Peizhen Li

Ph.D. Candidate

School of Computing

Macquarie University

Email: peizhen.li1@hdr.mq.edu.au

Google Scholar / Github / CV

Current Research Topics

Realistic Humanoid Facial Expression Imitation
Nuanced Humanoid Facial Expression Generation
Affective Human-Robot Interaction System

I am a PhD candidate at the School of Computing of Macquarie University, advised by Longbing Cao. My research focuses on humanoid facial expression imitation and generation, as well as how humanoid robots can communicate affectively with humans. Before joining Macquarie, I earned both my master's and bachelor's degrees from Sun Yat-sen University and gained 3 years of experience as an Senior Game Development Engineer at NetEase Games.

Honors & Awards 🏆

Google PhD Fellowship, 2024
International Macquarie Research Excellence Scholarship, 2023-2026
Outstanding Master Graduate, Sun Yat-sen University, 2020
National Scholarship for Postgraduates, Sun Yat-sen University, 2018, 2019
National Encouragement Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University, 2015, 2016
Sun Hung Kai Properties Kwok Foundation Sun Yat-sen University Encouragement Scholarship, 2014
First Prize of Excellent Student Scholarship, Sun Yatsen University, 2014, 2015, 2016

Selected Publications 📖

	UGotMe: An Embodied System for Affective Human-Robot Interaction Peizhen Li, Longbing Cao, Xiao-Ming Wu, Xiaohan Yu, Runze Yang ICRA 2025 Paper / Website
	EdMot: An Edge Enhancement Approach for Motif-aware Community Detection Peizhen Li, Ling Huang, Chang-Dong Wang, Jian-Huang Lai KDD 2019 Oral Presentation Paper / Code
	Community Detection by Motif-Aware Label Propagation Peizhen Li, Ling Huang, Chang-Dong Wang, Jian-Huang Lai, Dong Huang TKDD 2020 Paper / Code
	Brain network analysis for auditory disease: A twofold study Peizhen Li, Ling Huang, Chang-Dong Wang, Chuan Li, Jian-Huang Lai Neurocomputing 2019 Paper
	Community Detection Using Attribute Homogenous Motif Peizhen Li, Ling Huang, Chang-Dong Wang, Dong Huang, Jian-Huang Lai IEEE Access 2018 Paper
	Higher-Order Brain Network Analysis for Auditory Disease Peizhen Li, Yue-Xin Cai, Chang-Dong Wang, Mao-Jin Liang, Yi-Qing Zheng Neural Processing Letters 2018 Paper
	Discriminative metric learning for multi-view graph partitioning Juan-Hui Li, Chang-Dong Wang, Peizhen Li, Jian-Huang Lai Pattern Recognition 2018 Paper

Teaching 🧑‍🎓

Guest Lecture on DeepDream and Neural Style Transfer (Slides), School of Computing, Macquarie University, 2024
Teaching Assistant for Advanced Mathematics, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, 2019
Teaching Assistant for Data Mining, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, 2018

Experience 💼

Game Development Engineer (Diablo Immortal, ZOZ), Netease Games, 2020-2023
Algorithm Engineer intern, WeBank, 2019
Machine Learning Project intern, Netease Games, 2019

Education 🏛️

	Macquarie University 2023 - Present, Sydney, Australia Ph.D. in Computer Science Advisor: Prof. Longbing Cao
	Sun Yat-sen University 2017 - 2020, Guangzhou, China M.Eng. in Computer Science Advisor: Prof. Chang-Dong Wang
	Sun Yat-sen University 2013 - 2017, Guangzhou, China B.Eng. in Software Engineering Advisor: Prof. Chang-Dong Wang