About Me
Hi there! This is Ling Li. I am currently a Ph.D. student at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). My primary research interests lie in the exploration of Generative AI and Urban AI. I am fortunately supervised by Prof. Wei Zeng and Prof. Tsung Fugee.
Prior to enrolling at HKUST(GZ), I gained impressive industry experience through full-time and internship roles at Tencent, Baidu, and a start-up. My academic background includes a Master of Engineering degree, specialized in Software Engineering, from Xi’an Jiaotong University, and a Bachelor of Science degree, with a concentration in Management Information System, from Anhui University.
If you are interested in my research, please feel free to contact me!
Research Interests
- Generative AI, e.g., Image-to-Image Translation, Multimodal Foundation Models
- Urban AI, e.g., Geo-localization, Style Augmentation
Experience
| Jan 2024 - Now | Ph.D. Student, 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
| [C5] Ziyao Gao, Yiwen Zhang, Ling Li, Theodoros Papatheodorou, Wei Zeng. AI-rays: Exploring Bias in the Gaze of AI Through a Multimodal Interactive Installation[C]. SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Art Papers. Accepted. |
| [C4] Jian Yu, Ling Li, Wei Zeng. HarmonyWave: Immersive Space Sound Therapy with Audio-Visual Synesthesia[C]. Proceedings of The 17th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction. Accepted. |
| [C3] Ling Li, Yu Ye, Bingchuan Jiang, Wei Zeng. GeoReasoner: Geo-localization with Reasoning in Street Views using a Large Vision-Language Model[C]. The 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024. Accepted. |
| [C2] Ling Li, Yaochen Li, Chuan Wu, Hang Dong, Peilin Jiang. Detail Fusion GAN: High-Quality Translation for Unpaired Images with GAN-based Data Augmentation[C]. IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 1731-1736, 2020. |
| [J2] Yaochen Li, Chuan Wu, Ling Li, Yuehu Liu and Jihua Zhu. Caption generation from road images for traffic scene modeling[J]. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23(7): 7805-7816, 2021. |
| [C1] Chuan Wu, Yaochen Li, Ling Li, Le Wang and Yuehu Liu. Caption Generation from Road Images for Traffic Scene Construction[C]. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, pp. 1271-1276, 2020. |
| [J1] 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[J]. IEEE Multimedia, 27(3): 54-65, 2020. |
Selected Awards and Honors
| 2021 | Outstanding Master's Thesis Award |
| 2017 | The Honorable Mention in The Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)/The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM) |
| 2016 | The 1st Prize in Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling |
