Hi, I’m Yifan Li (李一帆), a 3-rd year Ph.D. student (2023-) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of Michigan State University (MSU), supervised by Prof. Yu Kong. Before that, I obtained my Master’s degree (2020-2023) at the VIPL group, Institue of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT, CAS) supervised by Prof. Hu Han, and I also collaborate closely with Prof. Shiguang Shan. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree (2016-2020) at Northeastern University supervised by Prof. Long Cheng.

My research interest includes computer vision (CV) and deep learning (DL). My ultimate goal is to design the visual system for robots so that they can understand the visual world and humans can work with them collaboratively. More specifically, my current research interest is visual large language models (VLLMs), efficient visiual foundation models (VFMs) and embodied question answering (EQA).

I am so excited to witness and participate in the revolution of artificial intelligence. I am also open for collaboration to create better jobs, so if you are interested please reach out and do something cool.

反者道之动，弱者道之用。 ——《道德经》

The Tao moves through reversal; its power lies in yielding. —— Dao De Jing