Lei Li is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Data Science at the University of Virginia. His research interests are in computer vision and computer graphics, with a focus on advancing machine spatial intelligence to perceive, understand, and interact with the 3D world by developing innovative machine learning techniques combined with geometric principles.
Lei’s work has been published in top-tier venues, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, and IEEE TVCG, covering topics including 3D scene reconstruction, human-scene interaction, shape analysis, geometric transfer learning, and generative models. He has served on technical program committees for major conferences including Eurographics and Pacific Graphics.
Before joining UVA in 2025, Lei worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich in Germany and École Polytechnique / Inria in France. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a B.Eng. in Software Engineering from Shandong University.