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Lihong Li is a Senior Principal Scientist at Amazon. He obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University. After that, he has held research positions in Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google. His main research interests are in reinforcement learning, including contextual bandits, and other related problems in AI. His work has found applications in recommendation, advertising, Web search and conversation systems. He has won best paper awards at ICML, AISTATS and WSDM, as well as the 2023 Seoul Test of Time Award of the Web Conference. He regularly serves as area chair or senior program committee member at major AI/ML conferences such as AAAI, AISTATS, ICLR, ICML, IJCAI and NeurIPS. He served as associative, acting and guest editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Transactions on Machine Learning Research, and Machine Learning Journal. Personal homepage: http://lihongli.github.io .