Jianping Li 李建平

I am a software engineer at Google, building the next-generation agentic browser with Gemini in Chrome for billions of users.

Previously, I was a CS graduate student at UIUC, fortunate to work with Prof. Tong Zhang and Prof. Minjia Zhang. My interests lie in language agents (product × research) for real-world automation. Recently, I am excited about autoresearch and self-improving agents.

I love building open-source software and am always open to research collaboration. Feel free to reach out via email.

Jianping Li

Work

Gemini in Chrome
Gemini in Chrome
Google

An AI assistant built into the Chrome browser that understands and helps across your tabs.

[website]
SynthID
SynthID
Google

Imperceptible watermarking and detection for AI-generated images, video, audio, and text.

Contributed to integrating SynthID as a tool for the Gemini in Chrome agent.

[website]

Publications

Who Improves the Robot? Toward Physical Recursive Self-Improvement
Hai Zhou, Fan Yang, Zeyi Chen, Lejun Zhang, Chenyang Fu, Jianping Li, et al.
arXiv 2026
[paper] [github]
BioClaw: Human-Bot Research Collaboration Ecosystems in Group Chats
BioClaw Team
bioRxiv 2026
[paper] [website]
X-MoE: Enabling Scalable Training for Emerging Mixture-of-Experts Architectures on HPC Platforms
Yueming Yuan, Ahan Gupta, Jianping Li, Sajal Dash, Feiyi Wang, Minjia Zhang
SC 2025 Best Student Paper
[paper] [code] [project]
MiniKV: Pushing the Limits of LLM Inference via 2-Bit Layer-Discriminative KV Cache
Akshat Sharma, Hangliang Ding, Jianping Li, Neel Dani, Minjia Zhang
ACL 2025 Findings
[paper] [code]

Experience

Education