Scholar
Yi Li
Google Scholar ID: MW36lZUAAAAJ
University of Washington
Citations & Impact
Citations
15,964
H-index
8
i10-index
8
Publications
10
Co-authors
30
list available
Contact
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper HAMSTER accepted by ICLR 2025; STOW accepted by CoRL 2023; DeepIM accepted as oral by ECCV 2018, selected as one of the 12 best papers at ECCV 2018, with an extended version published in IJCV; Deformable ConvNets accepted by ICCV 2017; FCIS accepted as spotlight by CVPR 2017; R-FCN accepted by NeurIPS 2016; Inst-FCN accepted by ECCV 2016; First prize in MS COCO segmentation challenge 2016; Awarded the National Scholarship (top 0.5% nationwide).
Research Experience
- Interned at NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab, contributing to three projects under the mentorship of Dr. Ankit Goyal, Dr. Kaichun Mo, and Dr. Arsalan Mousavian, advancing multimodal reasoning, vision-language-action (VLA) models, and policy generalization. Also collaborated with Dr. Jifeng Dai and Dr. Kaiming He at Microsoft Research Asia on deep learning and computer vision research.
Education
- Ph.D. from the University of Washington, advised by Prof. Dieter Fox; M.S. from Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Xiangyang Ji; B.S. from Tsinghua University.
Background
- Currently a Member of Technical Staff at xAI, working on the Omni model. Research focuses on developing multi-modal foundation models capable of understanding and interacting with the real world.
Miscellany
- Invited to give a talk at OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Bytedance Seed for the HAMSTER project; Invited speaker on humanoid robot cognition, hosted by Bernstein.
