Chen Li
Last update on September 16, 2024. [pdf]
CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: chenli@icecube.wisc.edu
GitHub: https://github.com/ChenLi2049
Personal Website: https://chenli2049.github.io
Chamberlin Hall, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 53706
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. candidate in Physics
Sep 2024 - Present
Adviser: Dr. Francis Halzen
Wuhan University
B.S. in Physics, GPA: 3.81/4.00
Sep 2020 - June 2024
PUBLICATIONS
C. Li, H. Cai, X. Y. Jiang. Refine neutrino events reconstruction with BEiT-3[J]. Journal of Instrumentation, 2024, 19(06): T06003. [arXiv]
C. Li, H. Y. Ma, X. Y. Jiang. Modification on refitting ammeter using compensation method[J]. (in Chinese, submitted to journal)
TALKS
Transformer Model for Neutrino Events Reconstruction: ISeeCube [slides]
IceCube Collaboration Meeting Fall 2024
Sep 2024
ISeeCube and Auxiliary [slides]
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sep 2024
ISeeCube and Auxiliary [slides]
Tsung-Dao Lee Institute
July 2024
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant
Wuhan University
Sep 2023 - June 2024
Introductory Machine Learning. I mainly teach how to write Machine Learning code in practice and answer questions from students. The teaching material that I wrote are summarized into these blog posts: Wow It Fits! — Secondhand Machine Learning, Machine Learning Notes: RNN, LSTM, GRU, RWKV, Machine Learning Notes: GNN, GraphNeT, Machine Learning Notes: Maximum Likelihood, Cross Entropy.
Adviser: Dr. Xianyang Jiang
WORKING EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant
Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center
Aug 2024 - Present
Adviser: Dr. Francis Halzen
Class President
University of Cambridge
Aug 2022
Introductory Astronomy. I mainly organize class affairs, communicate with the teacher and write preview notes before lectures. Presentation from our group can be found here.
Adviser: Dr. Matthew Bothwell
PROJECTS
ISeeCube
Aug 2023
Neutrino Events Reconstruction with Transformer. When having relatively same amount of total parameters, it outperforms other Transformer models. [code]
Chinese translation of PEP 8
May 2023
Get familiar with Python syntax and, weirdly, Markdown indentation. [code]
Dr. Slidelove
Apr 2023
Write in Markdown, then present with offline HTML pages. [code]
Reproduce the X-ray variability of a microquasar
Dec 2022
Use Python to solve stochastic differential equations and visualize the result. [code]
HONORS AND AWARDS
Academic Scholarship, Wuhan University
2021, 2022, 2023
First Prize, Third Wuhan University College Student Academic Forum
2021
COMPUTER SKILLS
Familiar: Python, C++, Markdown, $\LaTeX$
Getting familiar: Mojo, Rust, R, HTML, CSS