Yingshu Li
Logo PhD Student at The University of Sydney

I'm Yingshu Li (李英舒), a final-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sydney, supervised by Prof. Luping Zhou. During my PhD, I have also been fortunate to receive mentorship from Prof. Lei Wang and Prof. Lingqiao Liu. My research centres on multi-modal large language models (MLLMs), computer vision, and medical imaging analysis — in particular radiology report generation and large multimodal embedding models — with work published at CVPR, AAAI, ECCV, ACM MM, MICCAI, IEEE TMI, MedIA, and Meta-Radiology. Prior to my PhD, I received my Master’s degree from the University of Sydney.

Alongside my academic work, I interned at TikTok (Trust & Safety), building scalable LLM training frameworks and training MLLM-based embedding models for large-scale video content governance. I am currently on the job market for Applied Scientist, Research Scientist, and Machine Learning Engineer roles, and am equally open to postdoctoral positions.

Happy to research chats and collabs — feel free to email me!

Education
  • The University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney
    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Ph.D. Student
    Jun. 2023 - present
  • The University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney
    M.S in Electrical and Information Engineering
    Aug. 2020 - Aug. 2022
Experience
  • TikTok
    TikTok
    Machine Learning Engineer Intern
    Nov. 2025 - May 2026
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Research Intern
    Apr. 2023 - Jul. 2023
Honors & Awards
  • University of Sydney International Scholarship (USydIS)
    2023
News
2026
Sep
Our work A Review of Longitudinal Radiology Report Generation: Dataset Composition, Methods, and Performance Evaluation has been accepted at Medical Image Analysis (MedIA).
Jul
Our work IF-Bench: Evaluating Instruction Following in Video Embedding Models via Controlled Preference Flips has been accepted at ACM MM 2026.
Jul
Our work Graph-Supervised Hierarchical Clinical Alignment for Radiology Report Generation with Large Language Models has been accepted at ACM MM 2026.
Jul
Our work Seeing What Matters: Lesion-Aware High-Resolution Patch Discovery and Fusion for Chest X-ray Report Generation has been accepted at ECCV 2026.
Feb
Our work SAT-RRG: LLM-Guided Self-Adaptive Training for Radiology Report Generation with Token-Level Push–Pull Optimization has been accepted at CVPR 2026.
2025
Dec
We will host a workshop at DICTA 2025 — MedAI-CHAS: Challenges, Hallucinations, and Solutions for Advancing Clinical Utility in Medical AI.
Nov
Our work ReFINE: A Reward-Based Framework for Interpretable and Nuanced Evaluation of Radiology Report Generation has been accepted at AAAI 2026.
Oct
Our work A Review of Longitudinal Radiology Report Generation: Dataset Composition, Methods, and Performance Evaluation — the first comprehensive review on longitudinal radiology report generation — has been released on arXiv.
Aug
Our work S-RRG-Bench: Structured Radiology Report Generation with Fine-Grained Evaluation Framework has been accepted at Meta-Radiology.
May
Our work Enhancing Radiology Report Generation via Multi-Phased Supervision has been accepted at IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IF=9.8).
Publications (view all )
A Review of Longitudinal Radiology Report Generation: Dataset Composition, Methods, and Performance Evaluation
Shaoyang Zhou*, Yingshu Li*, Yunyi Liu, Lingqiao Liu, Lei Wang, Luping Zhou (* equal contribution)
Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) 2026
IF-Bench: Evaluating Instruction Following in Video Embedding Models via Controlled Preference Flips
Yingshu Li, Zhanyu Wang, Xiaolei Xu, Chen Tang, Shen Wang, Luping Zhou
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2026
Graph-Supervised Hierarchical Clinical Alignment for Radiology Report Generation with Large Language Models
Yingshu Li, Yunyi Liu, Zhanyu Wang, Zailong Chen, Lingqiao Liu, Lei Wang, Luping Zhou
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2026
Seeing What Matters: Lesion-Aware High-Resolution Patch Discovery and Fusion for Chest X-ray Report Generation
Yingshu Li, Yunyi Liu, Zhenghao Chen, Tong Chen, Zailong Chen, Lingqiao Liu, Lei Wang, Luping Zhou
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026
SAT-RRG: LLM-Guided Self-Adaptive Training for Radiology Report Generation with Token-Level Push–Pull Optimization
Yunyi Liu*, Yingshu Li*, Tong Chen, Lingqiao Liu, Lei Wang, Luping Zhou (* equal contribution)
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026
S-RRG-Bench: Structured Radiology Report Generation with Fine-Grained Evaluation Framework
Yingshu Li, Yunyi Liu, Zhanyu Wang, Xinyu Liang, Lingqiao Liu, Lei Wang, Luping Zhou
Meta-Radiology 2025
Enhancing Radiology Report Generation via Multi-Phased Supervision
Zailong Chen, Yingshu Li, Zhanyu Wang, Peng Gao, Johan Barthelemy, Luping Zhou, Lei Wang
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE-TMI) 2025
ReFINE: A Reward-Based Framework for Interpretable and Nuanced Evaluation of Radiology Report Generation
Yunyi Liu, Yingshu Li, Zhanyu Wang, Lei Wang, Lingqiao Liu, Luping Zhou
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2026
MRScore: Evaluating Radiology Report Generation with LLM-based Reward System
Yunyi Liu, Yingshu Li, Zhanyu Wang, Lei Wang, Lingqiao Liu, Luping Zhou
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2024 Early Accept
KARGEN: Knowledge-Enhanced Automated Radiology report generation using large language models
Yingshu Li, Zhanyu Wang, Yunyi Liu, Lei Wang, Lingqiao Liu, Luping Zhou
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2024 Early Accept
A Systematic Evaluation of GPT-4V‘s Multimodal Capability for Medical Image Analysis
Yunyi Liu*, Yingshu Li*, Zhanyu Wang*, Xinyu Liang, Lingqiao Liu, Lei Wang, Leyang Cui, Zhaopeng Tu, Longyue Wang, Luping Zhou (* equal contribution)
Meta-Radiology 2024
Competitions
Kaggle: CommonLit - Evaluate Student Summaries
Automatically assess summaries written by students in grades 3-12
silver medal (89/2064)
2023
Kaggle: Benetech - Making Graphs Accessible
Use ML to create tabular data from graphs
bronze medal (99/608)
2023
Kaggle: Stable Diffusion - Image to Prompts
Deduce the prompts that generated our "highly detailed, sharp focus, illustration, 3d renders of majestic, epic" images
bronze medal (73/1231)
2023
Kaggle: Feedback Prize - English Language Learning
Evaluating language knowledge of ELL students from grades 8-12
silver medal (30/2654)
2022
Services
Conference Review
CVPR, NeurIPS, ECCV, ICCV, MICCAI
Journal Review
IEEE TMI, IEEE JBHI, MedIA, Meta-Radiology
Teaching Assistant
ELEC5307 Advanced Signal Processing with Deep Learning
2023-2024 Fall
ELEC5307 Advanced Signal Processing with Deep Learning
2024-2025 Fall
ELEC5304 Intelligent Visual Signal Understanding
2025-2026 Spring