Biography
Hongyang Li is an Assistant Professor at Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science, University of Hong Kong and has led OpenDriveLab (opendrivelab.com) since 2021. His research focus is on autonomous driving and embodied AI. He led the end-to-end autonomous driving project, UniAD and won the IEEE CVPR 2023 Best Paper Award. UniAD has a large impact both in academia and industry, including the recent rollout to customers by Tesla in FSD V12. He proposed the bird’s-eye-view perception work, BEVFormer, that won Top 100 AI Papers in 2022 and was explicitly recognized by Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA and Prof. Shashua, CEO of Mobileye at public Keynote. He served as Area Chair for CVPR 2023, 2024, 2025, NeurIPS 2023 (Notable AC), 2024, ACM MM 2024, ICLR 2025, referee for Nature Communications, Guest Editor at Automotive Innovations. He will serve as Workshop Chair for CVPR 2026. He is the Working Group Chair for IEEE Standards under Vehicular Technology Society and Senior Member of IEEE.