Bingxuan Li
Hey there! I'm a second-year PhD student in Computer
Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC )
. 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
Physical AI :
MotorMind (arxiv 2026) ,
TAILOR (NeurIPS-2026) ,
Creative Physical
Intelligence (NeurIPS-2026) ,
CreativityBench (COLM-2026) ,
World Model as Tool (ACL-2026)
Multimodal Learning and Reinforcement Learning :
Long-Horizon Embodied Decision-Making (arxiv 2026) ,
Agentic Memory (NeurIPS-2026) ,
SEA (COLM-2026) ,
PEARL (ACL-2026) ,
Embodied Web Agent (NeurIPS-2025) ,
Heart-brain connections (Science)
Controllable Multimodal Generation :
VIS-Ground (arxiv 2026) ,
EchoFoley (CVPR-2026) ,
REFFLY (NAACL-2025) ,
CoDA (ICML-2025) ,
METAL (ACL-2025)
Divide-and-Conquer Generation
(EMNLP-2024)
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Google Scholar .
Experience
Google
Student Researcher
· San Francisco, CA
May 2026 - Present
Worked on grounded interactive video generation.
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
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
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
PhD, Computer Science
Aug 2025 - present
Champaign, IL
University of California, Los Angeles
Master of Engineering
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
Los Angeles, CA
Purdue University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Data
Science
Aug 2019 - May 2023
West Lafayette, IN
