Hi, I am Jialu Li (李嘉璐).

I am a postdoctoral research associate in the Statistical Speech Technology Group at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Currently, I am continuing my research with my Ph.D. supervisor, Professor Mark Hasegawa-Johnson. I earned my Ph.D. from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UIUC and my bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with Highest Honors from the same institution. 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 research 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.

You can download my CV (updated May 2024) here.