Hi, I’m Zhiling Li
I’m a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University (MS in AI Engineering, GPA 4.0/4.0), graduating December 2026. My background spans machine learning engineering, systems programming, and robotics/embedded systems, with hands-on experience from research and industry-facing projects at CMU, SUSTech and NCSU.
I’m actively seeking MLE / SDE roles. You can reach me at [email protected] or view my profiles:
[GitHub] · [LinkedIn] · [Portfolio]
Education
Carnegie Mellon University · Aug 2025 – Dec 2026 (Expected)
M.S. in Artificial Intelligence Engineering · GPA: 4.0 / 4.0
Southern University of Science and Technology · Sep 2021 – Jun 2025
B.E. in Automation · GPA: 3.87 / 4.0, Top 3 in class; Outstanding Graduate Award
Publications
- Yixin Li, Zhiling Li, Abdullah Al Arafat, Donald Johnson, Ning Sui, Anil Gehi, Zhishan Guo. “Adaptive Model Selection for Real-Time Heart Disease Detection on Embedded Systems.” IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2025).
Awards and Honors
2025
- SUSTech Outstanding Graduate Award
2021 – 2024
- SUSTech Outstanding Student Award 2024 & 2023
- The Second Merit Scholarship 2024 & 2022
- The Third Merit Scholarship 2023
- SUSTech Freshman Comprehensive Scholarship
Competition Awards
2023
- National Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest (NUEDC) · Guangdong 2nd Prize
- National Embedded Chip and System Design Competition · 3rd Prize
- Mathematical Contest In Modeling (MCM) · Successful Participant