Gen Li

Research Fellow @ MAE, NTU

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On Westminster Bridge, London (2025)

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), working with Jianfei Yang at the MARS Lab. I completed my PhD in 2025 at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Laura Sevilla, and collaborated closely with Varun Jampani and Deqing Sun.

The central focus of my research is to enable robots to perceive and interact with their environments in a human-like yet data-efficient manner. This includes exploring a range of cutting-edge topics:

  • Multimodal AI: VLM, MLLM
  • Embodied AI: Robot Learning, VLA, RL
  • Generative AI: Image / Video Generation, World Models
  • Efficient AI: Transfer Learning, Learning under Limited Data & Supervision
  • Human / Robot Interaction: Human-Object Interaction, Human-to-Robot Learning

📢 I am seeking highly self-motivated PhD, Master, and Bachelor students for potential reserach collaborations. Feel free to contact me via email if you are interested.

news

Sep 15, 2025 💂 Started my new position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NTU!
Jun 26, 2025 🎉 Two papers accepted to ICCV 2025. See you in Hawaii!
Jun 16, 2025 🎉 One paper accepted to IROS 2025.
May 05, 2025 🎓 Passed my PhD viva with minor corrections!
Jan 31, 2025 🎉 One paper accepted to NMI, congrats to Ruaridh!

selected publications

  1. ICCV’25
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    Learning Precise Affordances from Egocentric Videos for Robotic Manipulation
    Gen Li, Nikolaos Tsagkas, Jifei Song, Ruaridh Mon-Williams, Sethu Vijayakumar, and 2 more authors
    In IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2025
  2. NMI
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    Embodied Large Language Models Enable Robots to Complete Complex Tasks in Unpredictable Environments
    Ruaridh Mon-Williams†, Gen Li†, Ran Long, Wenqian Du, and Chris Lucas
    Nature Machine Intelligence, 2025
  3. CVPR’24
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    One-Shot Open Affordance Learning with Foundation Models
    Gen Li, Deqing Sun, Laura Sevilla-Lara, and Varun Jampani
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2024
  4. CVPR’23
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    LOCATE: Localize and Transfer Object Parts for Weakly Supervised Affordance Grounding
    Gen Li, Varun Jampani, Deqing Sun, and Laura Sevilla-Lara
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2023
  5. CVPR’21
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    Adaptive Prototype Learning and Allocation for Few-Shot Segmentation
    Gen Li, Varun Jampani, Laura Sevilla-Lara, Deqing Sun, Jonghyun Kim, and 1 more author
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2021