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 (5)
2023
Assemble Them All: Physics-Based Planning for Generalizable Assembly by Disassembly
This work proposes a novel method to efficiently plan physically…
2022
Learning Dense Reward with Temporal Variant Self-Supervision
Rewards play an essential role in reinforcement learning for robotic…
2021
Robotic assembly of timber joints using reinforcement learning
In architectural construction, automated robotic assembly is…
Blog Articles
2023
Safe Self-Supervised Learning of Insertion Skills in the Real World using Tactile and Visual Sensing
Exploring how to safely train robots how to perform industrial…