Mathew Chenyang Li
Logo M.S. in Data Science

I am an interdisciplinary researcher interested in AIxSecurity, including: 1) Trustworthy & Robust Embodied Models, 2) Harmless & Helpful Multimodal Intelligence, 3) Broad Human-Centric AI Applications. Research Interests

I am actively seeking a Ph.D. position starting in Fall 2027, focusing on AIxSecurity. In Jan 2026, I got a Master of Science in Data Science at the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University. Prior to this, I obtained a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science & Technology at the Sydney Smart Technology College, Northeastern University (China), under the supervision of Prof. Guorui Li.

I am a currently Research Assistant in Institute of Data Science, National University of Singapore , working with Dr. Renyang Liu, under the supervision of Prof. See-Kiong Ng. During my master's degree, I worked closely with Prof. Wenbing Tang and Prof. Yihao Huang, supervised by with Prof. Yang Liu in SPRL Lab at Nanyang Technological University. Previously, I was a Research Assistant at HKUST(GZ), working in PEAK Lab with Prof. Changhao Chen.


Education
  • Nanyang Technological University
    Nanyang Technological University
    M.S. in Data Science
    Aug 2024 - Jan 2026
  • Northeastern University (China)
    Northeastern University (China)
    B.Eng. in Computer Science & Technology
    Sep 2020 - Jun 2024
Honors & Awards
  • Outstanding Graduation Thesis, NEU
    Jul 2024
  • Outstanding Award, Xiaomi AIoT Development Platform Training Camp
    Jul 2023
  • Innovation & Entrepreneurship Scholarship, NEU
    Dec 2022
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant, NEU-SSTC
    Mar 2022, Dec 2022
  • Third-class Scholarship, NEU
    May 2021, Oct 2021, May 2022, May 2023
Experience
  • National University of Singapore
    National University of Singapore
    Research Assistant - Institute of Data Science
    Feb 2026 - Now
  • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
    Research Assistant - PEAK Lab
    Apr 2025 - Oct 2025
  • Nanyang Technological University
    Nanyang Technological University
    Student Researcher - SPRL Lab
    Dec 2024 - Dec 2025
  • Shanghai Lianshang Network Technology (WIFI Master Key)
    Shanghai Lianshang Network Technology (WIFI Master Key)
    Server-side SDE Intern - Fundamental Platform Sector
    Dec 2023 - Mar 2024
  • China Telecom Digital Intelligence Technology (Hunan)
    China Telecom Digital Intelligence Technology (Hunan)
    Back-end SDE Intern - R&D Support Center
    Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
News
2026
🎉🎉🎉One paper has been accepted by ACM MM 2026 (First author)
Jul 12
💪💪💪Join IDS in NUS as an RA, working on AIxSecurity
Feb 23
🎉🎉🎉One paper has been accepted by CVPR 2026 (First author)
Feb 21
🚀🚀🚀Successfully graduate from Nanyang Technological University!
Jan 31
Selected Publications (view all )
AdvNav: Behavior-Guided Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on Vision-Language Navigation
AdvNav: Behavior-Guided Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on Vision-Language Navigation

Chenyang Li, Kaige Li, Zeyu Jiang, Changhao Chen# (# corresponding author)

Accepted by ACM MM 2026

AdvNav: Behavior-Guided Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on Vision-Language Navigation

Chenyang Li, Kaige Li, Zeyu Jiang, Changhao Chen# (# corresponding author)

Accepted by ACM MM 2026

Shedding Light on VLN Robustness: A Black-box Framework for Indoor Lighting-based Adversarial Attack
Shedding Light on VLN Robustness: A Black-box Framework for Indoor Lighting-based Adversarial Attack

Chenyang Li, Wenbing Tang#, Yihao Huang#, Sinong Simon Zhan, Ming Hu, Xiaojun Jia, Yang Liu (# corresponding author)

Accepted by CVPR 2026

Shedding Light on VLN Robustness: A Black-box Framework for Indoor Lighting-based Adversarial Attack

Chenyang Li, Wenbing Tang#, Yihao Huang#, Sinong Simon Zhan, Ming Hu, Xiaojun Jia, Yang Liu (# corresponding author)

Accepted by CVPR 2026

All publications
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