Yong-Lu Li
Scholar

Yong-Lu Li

Google Scholar ID: UExAaVgAAAAJ
Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University/Shanghai Innovation Institute
Physical ReasoningRoboticsComputer VisionMachine LearningEmbodied AI
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Citations & Impact
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Citations
3,020
 
H-index
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i10-index
33
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
19
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Publications
22 items
Beyond Static Vision: Scene Dynamic Field Unlocks Intuitive Physics Understanding in Multi-modal Large Language Models
2026
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OmniXtreme: Breaking the Generality Barrier in High-Dynamic Humanoid Control
2026
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A Pragmatic VLA Foundation Model
2026
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3
The Great March 100: 100 Detail-oriented Tasks for Evaluating Embodied AI Agents
2026
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Diagnose, Correct, and Learn from Manipulation Failures via Visual Symbols
2025
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Efficient and Scalable Monocular Human-Object Interaction Motion Reconstruction
2025
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L1 Sample Flow for Efficient Visuomotor Learning
2025
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IPR-1: Interactive Physical Reasoner
2025
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - ICRA 2025 Best Paper Award (HRI, sole corresponding author)
  • - AI100 Young Pioneers (MIT Review)
  • - Baidu Scholarship
  • - WAIC Yunfan Award (twice)
  • - Shanghai Overseas High-Level Talent
  • - Wu Wenjun AI Science and Technology Award for Excellent Doctoral Dissertation
  • - Outstanding Reviewer of NeurIPS’20/21
  • - Area Chair for ICLR 2026
  • - Lecturer for the 'Computer Vision' course at the ACM Honor Class of SJTU
  • - Member of VALSE EACC
  • - Deputy Secretary-General of the EAI Committee under the Chinese Association for AI
  • - Multiple papers published in SIGGRAPH Asia 2025, CoRL 2025, ICCV 2025, IROS 2025, etc.
Research Experience
  • - Tenure-Track Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • - PI of the RHOS Lab
  • - Member of the Machine Vision and Intelligence Group, working closely with Prof. Cewu Lu
  • - Previously collaborated with Prof. Chi Keung Tang and Prof. Yu-Wing Tai at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2021-2022)
Education
  • - Ph.D. (2017-2021): Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, supervised by Prof. Cewu Lu
  • - Work and study (2014-2017): Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, supervised by Prof. Yiping Yang and A/Prof. Yinghao Cai
  • - Collaboration (2021-2022): Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, closely worked with IEEE Fellow Prof. Chi Keung Tang and Prof. Yu-Wing Tai
Background
  • - Research Interests: Physical Reasoning, Embodied AI, Human Activity Understanding
  • - Position: Tenure-Track Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, PI of the RHOS Lab
  • - Introduction: Focuses on building a reasoning-driven system that enables intelligent agents to perceive, reason, and interact with the physical world. Open-source projects have garnered over 13,000 stars on GitHub.
Miscellany
  • - Personal interests not detailed
Co-authors
19 total
cewu lu
cewu lu
Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Hao-Shu Fang
Hao-Shu Fang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jiefeng Li
Jiefeng Li
Research Scientist, NVIDIA Research
Yuliang Xiu
Yuliang Xiu
Westlake University | Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Jianhua Sun
Jianhua Sun
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chi Keung Tang
Chi Keung Tang
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Yang You
Yang You
Postdoc, Stanford University
Yu-Wing Tai
Yu-Wing Tai
Dartmouth College