| Apr 1, 2026 | Four papers accepted at ICML 2026; one paper on data valuation accepted at ACL 2026. |
| Mar 1, 2026 | Honoured to receive an Amazon Research Award. |
| Feb 1, 2026 | Honoured to receive a UBC Killam Research Fellowship. |
| Feb 1, 2026 | One paper accepted at Medical Image Analysis. |
| Jan 1, 2026 | Two papers on reinforcement learning and agent optimization accepted at ICLR 2026. |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Honoured to be named an Outstanding Area Chair at NeurIPS 2025. |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Honoured to receive an NVIDIA Academic Grant. |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Honoured to receive a Gemini Academic Program Award from Google. |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at UBC. |
| Sep 1, 2025 | Four papers accepted at NeurIPS 2025. |
| Jun 1, 2025 | Three papers accepted at MICCAI and ICCV 2025. |
| Mar 1, 2025 | Dr. Li is serving as an Area Chair at NeurIPS 2025. |