Yanlin Li

About Me

Greetings and thanks for visiting my homepage.

My name is Yanlin Li. I am a Master of Computing (Artificial Intelligence specialization) student at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore from August 2024, under the supervision of Prof. Mong-Li Lee and Prof. Wynne Hsu and Dr. Hao Fei. Before that, I have obtained the Bachelor of Software Engineering at the School of Software, Shandong University in China.

I am actively looking for Ph.D position in 2026 Spring or 2026 Fall. I am eager to explore novel areas of research (current attempts are to define future directions) and I am also willing to seek some external collaborations. Contact me if you have any leads! Deeply obliged.

Research Interests

I believe that the development of technology should always be human-centered, and my long-term research goal is to build Human-Centered AI System.

For example, people should be able to use AI tools to achieve their own purposes in natural and intuitive ways—such as generating a personalized, aesthetically enhanced portrait from an ID photo, just as the image on my homepage illustrates. (BTW, if you would like to see my unedited ID photo, please refer to my Google Scholar.)

To advance this vision, I focus on three interconnected aspects:

• Interaction: Only with natural and intuitive multimodal interaction can AI truly align with human habits, providing personalized and collaborative experiences.
• Cognition: Only by understanding and simulating human cognitive mechanisms can AI better align with human ways of thinking and achieve genuine human–machine understanding.
• Intelligence: Only by enhancing the overall performance of reasoning and perception can AI demonstrate efficient and flexible abilities in complex and dynamic environments, better serving human needs.

Experiences

• Research Assistant, The Centre for Trusted Internet Community, NUS, advised by Dr. Hao Fei, Prof. Mong-Li Lee and Prof. Wynne Hsu. [12/2024-now]
• Research Assistant, AIoT Lab, SDU, advised by Prof. Yiran Shen. [10/2022-06/2024]

News

• [07/2025] One paper has been accepted by ToMLLM@IJCAI 2025.
• [03/2025] Our Truthful and Responsible Multimodal Learning Challenge@ACM MM 2025 has been released. Welcome to submit your solution.
• [01/2025] I join CTIC@NUS as a research assistant, advised by Dr. Hao Fei, Prof. Mong-Li Lee and Prof. Wynne Hsu.
• [08/2024] I am honored to be awarded the NUS GRTII Master’s Scholarship (SGD 45,000).
• [05/2024] I am glad to receive an Master of Computing (Aritificial Intelligence) offer from the NUS.
• [05/2024] One paper has been accepted by WASA 2024 (CCF-C).
• [05/2024] I am honored to be the Meritorious Winner in The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM). Thanks to my collaborators.
• [01/2024] I am glad to be selected an outstanding graduate (undergraduate) of Shandong University.
• [10/2022] I join AIoT@SDU as a research assistant, advised by Prof. Yiran Shen.

Publications

(*) denotes corresponding author

Awards

• NUS GRTII Master’s Scholarship (SGD 45,000), NUS Guangzhou RTII, 08/2024
• Meritorious Winner, The Mathematical Contest in Modeling (ICM), 05/2024
• Outstanding Undergraduate Graduate, Shandong University, 01/2024
• Second Prize (RMB 10,000), 2023 Summer Intel oneAPI Campus Hackathon Competition, 11/2023
• Third Prize, Shandong University Academic Scholoship, 10/2023
• First Prize, Shandong University Specialty Scholarship in Entrepreneurship Practice Category, 10/2023
• Third Prize, Shandong University Academic Scholoship, 10/2022
• Second Prize, Shandong University Specialty Scholarship in Entrepreneurship Practice Category, 10/2022
• Second Prize, The 12th National Student Market Research and Analysis Competition National Final (Top 0.66%), 05/2022
• Second Prize, 2021 Asia and Pacific Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 01/2021

Services

Conference Reviewers

• IJCNN 2025
• ICIC 2025
• ACM MM 2025
• AAAI 2026

Chanllege Organizers

• (ResMM) Truthful and Responsible Multimodal Learning Challenge@ACM MM 2025