Hui Li
Senior Principal Research Scientist
Americas
Biography
Hui Li is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Robotics Lab in Autodesk Research, where her research focus is at the intersection of machine learning and robotics, including topics such as reinforcement learning, sim-to-real transfer, and multimodal learning for robotic manipulation.
Prior to Autodesk, Hui led the R&D team at Airware, building computer vision and machine learning capabilities for commercial drones, and led robotics research at Boeing, building agile robotic platforms for airplane manufacturing. She holds a PhD in AI from MIT.
Publications (7)
2025
In-Context Imitation Learning via Next-Token PredictionThis robotics approach allows flexible and training-free execution of…
2023
Safe Self-Supervised Learning in Real of Visuo-Tactile Feedback Policies for Industrial InsertionThis research introduces a robotics method that reduces human input…
2022
Learning Dense Reward with Temporal Variant Self-SupervisionRewards play an essential role in reinforcement learning for robotic…
Blog Articles
2023
Safe Self-Supervised Learning of Insertion Skills in the Real World using Tactile and Visual SensingExploring how to safely train robots how to perform industrial…