October 5, 2025

Jiarui (Jerry) LI

🏠Address: Chongqing, China
🏢Office: Paul Hall 309, Tulane University
📫E-mail: me@jiarui.li
📫School E-mail: jli78@tulane.edu
🔗Github: https://github.com/jiarui0923/
🔗Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/li-jiarui/
🔗Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9lcAfL8AAAAJ
🔗ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1055-4424
📝Resume: http://resume.jiarui.li

💠Education

🎓 Doctorate
Tulane University
Ph.D Student in Computer Science
Research Field: Immunoinformatics & XAI
Advised by: Prof. Mettu 		Louisiana, US
Sept. 2023 - Present
🎓 Bachelor
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
BSc Hons Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence
(First Class with Honors) 		Zhejiang, China
Sept. 2019 - Jun. 2023
University of Birmingham
UG Aff Computer Science with Software Engineering
(Exchange Program) 		Birmingham, UK
Sept. 2020 - Jun. 2021

💠Publications

Conference Proceedings

  1. Li, J., Yin, Z., Smith, H., Ding, Z., Landry, S. J., & Mettu, R. R. (2025). Post-hoc Explanation for TCR-pMHC Prediction. ACM-BCB 2025:The 3rd Workshop on Advances in Systems Immunology (Accepted).
  2. Yin, Z.，Li, J., & Ding, Z. (2025). iMIND: Insightful Multi-subject Invariant Neural Decoding. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (Accepted).
    [📰 Paper, 🌐 Web Page]
  3. Li, J., Yin, Z., Ding, Z., Landry, S. J., & Mettu, R. R. (2025). Rational Multi-Modal Transformers for TCR-pMHC Prediction. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (Accepted).
    [📰 Paper,🌐 Web Page,📦 Code]
  4. Paynter, A., Li, J., Carbullido, M., Mettu, R., Landry, S., & Gragert, L. (2025). 370 Improving risk stratification in kidney transplant outcomes by modeling antigen processing to inform prediction of T-cell epitopes derived from mismatched HLA proteins. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 9(s1), 114-115.
    [📰 Paper]
  5. Li, J., Landry, S., & Mettu, R. (2024, December). GPU Acceleration of Conformational Stability Computation for CD4+ T-cell Epitope Prediction. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). IEEE.
    [📰 Paper,🌐 Web Page,📦 Code]
  6. Li, J., Landry, S., & Mettu, R. (2024, October). GPU Acceleration for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on AI-ML Systems. ACM.
    [📰 Paper]
  7. Li, J., Ji, R., Yang, X., Li, J., Li, Y., Xiong, X., … & Cui, T. (2023, December). Prediction of Flight Arrival Delay Time Using US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. In 2023 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (pp. 603-608). IEEE.
    [📰 Paper]
  8. Ji, R., Li, J., He, W., Ren, J., & Jiang, X. (2023, June). Dual-Stream Siamese Vision Transformer With Mutual Attention For Radar Gait Verification. In ICASSP 2023-2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
    [📰 Paper]

Preprints

  1. Li, J., Yin, Z., Ding, Z., Landry, S. J., & Mettu, R. R. (2025). TCR-EML: Explainable Model Layers for TCR-pMHC Prediction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.04377.
    [📰 Paper]
  2. Li, J., Yin, Z., Smith, H., Ding, Z., Landry, S. J., & Mettu, R. R. (2025). Quantifying Cross-Attention Interaction in Transformers for Interpreting TCR-pMHC Binding. arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.03197.
    [📰 Paper]

Conference Orals

  1. 📰 Li, J., Yin, Z., Ding, Z., Landry, S. J., & Mettu, R. R. (2025). Rational Multi-Modal Transformers for TCR-pMHC Prediction. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (Accepted).
  2. 📰 Li, J., Landry, S., & Mettu, R. (2024, October). GPU Acceleration for Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on AI-ML Systems. ACM.
  3. 📰 Li, J., Landry, S., & Mettu, R. (2024, June). GPU Acceleration of Conformational Stability Computation for CD4+ T Cell Epitope Prediction. In Next Gen. Conversations: Albany at Tech 2024: The 21st Conversation. Albany.

💠Grant & Funding

Year Grant Authority Amount
2025 🏅Google Cloud Research Credits Program Google GCP $1,000.00
2024 🏅AWS Public Sector Cloud Credit for Research Amazon AWS $4,984.00
2023 🏅Tulane Ph.D. Funding Tulane University -

💠Awards

Year Award Authority Location
2023 🏆Zhejiang Excellent Graduates Zhejiang Provincial Government Zhejiang, China
2022 🏆Best Performer University of Nottingham Ningbo China Zhejiang, China
2022 🏆President’s Scholarship University of Nottingham Ningbo China Zhejiang, China
2022 🏆Zhejiang Provincial Scholarship Zhejiang Provincial Government Zhejiang, China
2021 🏆Provost’s Scholarship University of Nottingham Ningbo China Zhejiang, China
2021 🏆Government Scholarship for Mobility Out Ningbo Municipal Government Zhejiang, China

💠Experiences

Work Experiences

🗃️ Computer Science Department, Tulane University

Teaching Assistant
New Orleans, LA, US
Aug 2024 - Present

Research Assistant
New Orleans, LA, US
Aug 2023 - Aug 2024

🗃️ Shanghai Institution of Materia Medica, China Academy of Science

Internship
Shanghai, China
June 2023 ‑ July 2023

Research Experiences

🔬 T-Cell Receptor (TCR) Modeling

New Orleans, LA, US
July 2024 - Present

🔬 COREX Optimization

Computer Science, Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA, US
Aug 2023 - Present

🔬 Machine Learning Based Radar Gait Verification

University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Zhejiang, China
Sept 2022 ‑ Jan 2023

🔬 Enantiomeric Excess Prediction with Machine Learning

University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Zhejiang, China
July 2021 ‑ May 2023

💠Skills

Techniqual

Languages

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