Jia Li (李佳)

I am the tenure-track Assistant Professor of College of AI at Tsinghua University. I obtained my PhD degree from Peking University in 2025, supervised by Prof. Zhi Jin and Prof. Ge Li.

I lead the Tsinghua Foundation Models and Agents Group and work closely with Prof. Shi-Min Hu. Recently, our research group has been focusing on the following areas:

  • Foundation Models: Designing novel model architectures, training/inference algorithms, and evaluation benchmarks for foundation models (including language models and multi-modal models). We are particularly interested in improving the reasoning ability, planning ability, tool-calling ability, and safety of foundation models.
  • Agents: Developing powerful agents in digital and physical worlds, such as software engineering agents, AI scientists, and embodied agents.

I am looking for highly-motivated interns to join my group. Feel free to email me with your resume attached.


News
2025
Our paper (DAVSP) has been accepted by AAAI 2026.
Nov 08
Our paper (AdapTrack) has been accepted by ICSE 2026.
Oct 16
Our paper (M2CVD) has been accepted by TOSEM 2025.
Oct 09
Our paper (aiXcoder-7B-v2) has been accepted by ASE 2025.
Sep 26
Congratulations! Four of our papers were accepted by NeurIPS 2025, including one Spotlight and three Poster papers!
Sep 19
I joined the College of AI at Tsinghua University as an assistant professor!
Aug 01
I passed the defense of my PhD thesis!
May 22
Congratulation, our two papers are accepted by ACL 2025!
May 16
Our paper Line-level Semantic Structure Learning for Code Vulnerability Detection has been accepted by Internetware 2025.
Apr 16
Our paper Escalating LLM-based Code Translation Benchmarking into the Class-level Era has been accepted by ISSTA 2025.
Feb 28
Selected Publications (view all )
SATURN: SAT-based Reinforcement Learning to Unleash Language Model Reasoning

Huanyu Liu, Jia Li, Hao Zhu, Yihong Dong, Kechi Zhang, Ge Li

The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), Just Accepted, 2025 Spotlight (3.2%)

SATURN: SAT-based Reinforcement Learning to Unleash Language Model Reasoning

Huanyu Liu, Jia Li, Hao Zhu, Yihong Dong, Kechi Zhang, Ge Li

The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), Just Accepted, 2025 Spotlight (3.2%)

aiXcoder-7B: A Lightweight and Effective Large Language Model for Code Processing

Siyuan Jiang*, Jia Li*, He Zong, Huanyu Liu, Hao Zhu, Shukai Hu, Erlu Li, Jiazheng Ding, Yu Han, Wei Ning, Ge Li (* equal contribution)

The 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025 SEIP Track), Pages 215-226, 2025 Oral

aiXcoder-7B: A Lightweight and Effective Large Language Model for Code Processing

Siyuan Jiang*, Jia Li*, He Zong, Huanyu Liu, Hao Zhu, Shukai Hu, Erlu Li, Jiazheng Ding, Yu Han, Wei Ning, Ge Li (* equal contribution)

The 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025 SEIP Track), Pages 215-226, 2025 Oral

EvoCodeBench: An Evolving Code Generation Benchmark with Domain-Specific Evaluations

Jia Li, Ge Li, Xuanming Zhang, Yihong Dong, Zhi Jin, Binhua Li, Fei Huang, Yongbin Li

The 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024 D&B Track), 2024

EvoCodeBench: An Evolving Code Generation Benchmark with Domain-Specific Evaluations

Jia Li, Ge Li, Xuanming Zhang, Yihong Dong, Zhi Jin, Binhua Li, Fei Huang, Yongbin Li

The 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024 D&B Track), 2024

Structured Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Code Generation

Jia Li, Ge Li, Yongmin Li, Zhi Jin

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 1-23, 21 January 2025

Structured Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Code Generation

Jia Li, Ge Li, Yongmin Li, Zhi Jin

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 1-23, 21 January 2025

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