Hi, I am Lei, a Research Scientist at Shanghai AI Laboratory. I am now leading the AI for Science Group, aiming at developing the next-generation AI techniques that are capable of achieving autonomous discovery.
Prior to that, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia, working with Prof. Wanli Ouyang. I received my PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales, Australia, under the supervision of Prof. Lina Yao and Prof. Salil Kanhere.
My research interests lay in Science Foundatation Models, Multi-agent Systems, and their applications in autonomous scientific discovery. I serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS, Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition and IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, and reviewers for a set of prestigious conferences and journals such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, IJCAI, KDD, ECCV, TPAMI, TKDE, TIP, TMM etc. I am also a recipient of the 2020 Google PhD Fellowship, 2020 UNSW Engineering Excellence Award, 2021 Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses, and 2022 WAIC Yunfan Award.
If you are interested in a research scientist, research engineer, or a PhD position at the Shanghai AI Lab, feel free to drop me an email.
Equal contribution+, Corresponding author*