About Me
I am a Ph.D. student at MIT EECS advised by Prof. Yilun Du. I received my M.S. degree in MIT EECS in 2026, and B.E. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2024. During the undergraduate period, I was very fortunate to work with Prof. Linglong Dai on wireless communication systems, and Prof. Tianfan Xue on NeRF and 3D vision.
My research interests include 3D vision, robotics, and generative world models. I am interested in exploring generative modeling to reason, predict, and interact with the physical world.
📝 Publications
Structured 4D Latent Predictive Model for Robot Planning
Zhiyi Li, Peilin Wu*, Xiaoshen Han*, Ruojin Cai, Yilun Du
ICML 2026
Generalized Dynamics Generation towards Scannable Physical World Model
arXiv Preprint 2025
Yichen Li, Zhiyi Li, Brandon Feng, Antonio Torralba
Obj-NeRF: Extracting Object NeRFs from Multi-view Images
Zhiyi Li, Lihe Ding, Tianfan Xue
arXiv Preprint 2023
RIS Energy Efficiency Optimization with Practical Power Models
IWCMC 2023
Zhiyi Li, Jida Zhang, Jieao Zhu, Linglong Dai
Wideband Active RISs: Architecture, Modeling, and Beamforming Design
IEEE Communications Letters
Jida Zhang, Zhiyi Li, Zijian Zhang
📖 Educations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2024.09 - 2026.05
Cambridge, MA, USA
💻 Experiences
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Assistant in Multimedia Laboratory
2023.07 - 2023.09
Hong Kong S.A.R., China