He Li  PhD Student TMLR Group / Department of Computer Science Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong, China E-mail: [email protected] [ Google Scholar GitHub ]

Short Bio

I am currently a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), advised by Prof. Bo Han. I also work in close collaboration with Dr. Haoang Chi. My research focuses on advancing artificial intelligence through causality, with specific interests in:

• Causal World Models
• Causal Spatial Intelligence
• Causal Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

Selected Conference

• H. Li, H. Chi, M. Liu, W. Huang, L. Xu, W. Yang.
  Transformer-Based Spatial-Temporal Counterfactual Outcomes Estimation.
  In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025), 2025.
  [PDF] [Code] [BibTeX]

  @inproceedings{li2025transformer,
    title={Transformer-Based Spatial-Temporal Counterfactual Outcomes Estimation},
    author={Li, He and Chi, Haoang and Liu, Mingyu and Huang, Wanrong and Xu, Liyang and Yang, Wenjing},
    booktitle={International Conference on Machine Learning},
    pages={34185--34208},
    year={2025},
    organization={PMLR}
  }
  

• H. Chi, H. Li, W. Yang, F. Liu, L. Lan, X. Ren, T. Liu, B. Han.
  Unveiling causal reasoning in large language models: Reality or mirage?
  In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024), 2024.
  [PDF] [Code] [BibTeX]

  @article{chi2024unveiling,
    title={Unveiling causal reasoning in large language models: Reality or mirage?},
    author={Chi, Haoang and Li, He and Yang, Wenjing and Liu, Feng and Lan, Long and Ren, Xiaoguang and Liu, Tongliang and Han, Bo},
    journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
    volume={37},
    pages={96640--96670},
    year={2024}
  }
  

Selected Journal

• L. Lan, Z. Hu, H. Li, T. Liu, X. Liu.
  C-WOE: Clustering for Out-of-Distribution Detection Learning with Wild Outlier Exposure.
  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE TIP), 2026.
  [PDF] [BibTeX]

  @article{lan2026c,
    title={C-WOE: Clustering for Out-of-Distribution Detection Learning with Wild Outlier Exposure},
    author={Lan, Long and Hu, Zhaohui and Li, He and Liu, Tongliang and Liu, Xinwang},
    journal={IEEE Transactions on Image Processing},
    year={2026},
    publisher={IEEE}
  }
  

Academic Service

• Conference Reviewer: ICML 2026, ICLR 2026.
• Journal Reviewer: TMLR.