Yi Zili is currently an Associate Professor, Gusu Youth Professor, and doctoral supervisor at the School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University. He is also affiliated with the Research Center for Visual Computing and Intelligent Perception. His primary research interests include high-quality visual content generation, intelligent image/video editing, image/video quality assessment, font recognition and generation, home decoration/architectural image editing, and multimodal controllable generation. He has published over thirty 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.