About Me
Hi there! This is Ling Li. I am currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Data Science and Analytics Thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). I am fortunately supervised by Prof. Jiaheng Wei and Prof. Fugee Tsung.
Prior to enrolling at HKUST(GZ), I gained impressive industry experience through full-time and internship roles at Tencent, Baidu, and a start-up. I hold an M.Eng. in Software Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University and a B.Sc. in Information Management and Information System from Anhui University.
My primary research interests focus on Data-Centric AI and Urban AI. If you are interested in my research, please feel free to contact me!
Research Interests
- Data-Centric AI: Data Quality Evaluation and Efficient Data Generation
- Urban AI: Leveraging Multimodal Learning for City-Centric Applications
- Multimodal Large Language Model
Experience
| Jan 2024 - now | Ph.D. Candidate, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) |
| Aug 2023 - Jan 2024 | Research Assistant, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) |
| Sept 2022 - May 2023 | Applied Researcher, Startup |
| Jul 2021 - Aug 2022 | Machine Learning Engineer, Pheonix Nest, Baidu |
| Sept 2018 - Jun 2021 | M.Eng. in Software Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University |
| Jun 2020 - Sept 2020 | Research Intern, Youtu Lab, Tencent |
| Aug 2019 - Aug 2019 | Sakura Science Exchange Program, The University of Tokushima |
| Sept 2014 - Jun 2018 | B.Sc. in Management Information System, Anhui University |
| Jan 2018 - Jan 2018 | Visiting Program, The University of Hong Kong |
Publications
| Ling Li, Yao Zhou, Yuxuan Liang, Fugee Tsung, Jiaheng Wei. Recognition through Reasoning: Reinforcing Image Geo-localization with Large Vision-Language Models. The 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025. |
| Manling Yang, Yihan Hou, Ling Li, Remco Chang, Wei Zeng. Dashboard Vision: Using Eye-Tracking to Understand and Predict Dashboard Viewing Behaviors. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2025. |
| Ziyao Gao, Yiwen Zhang, Ling Li, Theodoros Papatheodorou, Wei Zeng. AI-rays: Exploring Bias in the Gaze of AI Through a Multimodal Interactive Installation. SIGGRAPH Asia Art Papers, 2024. |
| Jian Yu, Ling Li, Wei Zeng. HarmonyWave: Immersive Space Sound Therapy with Audio-Visual Synesthesia. The 17th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI), 2024. |
| Ling Li, Yaochen Li, Chuan Wu, Hang Dong, Peilin Jiang. Detail Fusion GAN: High-Quality Translation for Unpaired Images with GAN-based Data Augmentation. IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2020. |
| Yaochen Li, Chuan Wu, Ling Li, Yuehu Liu and Jihua Zhu. Caption generation from road images for traffic scene modeling. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23(7): 7805-7816, 2021. |
| Chuan Wu, Yaochen Li, Ling Li, Le Wang and Yuehu Liu. Caption Generation from Road Images for Traffic Scene Construction. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, pp. 1271-1276, 2020. |
| Yaochen Li, Xiao Wu, Danhui Lu, Ling Li, Yuehu Liu, Li Zhu. Style Transfer of Urban Road Images using Generative Adversarial Networks with Structural Details. IEEE Multimedia, 27(3): 54-65, 2020. |
Selected Awards and Honors
| 2021, Outstanding Dissertation, Xi’an Jiaotong University |
| 2017, Honorable Mention, The Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)/The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM) |
| 2016, 1st Prize, Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling |
