Yifan Li is a PhD student in the Department of Engineering, King’s College London. He has been involved in AI and robotics research for the past five years. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Robotics at King’s College London, where he is fully funded by a four-year PhD scholarship. His research focuses on developing Generative AI-based frameworks for autonomous robotic perception, decision-making, and action.

Before joining King’s, Yifan worked as a Research Assistant at the National Centre for Nuclear Robotics (NCNR) and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL). He holds an MSc in Robotics (Distinction, First-Class) from the University of Bristol, where he ranked in the top 5% of his cohort and received the Best Robotics Project Award. He also earned a BEng in Electronic Information Engineering (First-Class Honours) from Liverpool, where his dissertation was ranked first among all projects.

Yifan has authored or co-authored over five papers in flagship conferences and journals, including ICRA and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM). He also holds certifications in Microsoft Generative AI and Autodesk AutoCAD.

Research Interests

• Generative AI for Robotics
• Robotic Sensing & Perception
• Multimodal Robot Learning
• Human-Robot Interaction

Thesis Title

Generative AI-Driven Perception-Decision-Action Framework for Autonomous Robotics

Supervisor Team

First Supervisor: Professor Yang Gao

Second Supervisor: Dr Matthew Howard

Research Groups

• Centre for Robotics Research (CORE)
• Space Technology for Autonomous & Robotic systems Laboratory (STAR-LAB)