Faculty

Jerry Li is an associate professor (without tenure) at the University of Washington. Previously, Li was a principal research scientist at Microsoft Research Redmond.

In Fall 2018 Li was the VMware Research Fellow at the Simons Institute. He did his Ph.D at MIT, where he was fortunate to work with Ankur Moitra. He also did his masters at MIT under the wonderful supervision of Nir Shavit.

Li’s primary research interests are in learning theory, (very) broadly defined, including quantum information theory, the science of large foundation models, and high-dimensional statistics. He particularly likes applications of analysis and analytic techniques to TCS problems.

As an undergrad at the University of Washington, Li worked on complexity of branching programs, and how we could prove hardness of techniques used for naturally arising learning problems in database theory and AI.