Yu Li
Principal Researcher at 粤港澳大湾区数字经济研究院
Guangdong Province, China
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Top SchoolYu Li is a Principal Researcher with 11 years of expertise in computer vision and generative AI, leading the Vistring Lab to pioneer diffusion and GAN-based video content generation and editing pipelines now patented and published. He has authored 80+ top-tier papers and holds an h-index of 32 with 700+ citations, recognized among Stanford's Top 2% Scientists and repeatedly serving as area chair for CVPR, NeurIPS, ECCV and ACM MM. Yu has a strong track record of translating research to product: his work shipped in DaVinci Resolve at Blackmagic and multiple Tencent apps (including the popular "animating old photo" feature), and he has filed 10+ patents across roles. As a Research Affiliate at UIUC and former senior researcher in industry labs, he blends deep academic rigor with practical system-building for high-resolution video and real-world deployment. Beyond publications, he runs a lab that has produced 20+ conference papers and more than 10 patents, signaling an unusual balance of sustained publishing and product impact.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (4)
deep-learning4
pytorch4
computer-vision4
semantic3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yu-li/HWFI
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
yu-li/yu-li.github.io
Apr 2015 - Apr 2025
Contributions:158 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 10 years 1 month
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