Rui Li

CS PhD Student • Stanford University

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Hi! I am a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford University. Previously, I received my batchlor's degree from School of the Gifted Young, University of Scinece and Technology of China (USTC).

Research

My research focuses on Multimodal Foundation Models, Video Understanding, and AI for Science. My long-term goal is to build trustworthy, scalable multimodal foundation models—systems that reason over time, generalize across domains, and advance scientific discovery through verifiable and aligned behavior.

Selected Publications

Awards

2025
Guo Moruo Scholarship (Highest Honor for Undergraduates in USTC)
2022-24
National Scholarship (0.2% in China)
2024
SenseTime Scholarship (30 in China)

Services

Reviewer

ICLR 2024-2025, EMNLP 2025, ACL 2025

Miscellaneous

In my spare time, I enjoy playing the piano and listening to classical music, with a special fondness for the works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (梁祝小提琴协奏曲).