Lingyu Li | 李凌宇

Welcome! I’m doing interesting research @ Shanghai AI Lab.

📍 Shanghai, China

✉️ lingyulipsy [at] gmail [dot] com

For my undergraduate, I majored in Clinical Medicine at Shanghai Jiao Tong Univeristy School of Medicine, one of the best medical school in China, during which my academic interests shifted from our body to our mind. Since 2022, therefore, I began my Master’s program in Psychiatry at Shanghai Mental Health Center (widely known as 600, South Wanping Road, 宛平南路600号, among Chinese Internet). Deviating from the mainstream psychiatric research, I completed a surprising or even “weird” project - establishing computational models of Lacanian psychoanalytic theories on human mind, self-identification, and suicidal ideation using Free Energy Principle. I love this project, full of intelligent satisfications, in an almost paranoid attitude. Luckily, after two years of ‘rejections’ and self-doubting, it gets recognition from peers and reviewers. One of them (now my friend) said it was a sexy work, which has been constantly encouraging me. The passion for understanding our mind never fading, I extended it to both biological and artificial mind. Currently, I am investigating the convergences and differences between humans and AI, seeeking implications for understanding human mind and advancing artificial mind, with my awesome collegues at Safe and Trustworthy Center, Shanghai AI Lab. I love doing research at the very intersection of AI, cognitive science, and philosophy.

Lingyu Li | 李凌宇

Selected Research (First Author)

🖤 The Other Mind: How Language Models Exhibit Human Temporal Cognition

🖤 Reflection-Bench: Evaluating Epistemic Agency in Large Language Models

🖤 Formalizing Lacanian psychoanalysis through the free energy principle

🖤 Chain of Risks Evaluation (CORE): a framework for safer large language models in public mental health

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