Zili Yi is a pioneering scholar-practitioner in AIGC/Multi-modal intelligence. He is known for his academic contributions in image/video generation models. He is the (co-)author of about 40 high-quality academic papers and the holder of about 30 US/Chinese/International patents. His publications gained 3000+ citations on google scholar. He has played essential roles in a handful of AI-based products&solutions during the period he was employed by Huawei Canada, and ByteDance (Beijing). He is currently an Associate Professor at Suzhou Campus, Nanjing University.

Email: yi [at] nju.edu.cn

Wechat ID: v_yizili

News

[Sep. 2025] 1 paper accepted to NeurIPS 2025.

[Aug. 2025] 1 paper accepted to Graphical Models.

[Feb. 2025] 2 papers accepted to CVPR 2025.

[Feb. 2025] 1 paper accepted to PR.

[Jan. 2025] 1 paper accepted to CVM 2025.

[Dec. 2024] 1 paper accepted to ICASSP 2025.

[Dec. 2024] 2 papers accepted to AAAI 2025.

[July 2024] 1 paper accepted to ECCV 2025.

[July 2023] Zili Yi joined Suzhou Campus, Nanjing University in July 2023.

People

Enrolled students.

Zhiqiu Zhang (Intern)

Jizhi Zhang (Intern)

Rongrong Liu (Intern)

Wenlei Xu (Intern)

Shenyi Wang (Intern)

Ziheng Tang (Intern)

Yuyi Qian (Intern)

Ye Wang (Visiting student)

Zhentao Huang (Visiting student)

Yanxi Zhou (Master)

Tianrui Zhu (Master)

Xinyi Weng (Ph.D.)

Duo Li (Ph.D.)

Jiahang Li (Ph.D.)

Yuhang Liu (Master)

Weitao Chen (Master)

Mingyue Yu (Master)

Jiaxin Hu (Master)

Banghao Xu (Master)

Dongqi Fan (Ph.D.)

Guanzhou Liu (Ph.D.)

Shengrong Gu (Master)

Xinyu Chen (Master)

Dingbao Shao (Master)

Jiang Lin (Ph.D.)

Tianyidan Xie (Research Assistant)

Former students.

Hongyu Zhou (Intern)

Yuxuan Wang (Intern)

Tianxing Shi (Intern)

Tian Tan (Intern)

Zili Yi plans to hire 2~4 PhD students and over 4 master students in the coming year. If you are interested in his research, please contact him by email or wechat.

Teaching

2025 Fall: Multi-Modal Intelligence.

2025 Spring: Introduction to Databases.

Service

He serves as a reviewer or a committee member for CVPR, ICCV, IJCV, TOG, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia (SIGA), AAAI, e.t.c.

Publications

See the full list indexed by google scholar