Benson Li

Benson Li

CS Specialist Student
University of Toronto

Email: benson21 [at] cs [dot] toronto [dot] edu

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About

I am an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto pursuing an Honours Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics (GPA: 3.99/4.00). My studies focus on machine learning and software design.

I have gained industry experience as a Software Engineering Intern at Meta, Uber, and RBC, where I worked on working on AI/ML platforms, real-time data pipelines, and scalable backend systems.

My research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and causal inference. Previously, I conducted research at the Vector Institute with Prof. Rahul G. Krishnan and Prof. Roger Grosse. I helped to develop CausalPFN, a pre-trained transformer network for estimating treatment effects without task-specific retraining. This work involved comprehensive evaluation across state-of-the-art causal inference models and resulted in a paper accepted to NeurIPS 2025 as a spotlight.

Publication

CausalPFN: Amortized Causal Effect Estimation via In-Context Learning
Vahid Balazadeh, Hamidreza Kamkari, Valentin Thomas, Benson Li, Junwei Ma, Jesse C. Cresswell, Rahul G. Krishnan
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025Spotlight, top 3% of submissions
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Documents

Below you can find links to my current resume and transcript. These documents provide an overview of my educational background, professional experiences, and academic achievements.

Photos

I am fortunate to have photos together with several AI pioneers, including Professor Geoffrey Hinton and Professor Fei-Fei Li. Their personal insights have inspired me to strive for impactful contributions in the field of AI and ML.

Photo with Geoffrey Hinton
June 21, 2023 - Professor Geoffrey Hinton
Photo with Fei-Fei Li
October 4, 2023 - Professor Fei-Fei Li