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 Fall or 2027 Spring. 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 AGI.

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

• [02/2026] One paper has been accepted by CVPR 2026 (CCF-A).
• [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

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

Chanllege Organizers

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