Zirui Li · 李梓睿

This repository hosts my personal homepage: j1ml1.github.io.

Hi, I'm Zirui Li (李梓睿), a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, supervised by Prof. Xuefeng Bai and Prof. Kehai Chen. My current research interests include LLM reasoning, interpretability, and Latent Chain-of-Thought.

Before starting my Ph.D., I was a Master's student at the University of Manchester, working with Yizhi Li and Siwei Wu in Prof. Chenghua Lin's lab, where I focused on multimodal retrieval. I received my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, supervised by Prof. Rizos Sakellariou, and during that time I was interested in social network analysis.

Research interests

• Natural Language Processing
• LLM reasoning & efficient reasoning
• Latent Chain-of-Thought
• LLM interpretability
• Multimodal LLMs

Selected publications

• Dynamics Within Latent Chain-of-Thought — ICML 2026, Seoul, Korea
  [arXiv]
• DocMMIR: A Framework for Document Multi-modal Information Retrieval — EMNLP 2025 Findings, Suzhou, China
  [ACL Anthology]

Education

Period	Institution	Degree
Sep 2025 – present	Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen	Ph.D. in Computer Science
Sep 2021 – Jun 2025	University of Manchester	M.Eng Computer Science

Contact

• Location: Shenzhen, China
• Email: zirui.li[at]stu.hit.edu.cn
• GitHub: J1mL1
• LinkedIn: zirui-li-jim
• Hugging Face: Lord-Jim
• Instagram: lord_j1m

Tech stack

This site is a static personal homepage built with:

Layer	Tools
Framework	Astro
UI	React, Tailwind CSS
State	Nanostores
Content	Astro Content Collections (Markdown)
Deploy	GitHub Pages

Local preview:

npm install
npm run dev

License

MIT