# Zhaonan Li

> Ph.D. Student in Computer Science at ASU SCAI | Large (Multimodal) Language Model Reasoning

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/zhaonan

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at ASU SCAI, advised by Prof. Ben Zhou at the AI, Reasoning, and Cognition (ARC) Lab. I work in the space of NLP, LLMs, and Multi-modal reasoning.  Previously, I graduated with a Master's degree in Computer Science from Columbia University, and I obtained my Bachelor's degrees Summa Cum Laude with Highest Honors in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Brandeis University.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer Internship @ IBM
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Beijing City, China
Worked with an Agile team at IBM China Development Lab(CDL) as an intern specializing in Automated Testing and Front-end Development. 

- Designed and built an internal tool that helps testers and developers better track order status, check with databases, go through console logs, based on various criteria. Launched the web app in a dockerized environment using Node.js. Implemented with Vue.js and Spring Boot, mainly responsible for creating dynamic web pages based on data asynchronously retrieved from back-end RESTful API.

- Implemented automated testing frameworks including Robot(Python) and TestNG(Java), built UI test cases for IBM's online software system. Developed a tool for testers that converts excel based human-friendly instructions to TestNG scripts.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science in Machine Learning Track
Columbia University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Brandeis University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021

### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Computer Science
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University
Jan 2024


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zhaonan-li-635522153

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Last updated: 2026-03-21