Ruizhe Li is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Aberdeen - South China Normal University (SCNU) Joint Institute in the School of Natural Computing Sciences/Business School, the University of Aberdeen. He is associated with Natural Language Processing (NLP) group, the Machine Learning (ML) group and Edinburgh clinical NLP group. He was a postdoc research fellow in the Web Intelligence Group, affiliated with the Centre for Artificial Intelligence in the University College London (UCL). He received his PhD from the Sheffield NLP group, the Department of Computer Science in the University of Sheffield. He completed his bachelor degree BEng Electronic Information & Engineering in the Shanghai University, China.

Research Interests: Multimodality LLMs, Interpretability of LLMs.

I am looking for highly motivated PhD students interested in NLP and ML.
CSC PhD scholarship is available for Chinese students, please check Aberdeen CSC for more information.
Visiting research positions are also available, please contact me for more information.

News

• Jul 24, 2025 - ARC-JSD is accepted at COLM 2025 Interplay and XLLM-Reason-Plan workshops
• Jul 16, 2025 - I will serve as IJCNLP-AACL 2025 Student Research Workshop Mentor
• Jul 2, 2025 - One paper (Oral) accepted at NLPCC 2025
• Jun 30, 2025 - One paper accepted at IEEE SMC 2025
• May 23, 2025 - New work coming! Attributing Response to Context: A Jensen-Shannon Divergence Driven Mechanistic Study of Context Attribution in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• May 15, 2025 - Two papers accepted at ACL 2025 (one findings and one main oral conference)
• Apr 9, 2025 - I will serve as Area Chair at NeurIPS 2025
• Apr 3, 2025 - I will serve as Area Chair at EMNLP 2025
• Mar 17, 2025 - I will serve as Senior PC at CIKM 2025 Full Paper, Short Paper and Resource Track
• Mar 14, 2025 - I was awarded as a Fellow of Advance HE (FHEA)
• Jan 31, 2025 - I will serve as Area Chair at ACL 2025
• Jan 22, 2025 - One paper accepted at NAACL 2025
• Dec 29, 2024 - I will serve as Area Chair at ARR December 2024 cycle
• Dec 2, 2024 - I will serve as Area Chair at NAACL 2025
• Nov 29, 2024 - I will serve as one of the PhD and ECR Forum Chair for Healthcare Text Analytics Conference (HealTAC) 2025
• Nov 15, 2024 - Honored with Outstanding Reviewers at EMNLP 2024
• Nov 7, 2024 - One paper accepted at JMIR AI Journal
• Aug 21, 2024 - Honored to receive Gemma 2 Academic Program GCP Credit Award from Google as PI, $10,000
• Aug 5, 2024 - One paper accepted at NLPCC 2024
• Jul 22, 2024 - One paper accepted at ICCE 2024
• Jul 5, 2024 - Awesome Interpretability in LLMs GitHub repo built to collect all relevant resources
• Jun 25, 2024 - Honored to receive Best Poster Award 🏆 at the 2nd Workshop on Multimodal AI 2024
• Jun 19, 2024 - One paper accepted at LSGCS2 2024
• Jun 4, 2024 - One paper accepted at Interspeech 2024
• May 23, 2024 - New work coming! Anchored Answers: Unravelling Positional Bias in GPT-2's Multiple-Choice Questions
• May 16, 2024 - Three papers accepted at ACL 2024 (two findings and one main conference)
• May 9, 2024 - One paper accepted at ICIC 2024
• Apr 3, 2024 - I will serve as senior program committee member for CIKM 2024 (Short Paper Track + Demo and Resources Track)
• Mar 28, 2024 - Honored to receive The Royal Society International Exchanges 2023 Cost Share (NSFC) as PI, £24,000, 2024-2026
• Jan 16, 2024 - Two papers accepted at ICLR 2024 (one poster, one spotlight)
• Dec 14, 2023 - One paper accepted at ECIR 2024
• Dec 7, 2023 - I will serve as one of the PhD and ECR Forum Chair for Healthcare Text Analytics Conference (HealTAC) 2024
• Jul 11, 2023 - Honored to receive ACL 2023 Area Chair Award 🏆
• Jun 23, 2023 - I will serve as senior program committee member for CIKM 2023 (Resources Track)
• May 2, 2023 - Two papers accepted at ACL 2023
• Apr 28, 2023 - I will give an invited talk at MAISoN workshop of IJCAI 2023, in Macao
• Apr 19, 2023 - One paper accepted at IJCAI 2023
• Feb 16, 2023 - One paper accepted at ICASSP 2023
• Feb 16, 2023 - Invited tutorial "Natural Language Processing & Computer Vision Foundation" to Shanghai University
• Jul 14, 2022 - Invited talk "Deep Latent Variable Models for Text Modelling" to Aberdeen - South China Normal University (SCNU) Joint Institute