Yi Li
PhD Candidate
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Li is a Member of Technical Staff at xAI with a decade of experience bridging cutting-edge research and applied robotics and vision-language models. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington where he led perception efforts for Amazon-UW warehouse manipulation and co-authored CoRL 2023 work on segmenting and tracking unseen objects. His internships at NVIDIA and Microsoft Research Asia contributed to influential projects like DeepIM (ECCV top-12) and HAMSTER, a hierarchical VLA model accepted to ICLR 2025 that enables semantic and geometric generalization for robotic manipulation. Comfortable moving research into systems, Yi combines strong publication credentials with hands-on model development and a track record of prize-winning computer vision results.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of WashingtonMaster’s Degree, Control Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree, Control Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (27)
rendering9
mxnet9
efficientnet9
resnet9
julia9
object-detection8
python8
deep-learning8
semantic-segmentation8
scala8
visualization8
javascript8
dataflow8
opengl7
engine7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
liyi14/liyi14.github.io
Dec 2020 - May 2026
Contributions:52 pushes in 5 years 5 months
liyi14/DeepIM-Honda
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 2 pushes in 2 months
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