Juren Li (李举仁)

Juren Li (李举仁)

Machine Learning Engineer @ ByteDance

Juren Li (李举仁)

I work on recommendation algorithms at ByteDance. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology from Zhejiang University on June 30, 2026, advised by Prof. Yang Yang. I received my B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology from the Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University, in June 2021. My research interests include recommender systems, knowledge distillation, data mining, and machine learning for sequence data.

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News

  • 2026: Joined ByteDance to work on recommendation algorithms.
  • 2026.06.30: Received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology from Zhejiang University.
  • 2026.05: Our work Rec-Distill was released on arXiv.

Current Research

  • Large-scale recommender systems
  • Knowledge distillation for efficient recommendation models

Selected Publications

  • Rec-Distill: An Industrial Distillation Pipeline for Large-Scale Recommendation Models. Industrial knowledge distillation for transferring gains from large recommendation models to efficient serving models. Paper
  • LiPM: Foundation Model for Lithium-Ion Battery Analysis. A physics-aware foundation model for heterogeneous and irregularly sampled battery data. Paper · Code
  • DWLR: Domain Adaptation under Label Shift for Wearable Sensor. A learnable reweighting framework that handles label and feature shifts in wearable time series. Paper · Code

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Education

  • 2021.09 - 2026.06, Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
  • 2017.09 - 2021.06, Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
  • 2014.09 - 2017.06, ChongQing Yucai Secondary School, ChongQing.

Honors and Awards

  • 2025: Outstanding Reviewer, KDD 2025 (Top 10% of reviewers); Outstanding Graduate Student; Five-Star Graduate Student; Outstanding Graduate Student Leader
  • 2024: Outstanding Graduate Student; Five-Star Graduate Student; Outstanding Graduate Student Leader
  • 2021: Outstanding Graduate (Undergraduate)
  • 2020: Second-Class Scholarship (Top 8%); Five-Star Volunteer
  • 2019: Outstanding Student; First-Class Scholarship (Top 3%)
  • 2018: Outstanding Student; First-Class Scholarship (Top 3%)

Invited talks, academic service, and leadership experience are listed on the Academic Activities page.