About
Dr. Pengyuan Li is a Research Staff Member from MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, based in San Jose, California. He is the lead developer of the Granite Vision Models, a large vision model for visual document understanding. Previously, he served as the Data Acquisition Lead and collected more than 10PB data for building Large Language, Code, and Multimodal Models at IBM Research.
Pengyuan’s research focuses on machine learning, multimodal data mining, document analysis, and biomedical informatics. He has served as a visiting scholar at UCLA, UBC, JHU, and Tongji University, collaborating with researchers around the world to explore innovative, cross-disciplinary ideas. He is also an Adjunct Faculty member at the Data Science Institute, University of Delaware.
News
- 07/2025: Our Granite Vision Models yield more than
100K downloads from HuggingFace
- 06/2025: Pengyuan gave a demo for Granite Vision Models at
CVPR2025
- 02/2024: Pengyuan co-organized the
'AI and Biodata' workshop at the 18th Annual International Biocuration Conference
- 02/2024: Pengyuan presented GeneScribe: Leveraging large language models for gene summary generation at the 18th Annual International Biocuration Conference
- 03/2025: Pengyuan published
Large Vision models on behalf of IBM-Research on HuggingFace
- 02/2024: Pengyuan gave a talk at
SILS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 01/2024: Pengyuan gave a talk at
DBMI, Columbia University
- 02/2023: Pengyuan joined the
Data Science Institute @ University of Delaware as an adjunct faculty
- 07/2021: Pengyuan joined the
IBM Almaden Research center as a Research Staff Member
- 04/2021: A paper got accepted to
ISMB/ECCB2021
- 04/2021: Recieved
Frank A. Pehrson Graduate Student Award
from University of Delaware
- 04/2020: Recieved Fellowship from Univeristy of
Delaware
- 09/2019: Had summer intern at
IBM Research – Almaden
- 04/2019: A paper got accepted to
Bioinformatics
- 08/2018: A paper got accepted to
CIKM 2018
- 05/2018: Visited at Robotics and
Control Lab, UBC for the Summer. Worked
with Prof. Abolmaesumi
- 10/2017: A paper got accepted to Bioinformatics
- 09/2017: Recieved Student Travel Grant from
CLEF2017
- 06/2017: A paper got accepted to CLEF2017(Best of Lab
paper)
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