Shijie Li | Embodied AI | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Shijie Li | Embodied AI | Best Researcher Award

Scientist | A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research | Singapore

Dr. Shijie Li is a computer vision researcher with expertise in 3D perception, embodied AI, and vision-language models, contributing to the development of intelligent systems for real-world applications. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Bonn University under the supervision of Prof. Juergen Gall, following a master’s degree from Nankai University and a bachelor’s degree in Automation Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His professional experience includes research positions and internships at A*STAR Singapore, Qualcomm AI Research in Amsterdam, Intel Labs in Munich, Alibaba DAMO Academy in China, and Technische Universität München in Germany, showcasing strong international collaborations and applied research expertise. His research interests lie in 3D scene understanding, motion forecasting, vision-language integration, semantic segmentation, and novel view synthesis. He has published in leading journals and conferences such as ICCV, CVPR, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TNNLS, WACV, BMVC, ICRA, and IROS, reflecting impactful and consistent contributions. His academic excellence has been recognized through scholarships and awards including the Fortis Enterprise Scholarship, National Inspirational Scholarship, First Class Scholarship, and Outstanding Graduate Award. He has also served as a reviewer for top journals and conferences such as IEEE TPAMI, IJCV, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, and AAAI, reflecting his active role in the research community. His skills include deep learning, diffusion models, semantic and motion forecasting, vision-language modeling, and embodied AI, with a focus on interdisciplinary innovation. His research impact is reflected in 183 citations, 10 documents, and an h-index of 7.

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Featured Publications

Li, S., Abu Farha, Y., Liu, Y., Cheng, M., & Gall, J. (2023). MS-TCN++: Multi-stage temporal convolutional network for action segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 45(6), 6647–6658.

Chen, X., Li, S., Mersch, B., Wiesmann, L., Gall, J., Behley, J., & Stachniss, C. (2021). Moving object segmentation in 3D LiDAR data: A learning-based approach exploiting sequential data. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(4), 6529–6536.

Qiu, Y., Liu, Y., Li, S., & Xu, J. (2020). MiniSeg: An extremely minimum network for efficient COVID-19 segmentation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(11), 13180–13187.

Li, S., Chen, X., Liu, Y., Dai, D., Stachniss, C., & Gall, J. (2021). Multi-scale interaction for real-time LiDAR data segmentation on an embedded platform. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2), 738–745.

Li, S., Zhou, Y., Yi, J., & Gall, J. (2021). Spatial-temporal consistency network for low-latency trajectory forecasting. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 10737–10746.

Prof. Kalfalla Awedat | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Prof. Kalfalla Awedat | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Professor at SUNY Morrisville College, United States

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Advanced fault detection in photovoltaic panels using enhanced U-Net architectures

  • Authors: Khalfalla Awedat, Gurcan Comert, Mustafa Ayad, Abdulmajid Mrebit
    Journal: Machine Learning with Applications
    Year: 2025

COVID-CLNet: COVID-19 Detection With Compressive Deep Learning Approach

  • Authors: Khalfalla Awedat, Almabrok Essa
    Journal: International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing (IJCVIP)
    Year: 2022

Novel Robust Augmentation Approach Based on Sensing Features for Data Classification

  • Authors: Masoud M Alajmi, Khalfalla A Awedat
    Journal: IEEE Access
    Year: 2021

COVID-CLNet: COVID-19 Detection with Compressive Deep Learning Approaches

  • Authors: Khalfalla Awedat, Almabrok Essa
    Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.02234
    Year: 2020

Efficient face recognition using regularized adaptive non-local sparse coding

  • Authors: Masoud Alajmi, Khalfalla Awedat, Almabrok Essa, Fawaz Alassery, Osama S Faragallah
    Journal: IEEE Access
    Year: 2019

Dr. Aiai Wang | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Aiai Wang | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Doctorate at University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

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Quantitative Analysis of Pore Characteristics of Nanocellulose Reinforced Cementitious Tailings Fills Using 3D Reconstruction of CT Images

  • Authors: Wang, Aiai; Cao, Shuai; Yilmaz, Erol
    Journal: Journal of Materials Research and Technology
    Year: 2023

Prof. Haigen Hu | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Prof. Haigen Hu | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Professor at Zhejiang University of Technology, China

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Multipath and noise resilient direction of arrival method for low-cost mechanical arm calibration

  • Authors: Hanmo Chen, Qianwei Zhou, Haigen Hu, Baoqing Li
    Journal: Computers and Electrical Engineering
    Year: 2025

Pruning Networks only Using Few-shot Pre-training Based on Gradient Similarity Frequency

  • Authors: Haigen Hu, Huihuang Zhang, Qianwei Zhou, Tieming Chen
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
    Year: 2025

An anchor-free instance segmentation method for cells based on mask contour

  • Authors: Qi Chen, Huihuang Zhang, Qianwei Zhou, Qiu Guan, Haigen Hu
    Journal: Applied Intelligence
    Year: 2025

RMFDNet: Redundant and Missing Feature Decoupling Network for salient object detection

  • Authors: Qianwei Zhou, Jintao Wang, Jiaqi Li, Haigen Hu, Keli Hu
    Journal: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
    Year: 2025

A comprehensive survey on contrastive learning

  • Authors: Haigen Hu, Xiaoyuan Wang, Yan Zhang, Qi Chen, Qiu Guan
    Journal: Neurocomputing
    Year: 2024

Ms. Beenish Khalid | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Ms. Beenish Khalid | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

National University of Sciences and Technology , Islamabad, Sweden

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A triple-shallow CNN with genetic algorithm channel selection method for classifying EEG complex limb movements

  • Author: Beenish Khalid, Ali Hassan, Muhammad Yasin, Muhammad Salman, Muhammad Fasih Uddin Butt, Wadood Abdul, Imran Khan Niazi
    Journal: Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
    Year: 2025

EMD and VMD in Pre-Movement EEG Signal Analysis: A Hybrid Mode Selection to Classify Upper Limb Complex Movements Using Statistical Features

  • Author: Beenish Khalid, Ali Hassan, Ehsan Ullah Munir, Imran Khan Niazi
    Journal: 2023 IEEE 20th International Conference on Smart Communities: Improving Quality of Life using AI, Robotics and IoT (HONET)
    Year: 2023

EEG Compression Using Motion Compensated Temporal Filtering and Wavelet Based Subband Coding

  • Author: Beenish Khalid, Muhammad Majid, Imran Fareed Nizami, Syed Muhammad Anwar, Majdi Alnowamii
    Journal: IEEE Access
    Year: 2020

Ms. Chetna Kwatra | Deep Learning | Women Researcher Award

Ms. Chetna Kwatra | Deep Learning | Women Researcher Award

Lovely Professional University, India

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Orcid

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Harnessing ensemble deep learning models for precise detection of gynaecological cancers

  • Authors: C.V. Kwatra, Chetna Vaid, H. Kaur, Harpreet, S.P. Potharaju, Sai Prasad, D.B. Jadhav, Devyani Bhamare, S.B. Tambe, Sagar B.
    Journal: Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health
    Year: 2025

Dr. Meng Wang | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Meng Wang | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Doctorate at Xi’an Polytechnic University, China

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Publications

Place Your Next Branch with MILE-RUN: Min-dist Location Selection over User Movement

  • Author: Meng Wang
    Journal: Information Sciences
    Year: 2018

PINOCCHIO: Probabilistic Influence-Based Location Selection over Moving Objects

  • Author: Meng Wang
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
    Year: 2016

Dr. Sageengrana S | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Sageengrana S | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Doctorate at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India

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Optimized RB-RNN: Development of hybrid deep learning for analyzing student’s behaviours in online-learning using brain waves and chatbots

  • Authors: S. Sageengrana, S. Subramanian Selvakumar, S. Selvaraj Srinivasan
    Journal: Expert Systems with Applications
    Year: 2024

Mr. Hailong Ning | Deep Learning | Best Scholar Award

Mr. Hailong Ning | Deep Learning | Best Scholar Award

XI’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, China

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Orientational clustering learning for open-set hyperspectral image classification

  • Authors: Hao Xu, Wenjing Chen, Cheng Tan, Hailong Ning, Hao Sun, Wei Xie
  • Journal: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  • Year: 2024

An ensemble learning-enhanced multitask learning method for continuous affect recognition from facial images

  • Authors: Ercheng Pei, Zhanxuan Hu, Lang He, Hailong Ning, Abel Díaz Berenguer
  • Journal: Expert Systems with Applications
  • Year: 2024

Hierarchical Semantic-Guided Contextual Structure-Aware Network for Spectral Satellite Image Dehazing

  • Authors: Lei Yang, Jianzhong Cao, Hua Wang, Sen Dong, Hailong Ning
  • Journal: Remote Sensing
  • Year: 2024

Remote Sensing Image Dehazing via Dual-View Knowledge Transfer

  • Authors: Lei Yang, Jianzhong Cao, He Bian, Rui Qu, Huinan Guo, Hailong Ning
  • Journal: Applied Sciences
  • Year: 2024

Ultra-Lightweight Spatial-Spectral Feature Cooperation Network for Change Detection in Remote Sensing Images

  • Authors: Tao Lei, Xinzhe Geng, Hailong Ning*, Zhiyong Lv, Maoguo Gong, Yaochu Jin, Asoke K. Nandi
  • Journal: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Year: 2023

Dr. Sitara Afzal | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Sitara Afzal | Deep Learning | Best Researcher Award

Doctorate at Sejong University, South Korea

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A comprehensive survey on affective computing; challenges, trends, applications, and future directions

  • Authors: Sitara Afzal, Haseeb Ali Khan, Md Jalil Piran, Jong Weon Lee
  • Journal: IEEE access
  • Year: 2024

Construction of a uniform zeolitic imidazole framework (ZIF-8) nanocrystal through a wet chemical route towards supercapacitor application

  • Authors: Iqra Rabani, Je-Won Lee, Taeyoon Lim, Hai Bang Truong, Sobia Nisar, Sitara Afzal, Young-Soo Seo
  • Journal: RSC advances
  • Year: 2024

Leveraging Augmented Reality, Semantic-Segmentation, and VANETs for Enhanced Driver’s Safety Assistance.

  • Authors: Sitara Afzal, Imran Ullah Khan, Irfan Mehmood, Jong Weon Lee
  • Journal: Computers, Materials & Continua
  • Year: 2024

PlantView: Integrating deep learning with 3D modeling for indoor plant augmentation

  • Authors: Sitara Afzal, Haseeb Ali Khan, Jong Weon Lee
  • Journal: Ecological Informatics
  • Year: 2024

Deep-learning-assisted business intelligence model for cryptocurrency forecasting using social media sentiment

  • Authors: Muhammad Yasir, Muhammad Attique, Khalid Latif, Ghulam Mujtaba Chaudhary, Sitara Afzal, Kamran Ahmed, Farhan Shahzad
  • Journal: Journal of Enterprise Information Management
  • Year: 2023