Welcome! I will be joining the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) as a PhD student, jointly supervised by Prof. Maksym Andriushchenko and Prof. Rediet Abebe. I recently completed my master’s in computer science at ETH Zurich majoring in machine intelligence and minoring in theoretical computer science. I have previously worked with Prof. Zhijing Jin, Prof. Joni Pajarinen, and Prof. Pulkit Agrawal on various projects. I obtained my B.A. degrees in computer science and physics with a concentration in astrophysics at Colby College where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Ying Li. I am also a UWC alumnus.
Research Interests
News
Publications
Decomposing and Measuring Evaluation Awareness
Changling Li, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Jie Zhang, Zhijing Jin, Florian Tramèr, Sahar Abdelnabi, Maksym Andriushchenko
Code / HuggingFace / arXiv / Tweet
Safe Models Do Not Guarantee Safe Societies
David Guzman Piedrahita, Changling Li, Dave Banerjee, Terry Zhang, Kevin Blin, Samuel Simko, Punya Pandey, Irene Strauss, Rada Mihalcea, Bernhard Schölkopf, Zhijing Jin
Agent-to-Agent Theory of Mind: Testing Interlocutor Awareness among Large Language Models
Ethan Choi*, Changling Li*, Yongjin Yang, Zhijing Jin
Code / Poster / Presentation / arXiv / Tweet
ROER: Regularized Optimal Experience Replay
Changling Li, Zhang-Wei Hong, Pulkit Agrawal, Divyansh Garg, Joni Pajarinen
Code / Poster / Presentation / arXiv
Scaling Up Energy-Aware Multiagent Reinforcement Learning for Mission-Oriented Drone Networks With Individual Reward (Bachelor Honors Thesis)
Changling Li, Ying Li
Ying Li, Changling Li, Jiyao Chen, Christine Roinou
Honors & Scholarships
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Pi Sigma, UWC Davis Scholar, Magna Cum Laude (top 5%), Dean’s List, Distinction in both majors (Computer Science & Physics)
Scholarships: UWC National Committee Scholarship, UWC Davis Scholarship, Colby College Institutional Grant
Academic Service
Workshop Organization
- Co-organizer, AI4GOOD Workshop at NeurIPS 2026 and ICML 2026
Reviewer
- European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL), 2026
- Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC), 2025, 2026
Teaching
Teaching Assistant, University of Tübingen, 2026
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Colby College, 2019 - 2022
- CS 353 Interactive System
- CS 251 Data Analysis and Visualization
- CS 231 Data Structure and Algorithm
- CS 152 Computational Thinking: Science
- CS 151 Computational Thinking: Visual Media
Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Colby College, 2019 - 2021
- PH 241 Modern Physics I
- PH 242 Modern Physics II
Beyond Research
Outside research, I enjoy watching films (particularly horrors), playing squash, and rowing.
Before I got into machine learning, I was an art student. You can find my artwork here:
Last updated: October 15, 2026