Li, Puyin

About Me

Hello! I am a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford University, currently rotating with Tobias Gerstenberg and Thomas Icard. Previously, I was a master's student in Symbolic Systems at Stanford, advised by Thomas Icard, and a research assistant at the Stanford Translational AI (STAI) Lab, supervised by Ehsan Adeli.

I am broadly interested in evaluating, improving, and interpreting foundation models' reasoning abilities as cognitive agents. This interest spans topics including causality, visual understanding and reasoning, mechanistic interpretability, formal methods, etc. My aim is to create powerful, faithful, and interpretable AI systems that can robustly interact with the noisy (physical) real world. I believe in cross-disciplinary collaboration in AI.

Prior to Stanford, I studied logic and argumentation with Dov Gabbay and Beishui Liao (廖备水) at ZLAIRE. I am also a Morningside Culture China Scholar at Zhejiang University, which is a life-changing program initiated by a beloved professor Shengchun Zhou (周生春).

I enjoy music and tennis. I play the piano, guitar, and bass, and I’m in a band called The Wishes. I also sing alto in the Stanford Sing++ a cappella group.