Bingxuan Li

Bingxuan Li

Hey there! I'm a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I work on Multimodality (Language, Vision) and Agents. My research focuses on modeling and representing the human being in the digital world.

My long-term research vision is to simulate the human being in the digital world. I believe that a true digital twin should not only replicate fine-grained aspects of human behavior, but also continuously evolve alongside the individual it represents. To this end, I investigate how to model human being from multi-modalities and represent human with multi-sensory self-evolving agent. Driven by both curiosity and social responsibility, I have also worked on AI applications for human health and social good, exploring how intelligent systems can meaningfully benefit the next generation.

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Research


My recent works mainly span across two directions:
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Experience

ByteDance Intelligent Creation
Research Intern · San Jose, CA
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Worked on creative multimodal generation (video, audio).
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.
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
Graduate Student Researcher · 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
Undergraduate Student Researcher · 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.

Education

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
PhD, Computer Science
Aug 2025 - present Champaign, IL
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University of California, Los Angeles
Master of Engineering
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024 Los Angeles, CA
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Purdue University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Data Science
Aug 2019 - May 2023 West Lafayette, IN

Last updated: Feb, 2026
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