Dr. Xiaoyang Li (Rebecca) is a Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Adobe. She was the Release Tech Lead and engineering co-founder of Firefly Mon Repo/Inference SDK, launched as Adobe’s first AI Art Generation Tool: Firefly in April 2023. She was also the creator of the cross-library image augmentation module “Beacon-aug” at Adobe Research.

Before joining Adobe, she completed her Ph.D. at the University of Houston iin 2020, under the guidance of Dr. Badri Roysam, specializing in large-scale medical image processing. She has established a track record of publications in the top-tier journals (Nature Communications, etc.) and AI conferences (CVPR,NIPS, MICCAI, etc.) in Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision. Her diverse professional domain experiences cover creative image generations, medical image processing, self-driving car, and Oil & Gas.

Research interests: Generative AI, Diffusion Model, Image Generation ,Image Augmentation, Segmentation, Pixel Inpainting, Object Detection/Classification, CNN, GANs.

Recent Activities

➤   02/2024, Keynote Speaker, “The Journey of Firefly in Adobe GenAI”, University of Houston, Education Innovation & Technology AI Event [Conference]

➤   09/2023, Reprentitive, Research/GenAI Ambassador, Grace Hopper Celebration, Adobe Booth [Conference]

➤   06/23/2021, Video Chat Representative, CVPR 2021-EXPO, Adobe Virtual Booth [Conference]

➤   02/10/2021, Alumni Career Panel, IEEE ETA KAPPA NU Epsilon Epsilon Chapter [Agenda]

➤   12/4/2020, Phd Thesis Defense: “Annotation-Free Deep Learning of Large-Scale Nuclear Segmentation and Spatial Neighborhood Analysis on Multiplexed Fluorescence Images” [Video]

➤   11/18/2020, “What Next after Ph.D.?”, IEEE EMB Houston Chapter & the UH BRAIN Center, Panelist [Agenda] [Video]