Shiqian Li (李世乾)

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!

• One paper accepted in Science 2026.
• I joined Tencent as a research intern.
• One paper accepted in CogSci 2026.
• 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 joined BIGAI as a research intern.
• 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

Resume 简历

Résumés in English and Chinese (PDF).

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

Blog

Publications

A Sub–10-millisecond Neural Dynamical System Based on Phase-change Memristors

Lei Cai*, Yaoyu Tao*, Chenchen Xie*, Longhao Yan*, Shiqian Li, Ruihong Shen, et al.

Science, 2026

[Paper] [News]

Overhang Tower: Resource-Rational Adaptation in Sequential Physical Planning

Ruihong Shen, Shiqian Li, Yixin Zhu

CogSci, 2026

[Paper] [Code] [Video]

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]

On the Learning Mechanisms in Physical Reasoning

Shiqian Li*, Kewen Wu*, Chi Zhang, Yixin Zhu

NeurIPS, 2022, Spotlight

[Paper] [Web] [Code] [Video] [Poster] [Blog] [VALSE论文速讲] [北大AI院推文] [北大AI院官网] [北大新闻网] [北大科研推文] [北大新工科推文] [BIGAI]

Auto-FERNet: A Facial Expression Recognition Network with Architecture Search

Shiqian Li, W.Li, S.Wen, K.Shi, Y.Yang, P.Zhou, T.Huang

IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), 2021

[Paper] [Code]

Span Identification and Technique Classification of Propaganda in News Articles

W.Li, Shiqian Li, C.Liu, L.Lu, Z.Shi, S.Wen

Complex & Intelligent Systems (Complex Intell. Syst.), 2021

[Paper]

Research Statement

Photography

When I'm not in the lab, I enjoy wandering with my camera and capturing the beauty I stumble upon — here 's a small collection from my travels and daily life.

• Nature
• Animal
• Portrait
• Life

Click any thumbnail to open the full photography gallery.

Contact Me

Email: lishiqian2001@gmail.com