Zhengqi Li has received a Google Ph.D. Fellowship for work in machine perception, speech technology, and computer vision. Li is advised by associate professor Noah Snavely.
Google created the PhD Fellowship Program in 2009 to recognize and support outstanding graduate students who seek to influence the future of technology by pursuing exceptional research in computer science and related fields. Now in its twelfth year, these Fellowships have helped support approximately 500 graduate students globally in North America and Europe, Africa, Australia, East Asia, and India.
Li is also the recipient of the CVPR 2019 Best Paper Hornorable Mention Award and a 2020 Adobe Research Fellowship Award (one of ten such awards worldwide). Li notes that his research interest range from 3D computer vision to inverse graphics to computational photography. Research on "Crowdsampling the Plenoptic Function" is accepted for presentation at ECCV 2020; for this project, Li collaborated with Abe Davis, Noah Snavely, and Wenqi Xian.