Dr. Junyi Li is a postdoctoral associate at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). His research focuses on developing computational approaches to study complex social systems.
Before joining SMART, he earned his doctor’s degree from Zhejiang University, where his work focuses on transfer learning and physics informed learning for urban computing.
FrontierOR: Benchmarking LLMs’ Capacity for Efficient Algorithm Design in Large-Scale Optimization
Year of Publication:
Venue:
IFROS 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Minwei Kong (SMART), Chonghe Jiang (MIT), Ao Qu (MIT), Wenbin Ouyang (MIT), Zhaoming Zeng (NEU), Xiaotong Guo (Uber), Zhekai Li (MIT), Junyi Li (SMART), Yi Fan (SJTU), Xinshou Zheng (BU), Xi Jing (BU), Yikai Zhang (BU), Zhiwei Liang (Emory), Seonghoo Kim (Northwestern), Runqing Yang (BU) Zijian Zhou (NUS), Sirui Li (Microsoft), Han Zheng (MIT), Wangyang Ying (Zhiling Research), Ou Zheng (Zhiling Research),Chonghuan Wang (UT Dallas), Jinglong Zhao (BU), Hanzhang Qin (NUS), Cathy Wu (MIT), Paul Liang (MIT), Jinhua Zhao (MIT), Hai Wang (SMU)
Measuring Representational and Allocational Harms in LLM Career Recommendations
Year of Publication:
Venue:
ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Talent and Management Computing
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Junyi Li (SMART), Baoshen Guo (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
Digital Distortions: Auditing Bias in LLM-based Career Recommendations
Year of Publication:
Venue:
IEEE Intelligent Systems
2026
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Junyi Li (SMART), Baoshen Guo (SMART), Qishen Zhou (ZJU), Shenhao Wang (UF), Frank Pasquale (Cornell), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
Leveraging the Spatial Hierarchy: Coarse-to-fine Trajectory Generation via Cascaded Hybrid Diffusion
Year of Publication:
Venue:
32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Baoshen Guo (SMART), Zhiqing Hong (HKUST), Junyi Li (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
NeurIPS 2025 ScaleOPT workshop
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Minwei Kong (SMART), Ao Qu (MIT), Xiaotong Guo (MIT), Wenbin Ouyang (MIT), Chonghe Jiang (MIT), Han Zheng (MIT), Yining Ma (MIT), Dingyi Zhuang (MIT), Yuhan Tang (MIT), Junyi Li (SMART), Hai Wang (SMU), Cathy Wu (MIT), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)