Millicent Li

(she/her/hers)

PhD student

Millicent Li
  • Human-computer interaction 
  • Natural language processing 
  • Healthcare
  • BS in Computer Science, University of Washington 

Millicent Li is a PhD student at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. She earned her bachelor’s in computer science from the University of Washington. She is affiliated with the Northeastern Natural Language Processing Research Group. 

Li’s PhD research area is natural language processing and human-computer interaction, and her faculty advisor is Byron Wallace. Her research is at the intersection of NLP, HCI, and healthcare, and although still new, she is broadly interested in building human-AI collaborative systems in and out of healthcare that are receptive to both domain experts and laymen. Additionally, she is interested in interpretability and explain ability and language modeling.

She was previously an AI resident at Fundamental AI Research, and an NSF GFRP recipient.

Outside of work, she enjoys learning how to play new instruments. 

Li grew up in Wichita, Kansas. 

  • Function Vectors in Large Language Models

    Citation: Eric Todd, Millicent L. Li, Arnab Sen Sharma, Aaron Mueller, Byron C. Wallace, David Bau. (2024). Function Vectors in Large Language Models ICLR. https://openreview.net/forum?id=AwyxtyMwaG