About Myself
I am a Research Scientist at Apple Switzerland, where I work in the Zurich Vision Lab.
I obtained my Dr.sc. in the Computational Robotics Lab(CRL) at ETH Zürich, supervised by Prof. Stelian Coros and Dr. Bernhard Thomaszewski. Prior to that, I completed my master's degree in Computer Graphics (CGGT) at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Prof. Chenfanfu Jiang. My interests lie in physics-based simulation, computational inverse design and neural representations. I have previously worked for Apple, Meta and Disney.
All projects during my Ph.D. are open-sourced on my GitHub page. I also maintain a code base, which I named WuKong, a figure in Chinese folklore. You'll find my implementation for a few things that come in handy for simulation in graphics.
Publications
Yue Li, Gene Lin, Egor Larionov, Aljaž Božič, Doug Roble,
Ladislav Kavan, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski,
Tuur Stuyck, Hsiao-yu Chen
ACM Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (Proc. ACM Symposium on Computer Animation 2025 (SCA'25)) [PDF] [video]
Yinwei Du, Yue Li, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. ACM Symposium on Computer Animation 2024 (SCA'24)) [PDF] [video]
Yue Li, Logan Numerow, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2024)
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Logan Numerow, Yue Li, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2024)
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Yue Li, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski,
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023)
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Yue Li, Juan Montes, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Proc. International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2022)
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Jonas Zehnder, Yue Li, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021. [PDF] [video] [code]
Yue Li, Marc Habermann, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, Thabo Beeler, Christian Theobalt, International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2021 [PDF] [Project] [video]
Yue Li*, Xuan Li*, Minchen Li*, Yinxin Zhu, Bo Zhu, Chenfanfu Jiang, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (IJNME), 2021. (* Equal Contribution)
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Llogari Casas , Yue Li, Kenny Mitchell . SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Technical Communications.
The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics, 2019.
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Yue Li, Pablo Wiedemann , Kenny Mitchell ,
Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 2019.
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Yue Li, Liqian Ma, Haoqiang Fan, Kenny Mitchell , Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production, 2018. [PDF] (Best Paper Award)
Theses
Defended Apr. 9th, 2025
Committee: Prof. Stelian Coros, Dr. Bernhard Thomaszewski, Prof. Alec Jacobson, Prof. Julian Panetta
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Defended Dec. 4th, 2019
Committee: Prof. Chenfanfu Jiang, Prof. Stephen H. Lane, Prof. Norman Badler
.Research Experiences
Research Scientist Intern
Meta Reality Lab, Sausalito, U.S.A.Computer Vision/Machine Learning Intern
Zurich Vision Lab, Zürich, SwiterlandVisiting Scholar
MPI Informatics, Saarbrücken, GermanyResearch Intern
Disney Research, Glendale, U.S.A.Research Intern
Edinburgh Napier University, remoteResearch Intern
Megvii Research (Face++), Beijing, ChinaAcademics Service
- ACM SIGGRAPH (2023–2025)
- ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (2023–2025)
- ACM Transactions on Graphics (2024)
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2024)
- Eurographics (2024)
- Symposium on Computational Fabrication (2021)
- Visual Computing (2020–2021)
- Computational Models of Motion (2021–2022)
- Physically-Based Simulation in Computer Graphics (2022–2023)
- Introduction to Machine Learning (2024)