Zekai Li

Zekai Li is a first-year PhD student at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at the University of California, San Diego, where he is advised by Professor Zhijian Liu at Z-Lab. He completed his undergraduate studies with first-class honors at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on efficient deep learning, including dataset distillation and diffusion model acceleration, and he is a co-author of FlashDrive, a framework for accelerating vision-language-action inference in autonomous driving.