Yin Li

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Associate Professor
Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
Computer Sciences
Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rm 6538, Morgridge Hall

I am a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics and affiliate faculty in the Department of Computer Sciences and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My primary research focus is computer vision. I am also interested in the applications of computer vision and machine learning in digital health.

I am currently a member of the NSF Center CHORUS for resilient cyber-physical systems and the U.S. Army AI Innovations Institute. I am honored to have received the NSF CAREER Award and Google Research Scholar Award. I have served as area chairs for vision and learning conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, and IJCAI). Our papers are recognized with best student paper awards at MobiHealth 2014 and IEEE Face and Gesture 2015, and a best demo nominee at ECCV 2020. Some of our work has been featured in MIT Tech Review, WIRED UK, New Scientist, BBC, and Forbes.

news

Jan 29, 2026 One paper accepted to European Spine Journal (video-based screening of degenerative cervical myelopathy) and one paper accepted to ACM SenSys (edge-cloud adaptive offloading for video analytics).
Jan 20, 2026 Welcome to my new website!
Oct 01, 2025 Journal papers accepted to Machine Vision and Applications & Journal of Perinatology.
Sep 01, 2025 One paper accepted to NeurIPS.
Aug 01, 2025 I am serving as area chairs for CVPR 2026 and ICLR 2026.
Jun 01, 2025 Four papers accepted to ICCV.

selected publications

  1. ECCV
    In the Eye of Beholder: Joint Learning of Gaze and Actions in First Person Video
    Yin Li, Miao Liu, and James M Rehg
    In European conference on computer vision (ECCV), 2018
  2. CVPR Oral
    Dual-stream Multiple Instance Learning Network for Whole Slide Image Classification with Self-supervised Contrastive Learning
    Bin Li, Yin Li*, and Kevin W Eliceiri*
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021
  3. ECCV
    ActionFormer: Localizing Moments of Actions with Transformers
    Chen-Lin Zhang, Jianxin Wu, and Yin Li
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022
  4. CVPR
    Towards 3D Vision with Low-Cost Single-Photon Cameras
    Fangzhou Mu*, Carter Sifferman*, Sacha Jungerman, Yiquan Li, Mark Han, Michael Gleicher, Mohit Gupta, and Yin Li
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
  5. npj Digit. Med.
    Deep Learning to Quantify Care Manipulation Activities in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
    Abrar Majeedi, Ryan M McAdams, Ravneet Kaur, Shubham Gupta, Harpreet Singh, and Yin Li
    npj Digital Medicine, 2024