Jindan Li

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student at Cornell University, advised by Prof. Tianyi Chen. I received my B.Eng. in Information Engineering from Zhejiang University in July 2024.

Research

My research interests include physical neural networks and analog learning systems, robust training and parameter-efficient LLM adaptation on non-ideal hardware, and reinforcement learning for wireless network optimization.

Publications

  1. Robust Parameter-Efficient LLM Adaptation on Analog Hardware

    Jindan Li, Zhaoxian Wu, Tianyi Chen

    NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on On-Device Intelligence: Foundation Models under Real-World Constraints

  2. METRO: MAP-Enhanced Twin Rollouts for Reinforcement Learning-Based Coverage and Capacity Optimization

    Jindan Li, Samuel Albert, Yan Xin, Jianzhong Zhang, Tianyi Chen

    ACM MobiHoc 2026 AI-RAN Workshop

  3. Dynamic Symmetric Point Tracking: Tackling Non-ideal Reference in Analog In-memory Training

    Quan Xiao*, Jindan Li*, Zhaoxian Wu, Tayfun Gokmen, Tianyi Chen

    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026)

  4. In-memory Training on Analog Devices with Limited Conductance States via Multi-tile Residual Learning

    Jindan Li, Zhaoxian Wu, Gaowen Liu, Tayfun Gokmen, Tianyi Chen

    International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2026)

* Equal contribution.

Experience

Samsung Research America

May 2026 – Aug 2026

Research Intern, AI Wireless Research

Worked on reinforcement learning and digital twins for wireless network coverage and capacity optimization.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Sep 2024 – Aug 2025

Research Assistant, ECSE

Worked with Prof. Tianyi Chen. Also served as a Teaching Assistant for ECSE 2500 – Engineering Probability in Spring 2025.

Education

Cornell University

Aug 2025 – Present

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

New York, NY, USA

Zhejiang University

2020 – 2024

B.Eng., Information Engineering

Hangzhou, China