Shilun Li

I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Mathematics at UC Berkeley advised by Prof. Venkatesan Guruswami. Previously, I graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics with honors and a concurrent Master's degree in Computer Science.

Research

My research interest lies broadly in Coding Theory, Automatic Theory Proving and Machine Learning.

Selected Publications
A Deterministic Construction of a Large Distance Code from the
Wozencraft Ensemble
Venkatesan Guruswami*, Shilun Li*

RANDOM 2023 [Paper] (*: Equal Contribution. Alphabetical order.)

Dynamics and Probability in the Toss of a Coin with Symmetric
Inhomogeneous Density
Shilun Li

Submitted [Paper]

Experience
Distinctions

Departmental Honors in Mathematics, Stanford University, 2022 (20 out of 120)
Top three at Stanford, Biological Interdisciplinary Open Maker Environment Biohackathon, 2018 (top 3 out of 25)
Special Award from the American Math Society, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, 2017 (the world’s largest pre-college STEM competition)
Best High School Student of the Year, awarded by All-China Students' Federation, 2017 (top 10 out of 170k in the country)
First Prize, Provincial Adolescent Science and Technology Innovation Contest, 2014 & 2016 (top 5 out of 400 in the province)
Outstanding Gold Award in Science, Gold Award in Mathematics in World’s Final, Shing-Tung Yau Science Award, 2016 (first out of 5800, China's largest STEM competition)

Education
  • Ph.D. student, UC Berkeley, Mathematics, 2022-Present
  • M.S., Stanford University, Computer Science, 2020-2022
  • B.S., Stanford University, Mathematics, 2018-2022