I am an incoming Master’s student at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where I will be supervised by Prof. Xinggang Wang and Prof. Wenyu Liu. My research endeavors are based in the Hust Vision Lab, focusing on autonomous driving and open-world recognition.

My research primarily focuses on Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), autonomous driving, and open-vocabulary segmentation. The objective is to advance the perception and understanding capabilities of MLLMs in open-world scenarios, with applications in autonomous driving and dense prediction tasks. My research interests include MLLMs, reinforcement learning, and open-vocabulary segmentation.

🔥 News

• 2025.06:  🔥🔥 We preprint ReCogDrive on arXiv, the first VLA model and framework combining VLM、 Diffusion and RL in autonomous driving.
• 2025.02:  🎉🎉 One paper on open-vocabulary segmentation have been accepted by the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)!

📝 Publications

Arxiv

ReCogDrive: A Reinforced Cognitive Framework for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Yongkang Li⋆, Kaixin Xiong⋆, Xiangyu Guo, Fang Li, Sixu Yan, Gangwei Xu, Lijun Zhou, Long Chen, Haiyang Sun, Bing Wang, Guang Chen, Hangjun Ye, Wenyu Liu, Xinggang Wang (⋆ denotes equal contribution)

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ICVPR 2025

Mask-Adapter: The Devil is in the Masks for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation

Yongkang Li⋆, Tianheng Cheng⋆, Bin Feng, Wenyu Liu, Xinggang Wang (⋆ denotes equal contribution)

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ,2025

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Rank 1st in Open Vocabulary Segmentation on ADE20K-150 with mIoU=38.2

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2025.06, Outstanding Graduate of Huazhong University of Science and Technology
• 2024.09, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Excellence in Learning Scholarship, Science and Technology Innovation Scholarship
• 2024.09, China National Scholarship
• 2024.06, MindSpore Open-Source Outstanding Intern
• 2024.05, Huawei ICT Competition Global Final, Grand Prize
• 2024.05, Ascend Excellent Developer — Best Contribution Award
• 2024.03, Huawei ICT Competition National First Prize
• 2023.11, Ascend AI Innovation Competition, Silver Prize
• 2022.10, WeiPai Seed Cup Champion, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

📖 Education

• 2025.09 - Now, Master’s degree, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, supervised by Prof. Xinggang Wang and Prof. Wenyu Liu
• 2021.09 - 2025.06, Bachelor, Communication and Information Engineering for Exemplary Engineer Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

💻 Internships

• 2024.12 - Now, Research Intern, Xiaomi EV, China.
• 2024.1 - 2024.06, Research Intern (Remote), Mindspore, China.