Dr. Li (Luis) LI
Research Scientist @ Huawei Noah's Ark Lab    âąÂ    PhD @ Durham University
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.    âąÂ    Noah's Ark Lab

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I am a research scientist at the Huawei Noahâs Ark Lab (London Research Center), where my research mainly focuses on multimodal computer vision and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs).
I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Kingâs Laboratory for Intelligent Computing (KLIC) at Kingâs College London, working with Prof Bipin Rajendran. My research interest was on analog in-memory-computing (AIMC) and hardware acceleration algorithms for artificial intelligence.
Before that, I completed my PhD in Computer Science at Durham University, supervised by Prof Toby Breckon and Prof Hubert P. H. Shum. My research pursues to better 3D perception and semantic scene understanding based on computer vision and deep learning. I was awarded as the runner-up for the 2024 BMVA Sullivan Doctoral Thesis Prize and the Best PhD Thesis Prize at Durham University in recognition of my contributions to computer vision research in the UK.
Prior to Durham, I received my bachelorâs degree in Telecommunications Engineering at Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST) in 2020. In NJUST, I worked on semantic scene understanding for UAVs and UGVs with Prof Hong Gu.
As an enthusiast of open source projects, I maintain and contribute to a number of open source repositories Follow @l1997i.
I am incredibly thankful to my supervisors and collaborators, and enjoy exploring new domains through collaborations. If you have questions or would like to work together, please feel free to reach out through email or grab some time with me for an appointment either online or in person.
News
Awards
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Award: The Best PhD Thesis Prize
Awarding Organization: Department of Computer Science, Durham University, Year: 2025
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Award: Sullivan Doctoral Thesis Prize runner-up
Awarding Organization: The British Machine Vision Association (BMVA), Year: 2024
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Award: Outstanding Undergraduate Student
Awarding Organization: Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), Year: 2020
Selected Publications
Academic Services
Conference Reviewer
- IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) - 2023, 2025
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) - 2023, 2024, 2025
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) - 2024, 2025
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) - 2025
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) - 2025
- The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) - 2024
- International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) - 2022, 2024
Journal Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
- Pattern Recognition (PR)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)