CV
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Basics
| Name | Beichen Li |
| Label | PhD Student |
| beichen@mit.edu | |
| Url | https://people.csail.mit.edu/beichen |
| Summary | A final-year PhD student at MIT CSAIL, conducting research on procedural material modeling and computational design workflows for scientific discovery. |
Education
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2018.08 - Present Cambridge, MA, USA
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2014.09 - 2018.07 Beijing, China
Experience
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2023.05 - 2023.08 Research Intern
3D Graphics Group, Adobe Research
RL fine-tuning for image-conditioned procedural material generation
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2020.05 - 2020.08 Research Intern
3D & Immersive Group, Adobe Research
Developing a generative model for procedural material graphs
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2018.08 - Present Research Assistant
Computational Design and Fabrication Group, MIT CSAIL
Procedural material modeling; computational discovery of microstructured composites
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2017.09 - 2018.05 Ungraduate Research Assistant
Graphics & Geometric Computing Group, Tsinghua University
Multi-sensor robotic SLAM; 3D panorama reconstruction and stitching from robotic RGB-D scans
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2017.06 - 2017.09 Research Intern
Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Implementing the adjoint method for robotic shape optimization
Awards
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2022.08.16
Ernst A. Guillemin Master's Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making
MIT EECS Department
For proposing a computational pipeline where microstructures with optimal stiffness and toughness trade-offs are automatically discovered and analyzed for intrinsic toughening mechanisms.
Skills
| Coding | |
| Python (PyTorch, Hugging Face) | |
| C++ (OpenMP, CUDA) | |
| MATLAB | |
| HTML/CSS | |
| LaTeX |
| Software | |
| Adobe Illustrator | |
| Adobe Premiere Pro | |
| Adobe Substance 3D Designer | |
| Blender |
Languages
| Chinese | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Professional working proficiency |