Yi Zili is currently an Associate Professor, Gusu Youth Professor, and doctoral supervisor at the School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University. His research focuses on technologies for robot brains, including but not limited to large language models, agents, memory, VLA, and world models. He has published more than 50 papers at top AI conferences and journals such as CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, and AAAI, with over 4,000 citations according to Google Scholar. He has served as a reviewer or committee member for top conferences and journals such as CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, IJCV, IJCAI, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH ASIA, TOG, TIP, ACM MM, etc.