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Tian Li

Distributed Optimization Federated Learning Trustworthy Machine Learning Principled Learning Algorithms
University of Chicago Department of Computer Science

About

Tian Li is an Assistant Professor of computer science. Her research centers around distributed optimization, federated learning, and trustworthy ML. She is interested in designing, analyzing, and evaluating principled learning algorithms, taking into account practical constraints, to address issues related to accuracy, scalability, trustworthiness, and their interplays. Tian received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to CMU, she received her undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Peking University. She received the Best Paper Award at the ICLR Workshop on Secure Machine Learning Systems, was invited to participate in the EECS Rising Stars Workshop, and was recognized as a Rising Star in Machine Learning/Data Science by multiple institutions.

Research Performance Summary

43
Total Papers
25407
Total Citations
20
H-Index
2017-2026
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

An overreaction to the broken machine learning abstraction: The ease. ml vision

Year: 2017

Citations: 10

Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics

Latest Recorded Paper

Asynchronous Heavy-Tailed Optimization

Year: 2026

Citations: 0

Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.18002

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2026
1
2025
8
2024
5
2023
1
2022
8
2021
7
2020
5
2019
3
2018
4
2017
1

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 24
Journal 2
Book 1

Top Coauthors

Smith Zaheer Sanjabi

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 9
Citations 20
Avg. Citations / Paper 2.2
H-Index 2

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 26
Citations 11805
Avg. Citations / Paper 454
H-Index 16

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 8
Citations 13582
Avg. Citations / Paper 1697.8
H-Index 7

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

litian@uchicago.edu

Detected Research Keywords

Diverse Client Selection Client Selection Federated Selection Federated Learning Tilted Empirical Risk Private Adaptive Optimization Ease Ml Lifecycle Ml Lifecycle Management Lifecycle Management System Management System Mldev System Mldev Mlops