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.