Focus Period Lund 2026
PhD Student
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology – KAUST (Saudi Arabia)
Hanmin Li is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), supervised by Prof. Peter Richtárik. His research centers on optimization and large language models (LLMs), with an emphasis on improving training efficiency, scalability, and distributed learning. His work spans first-order methods, convex and non-convex optimization. Prior to his PhD, he earned an M.S. in Computer Science at KAUST and a B.S. in Computer Science and Technology from the School of the Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).