Yi Zili is currently an Associate Professor, Gusu Youth Professor, and doctoral supervisor at the School of Intelligent Science and Technology, Nanjing University. He is also affiliated with the Research Center for Visual Computing and Intelligent Perception. His research focuses on three key areas: (1) high-fidelity visual content generation, (2) multimodal intelligent agents, and (3) world model representation and learning. He has published over forty papers in top-tier conferences and journals such as CVPR, ICCV, TIP, AAAI, ACM MM, and others in the fields of computer vision and multimedia. According to Google Scholar, his publications have been cited over 3000 times as of April 2024. 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.