Hi, I am Jialu Li (李嘉璐).

I am a final-year PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Before that, I earned my bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with Highest Honors at UIUC. I am working with Professor Mark Hasegawa-Johnson at the Statistical Speech Technology Group. I am also closely collaborating with Professor Nancy L. McElwain at the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. 

I have interned at Meta AI Research (Summer '21 and '22) and Amazon Web Services (Summer '23) to conduct research on automatic speech recognition.

My doctoral work centers on interdisciplinary speech applications related to children’s speech and multilingual technology, at the intersection of psychology, healthcare, and linguistics. Specifically, my primary focus has been developing artificial intelligence (AI)-powered emerging clinical applications of (1) monitoring infant psychological development and (2) identifying children who are at risk of autism based on automatic analysis of their vocalizations.

I'm in the academic and industrial job market for the 2023-2024 academic year. I'm looking for assistant professor or research scientist/applied scientist roles. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have potential opportunities.

You may find my [CV (updated April 2024)], [Research Statement], [Teaching Statement], and [Diversity Statement] here.