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Zekai Li | University of California, San Diego
PhD Student
University of California, San Diego
zekaili (at) ucsd.edu
Zekai Li
About Me
I am a first-year PhD student at UC San Diego supervised by professor Zhijian Liu at Z-Lab. I completed my bachelor’s degree with first class honor at National University of Singapore where I was mentored by Dr. Kai Wang and Professor Yang You.
I’m open to collaboration or discussion about any research topics. Feel free to contact me via email: zekaili [at] ucsd [dot] edu.
Research Interests
- Efficient Deep Learning: dataset distillation, model compression, training and inference acceleration
- Generative Models: video generation, parameter generation
Research Experience
- NUS HPC-AI Lab [November 2023 - May 2024]: Research Assistant. Advisor: Professor Yang You.
- Carnegie Mellon University [June 2024 - October 2024]: Research Internship. Advisor: Professor Alexander Hauptmann.
- University of Toronto [March 2024 - June 2024]: Research Internship. Advisor: Professor Konstantinos N Plataniotis.
- NUS Web/IR Group [May 2023 - February 2024]: Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Advisor: Professor Kan Min-Yen.
News
[Sep. 2025] Three papers are accepted to NeurIPS 2025. Congratulations to all my collaborators.
[Apr. 2025] I’ll be joining Z-Lab as a PhD student advised by Professor Zhijian Liu at UC San Diego.
[Feb. 2025] Two papers on dataset distillation and diffusion model acceleration are accepted to CVPR 2025.
Recent Publications
* Equal Contribution, † Project Lead
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Zekai Li*†, Xinhao Zhong*, Samir Khaki, Zhiyuan Liang, Yuhao Zhou, Mingjia Shi, Ziqiao Wang, Xuanlei Zhao, Wangbo Zhao, Ziheng Qin, Mengxuan Wu, Pengfei Zhou, Haonan Wang, David Junhao Zhang, Jia-Wei Liu, Shaobo Wang, Dai Liu, Linfeng Zhang, Guang Li, Kun Wang, Zheng Zhu, Zhiheng Ma, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Jiancheng Lv, Yaochu Jin, Peihao Wang, Kaipeng Zhang, Lingjuan Lyu, Yiran Huang, Zeynep Akata, Zhiwei Deng, Xindi Wu, George Cazenavette, Yuzhang Shang, Justin Cui, Jindong Gu, Qian Zheng, Hao Ye, Shuo Wang, Xiaobo Wang, Yan Yan, Angela Yao, Mike Zheng Shou, Tianlong Chen, Hakan Bilen, Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Manolis Kellis, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, Zhangyang Wang, Bo Zhao, Yang You, Kai Wang -
CVPR
Kai Wang*, Zekai Li*, Zhiqi Cheng, Samir Khaki, Ahmad Sajedi, Ramakrishna Vedantam, Konstantinos N Plataniotis, Alexander Hauptmann, and Yang YouIEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025. -
CVPR
Kai Wang, Yukun Zhou, Mingjia Shi, Zekai Li, Zhihang Yuan, Yuzhang Shang, Xiaojiang Peng, Hanwang Zhang, Yang YouIEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025. -
Mengxuan Wu*, Zekai Li*†, Zhiyuan Liang*, Moyang Li, Xuanlei Zhao, Samir Khaki, Zheng Zhu, Xiaojiang Peng, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, Kai Wang, Wangbo Zhao, Yang You -
Zekai Li*, Ziyao Guo*, Wangbo Zhao, Tianle Zhang, Zhi-Qi Cheng, Samir Khaki, Kaipeng Zhang, Ahmad Sajedi, Konstantinos N Plataniotis, Kai Wang, Yang You -
ICASSP
Zekai Li, Wei PengIEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023.PDF Accept (Poster)
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