Tina Yuelei Li

Master student, Caltech

I'm a 1st year MS student at Caltech working with Prof Georgia Gkioxari. I'm interested in computer vision and embodied AI, and have done some works in both of the areas. My research focus is in 2D/3D scene generation and interaction, and to investigate how to simulate and interact with the physical environment using learning based method. Previously: I completed my BS in Computer Engineering with Honors of Highest Distinction, BS in Joint Mathematics-Economics, and Minor in Music from UC San Diego, where I worked with Prof Xiaolong Wang on robot learning and Prof Nuno Vasconcelos on computer vision. I have also interned at Amazon, at EPFL with Prof Pascal Frossard, and at Harvard in Prof Hanspeter Pfister's group with Prof Fangneng Zhan.

Publications and preprints

Papers sorted by recency. * indicates equal contribution.

MiracleLand: Zero-shot 4D World Modeling from a Single Image
Yuelei Li, Zhenyang Lin, Kunhao Liu, Fangneng Zhan, Georgia Gkioxari
project page
Advances in Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction and View Synthesis: A Survey
Jiahui Zhang*, Yuelei Li*, Anpei Chen, Muyu Xu, Kunhao Liu, Jianyuan Wang, Xiaoxiao Long, Hanxue Liang, Zexiang Xu, Hao Su, Christian Theobalt, Christian Rupprecht, Andrea Vedaldi, Kaichen Zhou, Hanspeter, Pfister, Paul Pu Liang, Shijian Lu, Fangneng Zhan
project page, paper
Visual Acoustic Fields
Yuelei Li, Hyunjin Kim, Fangneng Zhan, Ri-Zhao Qiu, Mazeyu Ji, Xiaojun Shan, Xueyan Zou, Paul Liang, Hanspeter Pfister, Xiaolong Wang
CVPRW 2025 (Generative Models for Computer Vision)
project page, paper
LMM-3DP: Integrating LMM Planners and 3D Skill Policies for Generalizable Manipulation
Yuelei Li*, Ge Yan*, Annabella Macaluso, Mazeyu Ji, Xueyan Zou, Xiaolong Wang
ICCVW 2025 [Oral] (Human-Robot-Scene Interaction and Colaboration)
project page, paper, code
AREA3D: Active Reconstruction Agent with Unified Feed-Forward 3D Perception and Vision-Language Guidance
Tianling Xu, Shengzhe Gan, Leslie Gu, Yuelei Li, Fangneng Zhan, Hanspeter Pfister
paper
Model-diff: A Tool for Comparative Study of Language Models in the Input Space
Weitang Liu*, Yuelei Li*, Zihan Wang, Ying Wai Li, Jingbo Shang
paper
Diffusion-based Data Augmentation for Object Counting Problems
Zhen Wang*, Yuelei Li*, Jia Wan, Nuno Vasconcelos
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025
paper
OmniInput: An Evaluation Framework for Deep Learning Models on Internet-Scale Data
Weitang Liu, Yuelei Li, Ying Wai Li, Zihan Wang, Yi-Zhuang You, Jingbo Shang
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025
paper
Real-to-sim deformable object manipulation: Optimizing physics models with residual mappings for robotic surgery
Xiao Liang*, Fei Liu*, Yutong Zhang, Yuelei Li, Shan Lin, Michael Yip
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
paper

Internships

Amazon
SDE Intern in AWS / Jun 2025 - Sep 2025
Harvard
Research Intern / Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
In Prof Hanspeter Pfister's group. Worked with Dr. Fangneng Zhan.
EPFL
Research Intern / Sep 2023 - Dec 2023
Supervised by Prof Pascal Frossard. Received Undergraduate Excellence Research Scholarship.
Naive Systems
SDE Intern / Jul 2022 - Sep 2022

Teaching

When I started college, I had no background in CS and received incredible support from the TAs. I view teaching as a meaningful way to give back to the community. At UCSD, I have been a TA for 6 classes over 8 quarters.

CSE 151A - ML: Learning Algorithms
Instructor: Jingbo Shang
UCSD Winter 2025
website
CSE 150A - AI: Probabilistic Models
Instructor: Emma Hogan
UCSD Summer 2024
website
CSE 151B - Deep Learning
Instructor: Garrison W. Cottrell
UCSD Winter 2024
website / evaluation
CSE 140 - Components and Design Techniques in Digital Systems (x2)
Instructor: Bryan Chin / John Eldon
UCSD Spring 2023 / Summer 2023
website
MATH 20D - Introduction to Differential Equations
Instructor: Nandagopal Ramachandran
UCSD Spring 2023
website / evaluation
MATH 20E - Multivariable Calculus (x2)
Instructor: John Eggers
UCSD Fall 2022 / Winter 2023
website / WI23 evaluation FA22 evaluation

Honors & Awards

Contact

You are very welcome to contact me regarding research or any other computer vision/embodied AI related topics.
I can be contacted directly at yueleili [at] caltech.edu.

Misc

I hold a music minor and am an amateur harpsichordist and pianist with classical training. I started playing the piano when I was little and began to learn the harpsichord in college. Here's a collection of videos. I always forget to record myself playing, so I'll upload more in the future. Hope you enjoy them!