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Hang Li

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Chief Scientist of AIR at Tsinghua UniversitySenior Technical Advisor at ByteDance

Li helped establish learning to rank, the methods search engines use to order results by relevance, and wrote a widely used textbook on the subject. His research also spans language processing and large-scale machine learning.

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Background

Current roles
Chief Scientist of AIR Jul 2026-present
Senior Technical Advisor May 2026-present
Previously
Sep 2022-Apr 2026Head of Research,
Sep 2017-Sep 2022Director of AI Lab,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 9, 2026

Citation Trend

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Jun 15, '2639,09537,05235,008Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26
39,095citations as of Jun 15, '26+4,087 since Aug 25, '25
For today’s citation count and citations per paper, visit Google Scholar.