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Chengkun (Charlie) Li

PhD Student in Computer Science

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)

I’m a PhD student in Computer Science at , working with Prof. Alexander Mathis in the Mathis Group for Computational Neuroscience and AI. My research focuses on multimodal and continual learning for embodied systems, connecting perception, reasoning, and motor control.

Before my PhD, I completed an MSc in Robotics at EPFL and a master’s thesis at on continual skill learning for ANYmal, supervised by Prof. Marco Hutter and Prof. Caglar Gulcehre. I was also a student researcher at Zurich, where I worked on InkSight, an open-source system for converting images of handwriting into digital ink.

Earlier, I worked at EPFL CVLab on efficient 6D object pose estimation with modular quantization-aware training, at ByteDance AI Lab on multimodal representation learning, and on projects in 3D perception and Cryo-ET generative modeling.

Outside of research, I enjoy board games 🎲, soccer ⚽, tennis 🎾, and music 🎶. Feel free to reach out to me if you want to join in on a hike or play some board games.

Work with me

I’m open to collaborations with doctoral students and motivated Master’s students interested in continual learning, multimodal systems, embodied AI, and computational neuroscience.

If you have a solid deep learning foundation and want to work on these topics, I’d love to chat about potential research projects. EPFL Master’s students should also follow the instructions on our lab website.


Research Interests

  • Multimodal and Embodied Learning
  • Continual / Open-Ended Learning
  • Motor Control, Perception, and Reasoning

Industry Experience

  • Student Researcher, 2023 - 2024

    Google Research

  • Computer Vision Research Intern, 2021

    ByteDance AI Lab

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