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General Information
Full Name | Jianan Li (ęčæ¦å) |
Prefered Name | Canal |
Education
- 2023-2028
CS Ph.D.
UC Berkeley, Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR)
- AI+BIO track
- 2019-2022
Bachelor of Science
Cornell University
- Computer Science With Honors / Bioengineering
- Magna Cum Laude
- 2018-2019
Undergraduate
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Majored in Bioengineering
Research Experience
- 2022
Machine Learning Intern
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, UIUC
- Advised by Prof. Huimin Zhao and Prof. Yunan Luo
- Topic: Protein Engineering and Enzyme Function Annotations
- 2020 - 2022
Research Assistant
Cornell University
- Advised by Prof. Chris De Sa
- Topic: High-precision DL, Hyperbolic Embedding, Scalable Markov Chain Monte Carlo
- Advised by Prof. Buz Barstow
- Topic: Deep Learning algorithm for Knockout Sudoku
- Advised by Prof. Zhenglong Gu
- Topic: Site-directed Mitochondrial RNA editing with ADAR (wet-lab)
- 2018 - 2019
Research Assistant
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Advised by Prof. Prof. Huimin Zhao
- Topic: CRISPR-AID system, Chemoenzymatic catalysis (wet-lab)
Honors and Awards
- 2024
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Honorable Mention
- 2023 - 2024
- UC Berkeley The Anselmo J. Macchi Fellowship Fund for Graduate Students in Engineering
- 2019 - 2022
- Cornell Engineering College Dean's List
- 2021
- Cornell Engineering Learning Initiative Research Award
- 2018 - 2019
- UIUC Engineering College Dean's List