Zekun Li
Computer Science Ph.D.
Brown University

Zekun Li 李泽坤

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Brown University, working with Prof. Srinath Sridhar at the Interactive 3D Vision & Learning Lab.

I received my B.Eng. degree with honors in Computer Science from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), where I was advised by Prof. Zhao Kang. Previously, I interned at Meta, Honda Research Institute, and Tencent AI Lab.

I am looking for a Research Scientist position starting in Fall 2027. Please reach out if you think I could be a good fit for your team!

Research Interests

My research focuses on human-centric visual content generation and multimodal learning, with interests in generative models, computer graphics, and human interactions.

Publications

* / # indicate equal contribution.
HumanCLAW framework for evaluating embodied action decisions

HumanCLAW: Can Vision-Language Models Act Through a Body?

Li Siyao*, Jiawei Gu*, Shuai Liu#, Kairui Hu#, Zekun Li, Linjie Li, Chengcheng Tang, Po-Chen Wu, Ivan Shugurov, Lingni Ma, Michael Zollhoefer, Sizhe An, Abhay Mittal, Amy Zhao, Ranjay Krishna, Manling Li, Ziwei Liu, Chuan Guo

TL;DR We introduce a framework and benchmark that isolate VLM action decisions from motor-control errors to evaluate embodied action intelligence.

UMO: Unified In-Context Learning Unlocks Motion Foundation Model Priors — teaser

UMO: Unified In-Context Learning Unlocks Motion Foundation Model Priors

Xiaoyan Cong*, Zekun Li*, Zhiyang Dou, Hongyu Li, Omid Taheri, Chuan Guo, Abhay Mittal, Sizhe An, Taku Komura, Wojciech Matusik, Michael J. Black, Srinath Sridhar

TL;DR We propose a generic framework to express various downstream tasks under a unified training paradigm and unlock the generative prior of single-purpose text-to-motion foundation model.

Deform360: A Massive Multi-view Visuotactile Dataset for Deformable World Models — teaser

Deform360: A Massive Multi-view Visuotactile Dataset for Deformable World Models

Hongyu Li, Wanjia Fu, Xiaoyan Cong, Zekun Li, Binghao Huang, Hanxiao Jiang, Xintong He, Yiqing Liang, Rao Fu, Tao Lu, Srinath Sridhar, Kevin A. Smith, George Konidaris, Yunzhu Li

TL;DR We propose a massive multi-view visuotactile dataset, designed to provide a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating 2D and 3D world models in robotic manipulation.

LLaMo: Scaling Pretrained Language Models for Unified Motion Understanding and Generation with Continuous Autoregressive Tokens — teaser

LLaMo: Scaling Pretrained Language Models for Unified Motion Understanding and Generation with Continuous Autoregressive Tokens

Zekun Li, Sizhe An, Chengcheng Tang, Chuan Guo, Ivan Shugurov, Linguang Zhang, Amy Zhao, Srinath Sridhar, Lingling Tao, Abhay Mittal

TL;DR We propose a generic framework to extend pretrained LLMs for human motion generation and understanding, while preserving the original text-only performance via a modality-specific Mixture-of-Transformers (MoT).

EgoReAct: Egocentric Video-Driven 3D Human Reaction Generation — teaser

EgoReAct: Egocentric Video-Driven 3D Human Reaction Generation

Libo Zhang, Zekun Li, Tianyu Li, Zeyu Cao, Rui Xu, Xiao-Xiao Long, Wenjia Wang, Jingbo Wang, Yuan Liu, Wenping Wang, Daquan Zhou, Taku Komura, Zhiyang Dou

TL;DR We propose a real-time ego-perception driven human reaction generation model and a motion dataset with spatially aligned ego-video.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Brown University

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B.Eng. in Computer Science, with honors

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

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Experience

Research Intern

Meta Reality Labs

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Supervisor: Dr. Alexander Richard

Research Intern

Meta Reality Labs

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Human motion foundation models with Abhay Mittal.

Research Intern

Honda Research Institute

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Human-object interaction tracking with Enna Sachdeva.

Research Intern

Tencent AI Lab

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Garment animation and generation, advised by Prof. Fang Zhao.

Research Intern

Cognitive Computing and Intelligent Decision Lab

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Image translation, advised by Prof. Zhao Kang.