Shuang Li

Senior Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
Email: shuangligoogle [at] google (dot) com

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Research Topics:
Generative Modeling
Robot Learning

I am a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Previously, I was a postdoc at Stanford with Shuran Song and Dorsa Sadigh working on Generative Modeling and Robot Learning. I earned my Ph.D. degree from MIT, under the mentorship of Antonio Torralba on Generative Modeling. I also work closely with Igor Mordatch during my Ph.D.

Recent Talks

[2025/5] Keynote talk at CVPR Workshop Foundation Models Meet Embodied Agents 2025: Vision and Language Models for Decision-Making
[2025/3] Invited talk at AAAI 2025: How Vision and Language Models Are Changing Decision-Making
[2023/12] Invited Talk at NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Diffusion Models
[2023/8] Invited Talk at Google
[2023/8] Diffusion Models Course at SIGGRAPH
[2023/5] Invited Talk at UC Berkeley
[2023/4] Invited Talk at Nanyang Technological University
[2023/2] Invited Talk at Columbia
[2023/2] Invited Talk at UIUC
[2023/2] Invited Talk at UT Austin
[2022/12] Invited Talk at UC San Diego
[2022/11] Invited Talk at Cornell Tech
[2022/11] Invited Talk at UC Berkeley
[2022/11] Invited Talk at Stanford
[2022/11] Invited Talk at Northeastern

Workshops / Tutorials Organizer

Visual Generative Modeling: What’s After Diffusion? at CVPR 2025
Continual Robot Learning from Humans at RSS 2025
Knowledge in Generative Models at ECCV 2024
Diffusion Models Course at SIGGRAPH 2023
Social Intelligence in Humans and Robots at ICRA 2021, RSS 2022, RSS 2023
MIT Visual Computing Workshop 2021
Wider Face and Person Challenge at ICCV 2019

News

I have been awarded CIFAR AI Chair Award 2024.
I have been selected as one of the EECS Rising Stars 2022.
I have been selected as an Outstanding Reviewer for ICML 2022.
I have been selected as a finalist for 2022 Qualcomm Fellowship. Thanks, Qualcomm!
I have been awarded 2021 Facebook Research Fellowship. Thanks, Facebook!
I have been awarded 2019 Adobe Research Fellowship. Thanks, Adobe!
A summary of our recent works on Compositional Generalization.
A summary of our recent works on Energy-based Models.

Datasets and Environments

VirtualHome multi-agent embodied environment for household activities
V-HICO dataset for video-based human-object interaction detection
CUHK-SYSU dataset for person re-identification
CUHK-PEDES dataset for natural language based person re-identification

Selected Publications [Full List] ( show by date / show by topic)
Research Topics: Generative Modeling / Robot Learning

Selected Honors

CIFAR AI Chair, 2024 [Link]
EECS Rising Stars, 2022 [Link]
ICML Outstanding Reviewer, 2022 [Link]
Qualcomm Fellowship Finalist, 2022 [Link]
Facebook Research Fellowship, 2021 [Link]
Adobe Research Fellowship, 2019 [Link]
MIT Seneff-Zue CS Fellowship, 2018
Outstanding Students Award, CUHK, 2018

Contact

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
32 Vassar Street, 32-D394
Cambridge, MA 02139