July 2025 - Present, Assistant Professor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
September 2024 - May 2025, Visiting Scholar, National University of Singapore, advised by Prof. Yang You.
May 2023 - August 2024, Visiting PhD Student (remotely), UC Berkeley, advised by Prof. Zhen Dong and Prof. Kurt Keutzer.
September 2020 - June 2025, Ph.D. in Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, advised by Prof. Qingyi Gu.
September 2016 - June 2020, Bachelor in Electronic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology.
Background
Currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Research interests include efficient AI (LLM, VLM, VideoGen), model compression, hardware-software co-design, and efficient evaluation and alignment. The goal is to achieve low-cost, low-latency, and low-power consumption model training (fine-tuning) and inference through algorithmic and hardware optimization.
Miscellany
Long-term Recruiting: Actively looking for visiting students and researchers (bachelor, master, or Ph.D.), feel free to contact me at zhikai.li@ia.ac.cn if you are interested in working with me!