menlo Park

Yahoo!

Summer 2008 @ Santa Clara

Google

Summer 2006 @ Beijing

Research

NSF CAREER Award (2017)

Haile Family Early Career Professorship, Penn State (2017-2020)

Cross-disciplinary data-driven research

I collaborate with cross-disciplinary researchers and develop computational techniques to release the power of data.

City

Ecology

Environment

Traffic

Publications

I publish in data mining & machine learning & AI conferences: KDD, ICDM, AAAI, WWW, ICML, NeurIPS, and etc.

100+ publications

10000+ citations

All Publications

On Google Scholar

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Teaching

George J. McMurtry Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award, Penn State (2017)

PhD at Penn State

Huaxiu Yao (2021) Assitant Professor at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Porter Jenkins (2020) Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University

Hua Wei (2020) Assistant Professor at Arizona State University

Guanjie Zheng (2020) Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Yu-Hsuan Kuo (2018) Applied Scientist at Amazon

Hongjian Wang (2018) Staff ML Engineer at Twitter

Fei Wu (2018) Staff Research Scientist at Meta

Post Doc at Penn State

Tao Wen (PostDoc 2017-2020) Assistant Professor at Syracuse University

Classes at Penn State

IST 210 Organization of Data

IST 557 Data Mining: Techniques and Applications

Great class atmosphere, amazing professor with a drive to help her students succeed

I have previously taken this course last year and dropped out half way through the semester because I wasn’t learning anything nor did I have the drive to. Jessie is a great instructor and I learned a lot from her. She pushes you to do the work with a lot of hands on activities-which is great for learning especially in these types of classes.

It was clear that Dr. Li is very knowledgeable about the topics in this class and she is always very encouraging about our work.
From student anonymous reviews of the class

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