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Weibo Li
PhD student / CIS / W.P. Carey, ASU
Hi — I’m Weibo Li (李炜博), a third-year PhD student in Computer Information Systems at the W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. My research focuses on LLM post-training, specifically its applications in digital platforms and agentic workflows.
Prior to ASU, I earned my bachelor’s degree from Tongji University in Shanghai.
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News & Talks
Upcoming
INFORMS Annual Meeting 2026
San Francisco, CA
CIST 2026
Conference on Information Systems and Technology · San Francisco, CA
Recent
SWAIB 2026
Dalian, China
Paper on arXiv · KDD 2026 Blue Sky Ideas
POMS 2026 · presentation
Presented an early-stage project · Reno, NV
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Research
Research interests
LLM post-training · digital platforms · agentic workflows
LLM post-training for platform and agentic-workflow settings
My current work studies how post-trained LLM systems can be designed, evaluated, and deployed in digital-platform settings. Some projects are still early-stage, so this page keeps the research summary deliberately high-level.
early-stage work
Publications in CS
peer-reviewed · computer science venues
KDD 2026 · Blue Sky Ideas Track
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Background
Education
Aug 2024 — Present
Arizona State University
PhD, Business Admin (CIS) · W.P. Carey
Sep 2018 — Jul 2023
Tongji University, Shanghai
B.Sc. Management (MIS)
Prior to 2020, my major was Mechanical Engineering. I transferred to MIS in September 2020.
Experience
Feb 2023 — Jun 2023
MM Capital
Investment Analyst Intern · generative AI
Aug 2022 — Sep 2022
Huatai Securities, Research Institute
Analyst Intern · Financial Engineering
Feb 2022 — Jul 2022
BCG China
Part-time Assistant
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Off-duty
Currently reading
- ▸ Histories of Tokugawa & Meiji Japan
- ▸ Early-modern Europe: Renaissance → Industrial Rev.
- · A biography or two, always
// mostly history, politics, biography. next: something on the Hanseatic League.
Sound
- · Jazz — the whole shelf
- · Electronic rock
- · Brit-pop, unrepentant
Cities I keep returning to
- ◆ LA — favorite US city, no contest
- · Paris / Rome / Barcelona — can’t decide. each wins on different days.
// plan: two laps around the world. first as a backpacker, second (post-retirement) staying at the one weird hotel per city.
Other interests
- · Photography — museums, street, light
- · Cinema — dream: Cannes / Venice / Berlinale in person
- · Near-term dream: a SXSW badge
- · Coffee & cocktails — the slow kind of craft
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Contact
I’d be happy to meet briefly if you are interested in my research or have any questions. Please include enough information about the purpose of the meeting. Best reached at weiboli@asu.edu.