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About Me


I am a senior machine learning scientist at TikTok working with the core feed recommendation team. I build large-scale recommendation models to improve user experience on TikTok ForU page.

Before joining TikTok, I received my PhD degree in Department of Computer Science at University of Chicago. I work in SAND Lab, co-advised by Prof. Ben Y. Zhao and Prof. Heather Zheng. I received my Bachelor's degree from School of Computer science, Fudan University in June, 2017. My research interests are generally security and privacy issues in Machine Learning especially Deep Learning. I am also interested in security and privacy of Networks and Systems such as Internet of Things (IoT).

I am a recipient of Facebook Fellowship (2020), ACM CHI Honorable Mention Award (2020), and Siebel Scholarship (class of 2021). I spent my summer with the Security + AI SIP Group @ Microsoft Research in 2020. I'm working with AI Security Team @ Meta as an intern this summer (2022).

Contact Me


1199 Coleman Ave,
San Jose, CA 95110

huiyingli[dot]email[at]gmail[dot]com