Jiarui (Jerry) Li

Latest update on August 5, 2026
Paul Hall 309, Tulane University Chongqing, China jli78@tulane.edu
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Education

Doctorate
Tulane University
Ph.D Student in Computer Science
Research Field: Immunoinformatics & XAI
Advised by: Prof. Ramgopal 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

Check my full publication list.

Latest Work

  1. Li, J., Yin, Z., Zhang, Y., Wang, J., Landry, S. J., Ding, Z., & Mettu, R. R. (2026)
    Structure-Regularized Interpretable TCR-Epitope Prediction
    (arXiv) preprint.
    [ Paper]
  2. Li, J., Yin, Z., Landry, S. J., Ding, Z., & Mettu, R. R. (2026)
    Why Does It Look There? Structured Explanations for Image Classification
    (arXiv) preprint.
    [ Paper]

Selected Papers

  1. Li, J., Yin, Z., Smith, H., Ding, Z., Landry, S. J., & Mettu, R. R. (2026)
    Quantifying Cross-Attention Interaction in Transformers for Interpreting TCR-pMHC Binding
    (ICLR) In Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations.
    [ Paper, Web Page, Code]
  2. Yin, Z., Li, J., & Ding, Z. (2025)
    iMIND: Insightful Multi-subject Invariant Neural Decoding
    (NeurIPS) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.
    [ 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
    (ACM BCB)Oral In Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics.
    [ Paper, Web Page, Code]
  4. Li, J., Landry, S., & Mettu, R. (2024, December)
    GPU Acceleration of Conformational Stability Computation for CD4+ T-cell Epitope Prediction
    (BIBM) In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). IEEE.
    [ Paper, Web Page, Code]

Conference Orals

  1. Li, J., Yin, Z., Ding, Z., Landry, S. J., & Mettu, R. R. (2025)
    Rational Multi-Modal Transformers for TCR-pMHC Prediction
    (ACM BCB) In Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics.
  2. Li, J., Landry, S., & Mettu, R. (2024, October)
    GPU Acceleration for Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling
    (AIMLSys) 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.

Services

Conferences

YearConferenceRole
2026MLCB 2026Reviewer
2026MLSCB@ISMB 2026Reviewer
2026ICML 2026Reviewer
2026LMRL@ICLR 2026Reviewer
2026CVPR 2026Reviewer
2025ICLR 2026Reviewer

Journals

JournalRoleReview Date(s)
PLoS Computational BiologyReviewer2026/05

Grant & Funding

YearGrantAuthorityAmount
2025Harold L. and Heather E. Jurist Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence (Explainable Machine Learning for Immunotherapy)Tulane University-
2025Google Cloud Research Credits ProgramGoogle GCP$1,000.00
2024Harold L. and Heather E. Jurist Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence (Computational Epitope Prediction)Tulane University-
2024AWS Public Sector Cloud Credit for ResearchAmazon AWS$4,984.00
2023Tulane Ph.D. FundingTulane University-

Awards

YearAwardAuthorityLocation
2026CS TA AwardDepartment of Computer Science, Tulane UniversityLA, US
2026Best Research PosterDepartment of Computer Science, Tulane UniversityLA, US
2023Zhejiang Excellent GraduatesZhejiang Provincial GovernmentZhejiang, China
2022Best PerformerUniversity of Nottingham Ningbo ChinaZhejiang, China
2022President’s ScholarshipUniversity of Nottingham Ningbo ChinaZhejiang, China
2022Zhejiang Provincial ScholarshipZhejiang Provincial GovernmentZhejiang, China
2021Provost’s ScholarshipUniversity of Nottingham Ningbo ChinaZhejiang, China
2021Government Scholarship for Mobility OutNingbo Municipal GovernmentZhejiang, China

Experiences

Work Experiences

DatePositionInstitutionLocation
Aug 2024 - PresentTeaching AssistantDepartment of Computer Science,
Tulane University		LA, US
Aug 2023 - Aug 2024Research AssistantDepartment of Computer Science,
Tulane University		LA, US
June 2023 ‑ July 2023Research InternshipShanghai Institution of Materia Medica,
China Academy of Science		Shanghai, China

Teaching Experiences

SemesterCourseInstitutionRole
2026 SpringCMPS 2200 Introduction to AlgorithmTulane UniversityTeaching Assistant
2025 FallCMPS 2200 Introduction to AlgorithmTulane UniversityTeaching Assistant
2025 SpringCMPS 2200 Introduction to AlgorithmTulane UniversityTeaching Assistant
2024 FallCMPS 2200 Introduction to AlgorithmTulane UniversityTeaching Assistant

Skills

Techniques

Languages