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General Information
| Full Name | Charlie (Chao) Li |
| Languages | English, Mandarin (Chinese) |
Education
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2022-
PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Advisor: Prof. Dina Katabi
- Doctoral candidate since June 2026
- Concentration in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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2022-2024
MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Thesis: Automatic Sleep Assessment from Nocturnal Breathing and Its Applications for Contactless Monitoring
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Coursework
- Computer Vision
- Natural Language Processing
- Computer Networks
- Theory of Computation
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2019-2022
BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Coursework
- Deep Learning
- Computer Graphics
- Advanced Digital Signal Processing
- Electromagnetism
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Coursework
Experience
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2026-
Research Scientist Intern
FAIR, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), Menlo Park, CA
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2025
Research Scientist Intern
Meta Recommendation Systems (MRS), Menlo Park, CA
- Unified representation learning and text-to-image generation in a single pretraining framework (DREAM, NeurIPS 2026)
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2022-
PhD Candidate
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
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2021-2022
Wireless Technology Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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2019-2022
Robotics Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute
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2020-2021
Deep Learning Research Intern
Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore
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2020
Embedded Systems Intern
National University of Singapore, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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2019
Magnetic Storage Research Intern
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR, Singapore
Honors and Awards
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2026
- MIT HEALS Graduate Fellow (2026-2027)
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2023
- Wellcome Trust Fellow, MIT Jameel Clinic
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2022
- E.M. Williams Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CMU
- Honors in Research, College of Engineering, CMU
- College Honors and University Honors, CMU
- Dean's List (All Semesters)
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2021
- Finalist, Best Interactive Paper Award (IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2020)
- Highest Scorer in Engineering Category (Meeting of the Minds, Sigma Xi Poster Competition, CMU)
- Small Undergraduate Research Grant (SURG)
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Leadership
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2021-2022
President, Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), Sigma Chapter
Carnegie Mellon University (Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society)
Talks
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2026
Guest Lecture: DREAM: Unifying Contrastive and Generative Objectives for Visual Understanding and Text-to-Image Generation
CAP 6938: Special Topics (AI Knowledge Systems), University of Central Florida
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2026
Poster: Physiology as Language: Translating Respiration to EEG during Sleep
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026), Seoul, South Korea
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2022
SoftTouch: A Sensor Placement Framework for Soft Robotic Hands
Meeting of the Minds, Carnegie Mellon University
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2021
The Elliott and Connolly Benchmark: A Test for Evaluating the In-Hand Dexterity of Robot Hands
Meeting of the Minds, Carnegie Mellon University
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2021
Stabilization of Zero-Field Skyrmions in Synthetic Antiferromagnetic Multilayers
APS March Meeting
Research Interests
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Generative modeling
- Unifying representation learning and text-to-image generation
- Cross-modality generation between physiological signals
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AI for health
- Contactless, long-term health monitoring
- Sleep and neurological biomarkers from physiological signals
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Hiking, Road Trips, Sitcoms