Hello I'm
Jonathan Li
I’ve been messing around making what I
think is cool stuff—machine learning, design compilers—for the past eight (8) years.
who am i?
I’m Jonathan, canadian researcher, designer, computer programmer, entrepreneur, gymgoer, piano player...
I started coding eight years ago when I was captivated by the magic behind a neural network. I used to work at Cohere on synthetic data and reasoning. Now I'm building a company (with my brother again).
I’ve always been interested in the existential questions—which is likely why my interests bounce around so often, from AI to physics to entrepreneurship—though I’m honestly unlikely to succeed, at least on my own.

obligatory publication list
prior to Cohere, I published a few papers
@ Queen’s U, with Prof. Xiaodan Zhu
Association of Computational Linguistics 2023 (ACL 2023)
Jonathan Li, Will Aitken, Rohan Bhambhoria, Xiaodan Zhu
Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2022 (NLLP @ EMNLP 2022)
Jonathan Li, Rohan Bhambhoria, Xiaodan Zhu
arXiv preprint (2024)
Rohan Bhambhoria, Samuel Dahan, Jonathan Li, Xiaodan Zhu
Workshop on Generative AI and Law '24 (GenLaw @ ICML 2024)
Jonathan Li, Rohan Bhambhoria, Samuel Dahan, Xiaodan Zhu
some website designs
A few years ago I started Riftium, a web design firm, with my brother.
climate-institutions.orglanding and conference page for the Institutions & Effective Climate Action project
selected personal/hackathon projects
...from a while back (2019-2023).
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3rd @ hack the change
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1st @ hack3
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2nd @ jamhacks
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1st @ see you later, hackulator
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1st @ wafflehacks


