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Biography
I am an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, the University of Hong Kong, and a cofounder of Reka. I earned my Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Oxford. In the past, I obtained a Master of Science degree from the National University of Singapore, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Shandong University. My research interests include natural language processing and machine learning. My research is centered on enabling computers to comprehend human language. I also spent some time at Google DeepMind, Facebook AI Research, and Microsoft Research before and during my PhD study.
I have multiple fully-funded PhD, MPhil, postdoc, RA, and intern positions available at the University of Hong Kong. Email me for more information.
Reka is hiring for platform and machine learning. Email us for more information. We are an AGI company committed to the development of large foundation models.
Interests
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
Education
Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
University of Oxford, Advisors: Phil Blunsom, Matt Kusner
M.Sc in Computer Science
National University of Singapore, Advisor: Anthony K.H. Tung
BEng in Computer Science
Shandong University
Experiences
Research Scientist Intern
Google DeepMind
Jul 2020 – Jun 2021 London
Advisors: Phil Blunsom, Dani Yogatama, Lei Yu, Laura Rimell
Researcher
Facebook AI Research
Aug 2018 – Aug 2019 New York City
Advisors: Douwe Kiela, Maximilian Nickel
Research Intern
Microsoft Research
Mar 2018 – Jun 2018 Cambridge
Advisors: Alexander Gaunt, Marc Brockschmidt, Miltos Allamanis
Research Assistant
SUTD
Feb 2017 – Feb 2018 Singapore
Advisor: Yue Zhang
Research Intern
Microsoft Research
Sep 2016 – Dec 2016 Beijing
Advisors: Ying Yan, Thomas Moscibroda
Selected Awards
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia List
Forbes Feb 2023
AMiner AI Most Influential Scholar
AMiner Jan 2022
Google DeepMind Scholarship
Google DeepMind Sep 2019
Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition Winner (3 out of 550)
SMU Aug 2017
NUS Research Scholarship
NUS Sep 2014
Publications
Linli Yao, Yicheng Li, Yuancheng Wei, Lei Li, Shuhuai Ren, Yuanxin Liu, Kun Ouyang, Lean Wang, Shicheng Li, Sida Li, Lingpeng Kong, Qi Liu, Yuanxing Zhang, Xu Sun (2025). TimeChat-Online: 80% Visual Tokens are Naturally Redundant in Streaming Videos. In ACM Multimedia.
Lei Li, Yuancheng Wei, Zhihui Xie, Xuqing Yang, Yifan Song, Peiyi Wang, Chenxin An, Tianyu Liu, Sujian Li, Bill Yuchen Lin, Lingpeng Kong, Qi Liu (2025). VLRewardBench: A Challenging Benchmark for Vision-Language Generative Reward Models. In CVPR.
Lei Li, Yuwei Yin, Shicheng Li, Liang Chen, Peiyi Wang, Shuhuai Ren, Mukai Li, Yazheng Yang, Jingjing Xu, Xu Sun, Lingpeng Kong, Qi Liu (2023). M3IT: A Large-Scale Dataset towards Multi-Modal Multilingual Instruction Tuning. In arXiv.