Dr. Chen Li received his Ph.D. (with the National Scholarship) and B.Eng degrees from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, under the supervision of Prof. Kun Zhou, in 2017 and 2011. From 2012 to 2016, he worked with Dr. Steve Lin at Microsoft Research Asia as a full-time research intern in the Internet Graphics Group.

He is currently a senior researcher at the WeChat AI Team of Tencent, leading the team of computer vision research and development. And he was a senior researcher of YouTu X-Lab of the Social Network Group of Tencent from Sept. 2017 to Apr. 2020, working with Dr. Jiaya Jia and Dr. Yu-Wing Tai. He worked as an algorithm engineer in DJI for eight months before joining Tencent.

His research interests include computer vision and computer graphics, specifically 3D reconstruction, appearance modeling, computational photography, and the relevant VR/AR applications on facial images.

He has published journal papers on TPAMI, CVIU, TIP, and conference papers on CVPR, ECCV, 3DV. He is also the reviewer of TPAMI, TIP, TVCG, CVPR, and ICCV.