Effy Xue Li.

Hi! I’m Effy, you can also call me 李雪 [lǐ xuě]. I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at CWI Amsterdam, in the TRL lab, led by dr. ir. Madelon Hulsebos. I am interested in the topic of evaluating and building Agentic Data Science.

I did my PhD at University of Amsterdam in INDE lab, supervised by Prof. Paul Groth and Dr. Jan-Christoph Kalo. During my PhD, I did an internship at MotherDuck on data wrangling with LLMs. Previously I was an AI resident at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK. Before that I did my Master’s at University of Edinburgh.

My PhD topic was on Knowledge Graph Construction from Conversational Data. Specifically, I look into how we can better utilize (large) language models to extract information such as entities and relations, and furthermore, make (large) language models more data-efficient, robust and adaptable. My PhD research was funded and situated in an NWO project IN-SIGHT.it.

I am originally from China and have lived in the UK and the Netherlands. When I am not in front of my laptop, you can often find me bouldering (at a complete beginner level), cycling or drinking coffee (like everyone else :D). If you are keen to collaborate or exchange ideas over a coffee, you can reach out to me at effy DOT li AT cwi DOT nl.