Shuang Li

Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
Email: shuang.li.work59 [at] gmail (dot) com

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Research Topics:
Robot Learning
Generative Modeling

I am a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind Robotics team. Previously, I completed my postdoctoral research at Stanford with Shuran Song and Dorsa Sadigh, completed my Ph.D. at MIT advised by Antonio Torralba. I was also a founding member of Voyage AI, a language model startup acquired by MongoDB. My research focus on robot learning and generative modeling.

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

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

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

Datasets and Simulators

VirtualEnv platform for Embodied AI Research
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

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