About

I am currently a Senior Algorithm Expert at Alibaba, ATH, Qwen Business Unit. We focus on cutting-edge technologies in image/video generation and editing, multimodal generation and unified multimodal models. Our algorithm has been integrated into the Qwen App, serving millions of users.

Before joining Alibaba, I was a Senior Researcher at Tencent AI Lab/ARC Lab. I obtained my Ph.D. in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2021, supervised by Prof. Pedro V. Sander. Prior to that, I received my B.E. degree from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2017.

👋 We are actively seeking highly motivated research interns, algorithm engineers, and researchers to join our team working on related topics. Please feel free to reach out via email (xliea@connect.ust.hk) with your CV.

📌 News

• Mar 2026: I joined Alibaba.
• Mar 2026: 2 papers were accepted to SIGGRAPH 2026.
• Mar 2026: 1 paper was accepted to IJCV.
• Feb 2026: 2 papers were accepted to CVPR 2026.
• Jan 2026: 3 papers were accepted to ICLR 2026.
• Dec 2025: 1 paper was accepted to AAAI 2025.
• Sep 2025: 1 paper was accepted to PAMI.
• Aug 2025: 1 paper was accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2025.
• Jun 2025: 1 paper was accepted to ICCV 2025.
• Feb 2025: 4 papers were accepted to CVPR 2025.

Education

• Ph.D, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2021
• B.E., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2017

Work Experience

• [2026-now] Senior Algorithm Expert, Qwen Business Unit, Alibaba
• [2021-2025] Senior Researcher, AI Lab/ARC Lab, Tencent

Publications

* equal contribution   # corresponding author / project lead

2026:

• ViewWeaver: Geometry-Grounded Neural Generative Rendering for 3D-Aware Image Customization
  Yaowei Li, Xiaoyu Li^#, Zhaoyang Zhang, Hongxiang Li, Long Chen, Ying Shan, and Yuexian Zou
  SIGGRAPH 2026.

• BoxCtrl: 3D-Aware Visual Prompting for Geometric Image Editing
  Feifei Wang, Shiyuan Yang, Xiaoyu Li, Jing Liao
  SIGGRAPH 2026.

• IC-Custom: Diverse Image Customization via In-Context Learning
  Yaowei Li, Xiaoyu Li^#, Zhaoyang Zhang, Yuxuan Bian, Gan Liu, Xinyuan Li, Jiale Xu, Wenbo Hu, Yating Liu, Lingen Li, Jing Cai, Yuexian Zou, Yancheng He, Ying Shan
  ICLR 2026. [Page] [Paper] [Code]

• GenCompositor: Generative Video Compositing with Diffusion Transformer
  Shuzhou Yang, Xiaoyu Li^#, Xiaodong Cun, Guangzhi Wang, Lingen Li, Ying Shan, Jian Zhang
  ICLR 2026. [Page] [Paper] [Code]

• ToonComposer: Streamlining Cartoon Production with Generative Post-Keyframing
  Lingen Li, Guangzhi Wang, Zhaoyang Zhang, Yaowei Li, Xiaoyu Li, Qi Dou, Jinwei Gu, Tianfan Xue, Ying Shan
  ICLR 2026. [Page] [Paper] [Code]

• CubeComposer: Spatio-Temporal Autoregressive 4K 360° Video Generation from Perspective Video
  Lingen Li, Guangzhi Wang, Xiaoyu Li, Zhaoyang Zhang, Qi Dou, Jinwei Gu, Tianfan Xue, Ying Shan
  CVPR 2026. [Page] [Paper] [Code]

• VerseCrafter: Dynamic Realistic Video World Model with 4D Geometric Control
  Sixiao Zheng, Minghao Yin, Wenbo Hu, Xiaoyu Li, Ying Shan, Yanwei Fu
  CVPR 2026. [Page] [Paper] [Code]