Huimin Ren
Senior Algorithm Engineer · Li Auto Inc.
Huimin Ren is a Senior Algorithm Engineer at Li Auto Inc., working on large language model post-training and agent capabilities. She received her Ph.D. in Data Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in 2022, supervised by Prof. Yanhua Li. During her doctoral studies, she was a Research Intern at JD Intelligent City Research Institute, mentored by Prof. Yu Zheng (IEEE Fellow). She has published 14+ papers at top-tier venues including KDD, AAAI, ACL, ICDE, and SIGSPATIAL, with 300+ citations. She holds 10+ invention patents (2 granted). She serves as a PC member for AAAI, WWW, BigData, and CIKM, and as a reviewer for KDD, TITS, TKDE, TBD, and TDS.
Research Interests
General Large Model Post-training
Reinforcement Learning
Spatio-temporal Data Mining and Urban Computing
Experience
Li Auto Inc.
Senior Algorithm Engineer, Foundation Model – Language Intelligence
Jun 2023 – Present
JD Group
Research Intern, JD Intelligent City Research Institute
Aug 2020 – Dec 2022
Education
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Ph.D. in Data Science
Aug 2018 – Dec 2022
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
M.S. in Data Science
Aug 2016 – May 2018
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
B.S. in Financial Intelligence (Guanghua Honors Program)
Sep 2012 – Jun 2016
Publications
ACL 2026 (Main)
AAAI 2026
Journal of Visualization, 2025
SIGSPATIAL 2023
SIGSPATIAL 2021
KDD 2020
MIS Quarterly Executive, 2018