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Bo Li 李博 · MSCS Student

MSCS Student at UIUC

I work on generative multimodal models, unified multimodal systems, and evaluations for perception and reasoning. My recent research centers on making multimodal models see more faithfully, reason more structurally, and generate with stronger grounding.

Open To
Internships and collaborations. I am broadly interested in many topics, including but not limited to VLMs, agents, evaluation, and related multimodal research directions.
For Junior Students Happy to chat about applications, summer research, and AI ideas.

I received a lot of help during the Fall 2026 application cycle, and I would love to pass that support on. If you are a junior undergraduate student and would like to chat about applications, summer research, life, career planning, or AI-related research ideas, feel free to reach out.

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lib21@m.fudan.edu.cn bol8@Illinois.edu Google Scholar GitHub

News

Selected recent updates.

Biography

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Hi! I'm Bo Li, an incoming MSCS student at UIUC. Previously, I was a research intern at Princeton University advised by Prof. Zhuang Liu. During this internship, I had the privilege of working closely with amazing collaborators, including Yida Yin, Wenhao Chai, and Dr. Xingyu Fu.

Before that, I worked as a research assistant at UNC-Chapel Hill advised by Huaxiu Yao, and at Fudan University advised by Jingjing Chen.

My research interests include, but are not limited to, AI alignment, unified models for multimodal understanding and generation, and benchmarks and evaluation. My pronouns are She/Her/Hers.

Current Princeton University Research intern working on multimodal generation and evaluation.
Home Institution Fudan University Undergraduate student.
Past Research UNC-Chapel Hill and Fudan Research assistant experiences across multimodal and alignment work.

Research

Current selected publications.

UEval

UEval: A Benchmark for Unified Multimodal Generation

Bo Li, Yida Yin, Wenhao Chai, Xingyu Fu*, Zhuang Liu*

ArXiv, January 2026

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Anyprefer

Anyprefer: An Agentic Framework For Preference Data Synthesis

Yiyang Zhou*, Zhaoyang Wang*, Tianle Wang*, Shangyu Xing†, Peng Xia†, Bo Li†, Kaiyuan Zheng†, Zijian Zhang†, Zhaorun Chen, Wenhao Zheng, Xuchao Zhang, Chetan Bansal, Weitong Zhang, Ying Wei, Mohit Bansal, Huaxiu Yao

ICLR 2025

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Awards

Selected honors.

  • 2022
    China National Scholarship, the highest national scholarship for Chinese college students, awarded to roughly 0.2%.
  • 2023, 2024
    Fudan Scholarship University.

Service

Reviewing and teaching experience.

Academic Service

  • 2026
    Reviewer for AAAI 2026, AISI Track.
  • 2026
    Reviewer for ICLR 2026.

Teaching

  • TA
    Assistant for Computer Architecture, Honors Course, responsible for designing course assignments and guiding students in their learning experience and academic performance.

Interests

Small details outside research.

Piano and Guitar

Enjoy playing the piano, and used to play the guitar, though it has been a long time since I last picked it up.

Games

Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero.

Travel

Hope to have the chance to travel around the world.

Visitors