Iβm Junren Li, a chemistry PhD candidate at Peking University. My advisors are Luhua Lai and Zhirong Liu, and I expect to graduate in June 2027. I received my B.S. in Chemistry from Peking University (2018β2022).
My research covers synthesis planning, chemical reasoning, and the evaluation of language models. I am increasingly interested in scientific agents: how to choose useful tasks, provide reliable feedback, and evaluate whether their work helps solve scientific problems.
I use models and coding agents throughout my work, while spending much of my own effort on choosing problems, understanding results, and deciding what needs to be checked.
Recent updates
SynCraft has been accepted by Nature Machine Intelligence.
RetroChimera has been accepted by Nature.
Selected work
Selected research experience
MSRA
Research in AI for chemistry.
Center for Algorithmic and Roboticized Synthesis, IBS
Work on algorithmic and automated synthesis.
MSR AI4S Beijing
Research in AI for chemistry.
MSR AI4S Cambridge
Research at the intersection of language models and chemistry.
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