Gen Li
Dr. Li is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, working with Prof. Jianfei Yang. His research interests include Embodied AI, Generative AI, Robotics, and Human-Object Interaction. More information can be found on his personal webpage.
Experience
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2025-present
- Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
- Research Intern, 2025
- Institute for Advanced Algorithms Research (IAAR), Shanghai, China
- Research Intern 2023-2024
- Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, London, UK
- Visiting Researcher, 2020-2021
- The University of Edinburgh, Edinbugh, UK
Education
- Ph.D. in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2021-2025
- The University of Edinburgh, Edinbugh, UK
- Master of Engineering, 2018-2020
- Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
- Bachelor of Engineering, 2014-2018
- Xidian University, Xi’an, China
Academic Service
- Reviewer for top-tier journels and conferences including Nature Machine Intelligence, IEEE TIP, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, etc.
Selected Publications
[1] Learning Precise Affordances from Egocentric Videos for Robotic Manipulation
Gen Li, Nikolaos Tsagkas, Jifei Song, Ruaridh Mon-Williams, Sethu Vijayakumar, Kun Shao, and Laura Sevilla-Lara
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
[2] Embodied Large Language Models Enable Robots to Complete Complex Tasks in Unpredictable Environments
Ruaridh Mon-Williams, Gen Li, Ran Long, Wenqian Du, and Chris Lucas
Nature Machine Intelligence, 2025
[3] One-Shot Open Affordance Learning with Foundation Models
Gen Li, Deqing Sun, Laura Sevilla-Lara, and Varun Jampani
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
[4] LOCATE: Localize and Transfer Object Parts for Weakly Supervised Affordance Grounding
Gen Li, Varun Jampani, Deqing Sun, and Laura Sevilla-Lara
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
For the full publication list, please refer to Gen’s Google Scholar.