I am a computer vision & machine learning researcher in the Multimedia R&D Team at Qualcomm. I received my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC San Diego in 2024, advised by Prof. Nuno Vasconcelos. Prior to joining UCSD, I received the BEng in Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2017. I have interned at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and Intel AI Lab.
My research centers around building efficient and reliable computer vision models in the open world, under various forms of data and model bias. I am also interested in various topics in the intersection of multimodal learning, video understanding, and generative AI.
<08/2024> Defended my doctoral thesis!
<06/2023> Attended CVPR 2023 Doctoral Consortium, mentored by Prof. Kate Saenko
<05/2023> Named as CVPR 2023 Outstanding Reviewer
<03/2023> Paper on sparse video transformers (SViTT) accepted to CVPR 2023
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SViTT: Temporal Learning of Sparse Video-Text Transformers
Yi Li, Kyle Min, Subarna Tripathi, Nuno Vasconcelos ⋅ CVPR 2023
VALHALLA: Visual Hallucination for Machine Translation
Yi Li, Rameswar Panda, Yoon Kim, Chun-Fu Chen, Rogerio Feris, David Cox, Nuno Vasconcelos ⋅ CVPR 2022
Improving Video Model Transfer with Dynamic Representation Learning
Yi Li, Nuno Vasconcelos ⋅ CVPR 2022
Learning Representations from Audio-Visual Spatial Alignment
Pedro Morgado*, Yi Li*, Nuno Vasconcelos ⋅ NeurIPS 2020