Bingxuan Li

Bingxuan Li

Hey there! I'm a second-year PhD student in Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) , advised by Professors Tong Zhang and Huan Zhang . I'm also a Student Researcher at Google. Previously, I graduated from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where I was in UCLA NLP group.

I work on Multimodal AI and Robot Learning.

My long-term research goal is to build civilized general-purpose robots. I'm interested in how to enable scalable and efficient robot learning for zero-shot generalizability, and ensure robots operate safely and appropriately in the human-involved environment. My recent work explores multimodal learning from long-horizon interaction, world modeling for Physical AI, and controllable multimodal generation.

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Research


My recent works mainly span across three directions:
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Experience

Google
Student Researcher · San Francisco, CA
May 2026 - Present
Mentors: Yiwen Song, Yale Song
ByteDance Intelligent Creation
Research Intern · San Jose, CA
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Mentor: Yulei Niu
Stanford University
Visiting PhD Student · Palo Alto, CA
May 2025 - Oct 2025
Host: Dr. Pan Lu, Prof. James Zou
Worked on AI for Science, Self-Evovling Agent.
Adobe Research
Research Collaboration · Los Angeles, CA
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Mentor: Dr. Jiuxiang Gu
Worked on Code Generation and Multimodal Agent.
The Wharton School, UPenn
Research Assistant · Philadelphia, PA
May 2022 - Aug 2025
Advisor: Prof. Bingxin Zhao
Worked on AI for Science, Agentic AI, Precision Medicine.
UCLA NLP
Research Assistant · Los Angeles, CA
Oct 2023 - May 2025
Advisors: Prof. Nanyun Peng, Prof. Kai-Wei Chang, Prof. Yiwei Wang
Worked on Grounded Multimodal Reasoning, Controllable Multimodal Generation.
Chicago Booth, UChicago
Research Assistant · Chicago, IL
Dec 2022 - Dec 2024
Advisor: Prof. Amy Ward
Worked on Queueing Theory, LLM Reasoning, Machine Learning.
Purdue University
Research Assistant · West Lafayette, IN
Mar 2022 - May 2024
Advisors: Prof. Pengyi Shi, Prof. Tianyi Zhang
Worked on Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, AI for Social Good.

Last updated: Sep, 2026
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