YIMING LI
I am a Dean’s PhD Fellow at NYU, advised by Institute Associate Professor Chen Feng and collaborating with Prof. Saining Xie. I am also a Graduate Fellow at NVIDIA Research, working on world simulators and foundation models with Prof. Marco Pavone at Stanford University. I am fortunate to collaborate with Dr. Zhiding Yu at Learning and Perception Research, as well as Dr. Zan Gojcjc and Prof. Sanja Fidler at Toronto AI Lab.
Previously, I spent some time at NVIDIA Applied AV Research with Dr. Jose M. Alvarez, NVIDIA AI Research with Prof. Anima Anandkumar, Tsinghua MARS Lab with Prof. Hang Zhao, and SJTU with Prof. Siheng Chen.
My research aims to replicate human-like spatial intelligence with minimal human supervision, paving the way for trustworthy and accessible autonomous robots and embodied agents working for and around humans. My current efforts are in three dimensions: (1) agent: building a generalist embodied visual agent powered by foundation models to perceive and act in 3D; (2) world: building a photorealistic world simulator to train and evaluate the foundation agents; (3) data: visual-spatial and multimodal dataset curation.
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Oct 31, 2024 | I successfully passed my PhD defense [video]. Many thanks to my committee and collaborators! |
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Jul 23, 2024 | MARS is covered by TechXplore: New dataset kicks autonomous vehicle research into high gear. |
Jun 01, 2024 | We are organizing the 2nd Vision-Centric Autonomous Driving (VCAD) Workshop at ECCV 2024. |
May 20, 2024 | I serve as an Associate Editor for IROS 2024. |
Dec 10, 2023 | I am honored to receive the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship (2024-2025) (10 awardees worldwide). |