About Me

I obtained my Ph.D degree in CSE Department from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. My Ph.D supervisor was Prof. Dit-Yan Yeung. I was a visiting scholar working with Prof. Matt Mason’s Manipulation Lab in Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. Before that, I got my Bachelor Degree of Engineering in June 2014 from the College of Computer Science and Technology of Zhejiang University. I am now a senior research engineer at Sea AI Lab working on reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms and applications. From 2019 to 2021 I worked as a senior applied resercher at Tencent on RL for game AI.

I am especially interested in applying machine learning to real-world problems.

Research Interest

My research interest focuses on applying computational and statistical approaches to real problems in computer vision and robotics control. Currently, I mainly work on deep learning and reinforcement learning. Especially I am interested in the perception and control of aerial robots.

Publications

• Siyi Li, Jiaji Zhou, Zhenzhong Jia, Dit-Yan Yeung, and Matthew T. Mason. Learning accurate objectness instance segmentation from photo-realistic rendering for robotic manipulation. Proceedings of the 2018 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 5-8 November 2018.
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• Siyi Li, Tianbo Liu, Chi Zhang, Dit-Yan Yeung, and Shaojie Shen. Learning unmanned aerial vehicle control for autonomous target following. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Stockholm, Sweden, 13-19 July 2018.
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• Siyi Li, Dit-Yan Yeung. Visual object tracking for unmanned aerial vehicles: A benchmark and new motion models. Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), pp.4140-4146, San Francisco, California, USA, 4-9 February 2017.
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Preprints

• Naiyan Wang, Siyi Li, Abhinav Gupta, Dit-Yan Yeung. Transferring rich feature hierarchies for robust visual tracking. CoRR abs/1501.04587 (2015) [Paper] [Code]
• A survey on methods and applications of deep reinforcement learning. PhD Qualifying Exam, 2017. [Paper][Slides]

Teaching

• COMP2711 Discrete Mathematical Tools for Computer Science, Spring 2015, Teaching Assistant.
• COMP1022Q Introduction to Computing with Excel VBA, Fall 2015, Teaching Assistant.
• COMP5212 Machine Learning, Spring 2016, Teaching Assistant.

Academic Service

• PC Member: IJCAI 2015, AAAI 2018
• Journal Reviewer: TNNLS, TIP