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Yuchen Li

李禹陈

PhD Student in Computer Vision

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

I am a final-year PhD student at MBZUAI working on spatially grounded multimodal intelligence. My research builds vision-language and generative models that understand and create 2D, 3D, video, and 4D content. My representative works include Perceptio, UCanDance, PointNeXt, and 3D-CoMPaT.
I am actively seeking research scientist, postdoctoral, and industry research opportunities in multimodal VLMs, spatial reasoning, world models, and generative AI starting in 2027.

Education

Interests

  • Perceptio
    • Spatial-token VLM / Amazon Science internship
  • UCanDance
    • Music-driven long-horizon video generation / Sony AI
  • PointNeXt
    • NeurIPS, 1,450+ citations
  • 3D-CoMPaT
    • ECCV Oral / dataset
  • 3DCoMPaT++

Research

Experience

Previous
Jul 2025 – Nov 2025

Amazon Science - Prime Video

Applied Scientist Research Intern
Seattle, USA
Scaled distributed training for Perceptio, a perception-augmented VLM, using 256 NVIDIA H200 GPUs on AWS for complex 2D and 3D spatial perception reasoning.
Previous
Jun 2024 – Nov 2024

Sony AI

Research Intern
Tokyo, Japan
Developed a music-driven dance video generation pipeline and curated high-quality motion datasets for diffusion-based dance generation.
Previous
Sep 2022 – Jun 2023

Dubai Business Associates

Innovation Associate
Dubai, UAE
Selected for a prestigious mini-MBA program under the privilege of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, with a 0.3% acceptance rate.
Previous
Feb 2022 – Jun 2023

Emirates Airlines

Strategy Consultant
Dubai, UAE
Consulted for Emirates Airlines on a data-driven AI chatbot and a three-year strategic performance roadmap.
Previous
Oct 2022 – Jan 2023

Dubai Future Foundation

Innovation Consultant
Dubai, UAE
Worked on sidewalk delivery robot perception and navigation.
Previous
Aug 2020 – Aug 2022

KAUST - Vision CAIR Group

Research Assistant
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Worked on semi-supervised few-shot learning, meta-learning, and 3D object recognition.
Previous
Jul 2019 – Aug 2019

University of British Columbia

Visiting Student, Electronics and Computer Engineering
Vancouver, Canada
Visited the Electronics and Computer Engineering program.

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Last updated: March 2026

Public Coverage

Public Coverage

36Kr Europe · Jun 12, 2025

72小时全程纪实：人类首度与AI亲密接触

Featured in 36Kr Europe's documentary coverage of a 72-hour AI survival challenge, discussing AI agents, AI video creation, and human-AI interaction.

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Next Capital · Jan 2024

迪拜商业英才李禹陈：浅谈中东2030愿景

Invited by Next Capital to share perspectives on the Middle East 2030 vision and opportunities for Chinese founders in the region.

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Xiaoyuzhou · Podcast

07. 去中东上学：全靠酋长资助，不用交学费，还赚钱！

Guest appearance on 掘金中东, covering KAUST, MBZUAI, Dubai Business Associates, Middle East universities, and life across the region.

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Community Service

  • Core organizer: CVPR 2023 Workshop on Compositional 3D Vision and 3D-CoMPaT Challenge.
  • Program chair and reviewer for leading AI conferences and journals, including TPAMI, IJCV, CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, TCSVT, BMVC, TNNLS and NeurIPS.

Awards

  • 2023/06: Organizer, CVPR Workshop on Compositional 3D Vision and 3D-CoMPaT Challenge.
  • 2021/05: Super AI Youth, Jiangmen Innovation Ventures.
  • 2019/06: 2nd Prize, ASC World University Student Supercomputer Challenge.
  • 2019/04: Honorable Mention, International Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling.

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