Liliang Ren

Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI Superintelligence Team

Role
Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft
Location
Urbana, IL, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Liliang Ren

Hi! I am currently a Member of Technical Staff in Microsoft AI Superintelligence Team. I earned my PhD in computer science from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Chengxiang Zhai, and work with Prof. Heng Ji and Prof. Julia Hockenmaier. My long-term research goal is to develop artifical neural architectures that have superhuman efficiency and interpretability, and apply them to discover new structured knowledge from natural signals. Specifically, I am interested in:1. Efficient and Interpretable Sequence Modeling: dynamic and modular sparsity for long sequence modeling, language modeling with latent type learning.2. Structured Text Generation: text-to-graph extraction, dialogue state tracking and generation.Please checkout my homepage (https://renll.github.io/) for more information.

Experience

  1. Member of Technical Staff

    Microsoft

    Oct 2025 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

    Microsoft AI Superintelligence Team. Pre-training OpenAI models.

Education

  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    PhD, Computer Science

    2020

  • Ningbo Xiaoshi High School

    High School Diploma

  • UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

    Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering

    2014 — 2018

  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University

    Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • UC San Diego

    Master's degree, ECE

    2018 — 2020

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