Shiqian Li

About Me

I'm now a Ph.D. student, expecting to graduate in 2027, at School of Artificial Intelligence, Peking University under the supervision of Dr. Yixin-Zhu. My goal is to build intelligent agents that can understand, predict, and interact with the physical world. Always ready to share ideas!

News!

Two papers accepted in ICLR 2026.
Invited talk in AGU 2025
One paper accepted in NeurIPS DB 2025.
One paper accepted in CogSci 2025.
One paper accepted in ICLR 2024.
One paper accepted in ACL 2023.
Receive a NeurIPS 2022 Scholar Award.
One paper accepted in NeurIPS 2022 (Spotlight).
I won The Most Outstanding Students Award of UESTC.

Interests

My research interests include

Video Generation and World Model
Physical Reasoning
AI for Physics

Education

Ph.D. in Intelligent Science and Technology

2022/09–2027/06 (expected)

Peking University, Beijing

Bachelor of Data Science and Big Data Technology

2018/09–2022/06

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu

Resume 简历

Résumés in English and Chinese (PDF).

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Complete papers, links, and media: see Publications on this page.

Blog

I record technical notes, research projects, and life experiences in my blog. I am also running a reading list to facilitate knowledge sharing in the community of intuitive physics. Welcome to contribute!

Publications

Learning Physics-Grounded 4D Dynamics with Neural Gaussian Force Fields

Shiqian Li*, Ruihong Shen*, Junfeng Ni, Chang Pan, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu

ICLR, 2026

[Paper] [Web] [Code] [Video]

Neural Force Field: Few-shot Learning of Generalized Physical Reasoning

Shiqian Li*, Ruihong Shen*, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu

ICLR, 2026

[Paper] [Web] [Code] [Video] [Dataset]

Towards Physics-based Machine Learning Framework of Seismic Wavefield Modeling andfw Full-waveform Inversion

Shiqian Li*, Zhi Li*, Zhancun Mu, Shji Xin, Zhixiang Dai, Kuangdai Leng, Ruihua Zhang, Yixin Zhu, Xiaodong Song

AGU, 2025, Invited talk

GlobalTomo: A Global Dataset for Physics-ML Seismic Wavefield Modeling and FWI

Shiqian Li*, Zhi Li*, Zhancun Mu, Shji Xin, Zhixiang Dai, Kuangdai Leng, Ruihua Zhang, Xiaodong Song, Yixin Zhu

NeurIPS DB, 2025

[Paper] [Web] [Code] [Video] [Dataset]

A Simulation-heuristics Dual-process Model for Intuitive Physics

Shiqian Li*, Yuxi Ma*, Jiajun Yan*, Bo Dai, Yujia Peng, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu

CogSci, 2025

[Paper] [Code] [Video] [Dataset] [Poster]

I-PHYRE: Interactive Physical Reasoning

Shiqian Li, Kewen Wu, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu

ICLR, 2024

[Paper] [Web] [Code] [Video] [Poster] [北大AI院推文]

PersLEARN: Research Training through the Lens of Perspective Cultivation

Yuzhe Shi*, Shiqian Li*, Xinyi Niu*, Qiao Xu*, Jiawen Liu*, Yifan Xu*, Shiyu Gu, Bingru He, Xinyang Li, Xinyu Zhao, Zijian Zhao, Yidong Lyu, Zhen Li, Sijia Liu, Lin Qiu, Jinhao Ji, Lecheng Ruan, Yuxi Ma, Wenjuan Han, Yixin Zhu

ACL, 2023

[Paper] [Video] [Poster] [Supp]