Bio

Hi! My name is Tianda Li. I am currently an applied research scientist with both backgrounds of research and engineer(Canada). I got my M.A.Sc degree from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen’s University (Canada), supervised by Prof. Xiaodan Zhu.

My main research interests including natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning, and I am particularly interested in knowledge distillation and dialogues. I received my bachelor’s degree from the college of computer and control engineering at Nankai University in 2018.

Experience

• 2023.3 to present : Senior applied research scientist in ServiceNow-ATG
• 2022.2. to 2023.2 : ML Engineer in Cerebras Inc.
• 2020.11. to 2021.2 : ML Researcher in HUAWEI Noah’s Ark Lab.
• 2020.9. to 2020.11. : Machine learning engineer in Livnao Inc.
• 2018.9 - 2020.9: Research Assistant Text Analytics and Machine Learning Lab (TAML), Queen’s University
  Supervised by Prof. Xiaodan Zhu
• 2017.9 - 2018.5: Exchange student at École centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France

Shared Tasks

• 2019 Rank first, first, third and fourth on subtasks of Dialog System Technology Challenges 8 (DSTC 8)