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Research Interests : Computer Graphics, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Geometric Modelling and Processing, Collaborative Virtual Environments, Visual Aesthetics, Educational Technologies.

Member of : Centre for Vision and Visual Cognition, Vision, Imaging and Visualisation in Durham (VIViD) and Artificial Intelligence and Human Systems Group (AIHS).

Research Publications : My Google Scholar Profile
Research Outputs on Durham Research Online (DRO)

Frederick Li received both a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Computing Studies and a Master of Philosophy from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Graphics from City University of Hong Kong. He is currently an Associate Professor at University of Durham. Prior to the current appointment, he was an Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 2003 to 2006, and had been the project manger of a Hong Kong Government Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) funded project.

Frederick Li is currently an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Education (Digital Education) and an Editorial Board Member of Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware. He has served as an Associate Editor of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies and a Guest Editor of three of its special issues. He has also served as a Conference Co-chair of ICWL 2022, Program Co-chair of ISVC 2021, ICWL 2015/2013/2008/2007 and IDET 2008-2009. In addition, he has served as a a Poster & Demo Track Co-Chair of EDM 2022, a Workshop Co-chair of ICWL 2009 and U-Media 2009, a Publicity Co-Chair of ACM MTDL 2010 and U-Media 2010, and a Local Co-Chair of BMVC 2018.

Departmental Duties: Frederick Li is currently the Chair of Board of Examiners for CS Undergraduate Programmes. He has served as Chair of Board of Examiners of both UG Programmes (CS) and PGT Programmes, PGT Programme Director (CS), and Chair of Taught Postgraduate Management Committee (CS and Engineering).

External Appointment: Lead External Examiner for a taught MSc programme in Northumbria University (2022-2026). Member of EPSRC Peer Review College (since 2024).

Recent Achievements:
[Mar 2026]: Our paper “Dynamic Worlds, Dynamic Humans: Generating Virtual Human-Scene Interaction Motion in Dynamic Scenes” received a Best Paper Award from IEEE VR 2026.
[Mar 2026] Our paper “Gaussian-Mixture Latent Flow for Stochastic 3D Human Motion Prediction” is accepted in CVPR 2026.
[Jan 2026] Two AAAI 2026 papers are accepted. One for point cloud compression, and the another one for sparse view guided scene update.
[Jan 2026] Two Pattern Recognition papers are accepted. One for point cloud compression, and the another one for human motion prediction.
[2025] Received a CVPR 2025 Outstanding Reviewer Award.
[2024] Received a BMVC 2024 Outstanding Reviewer Award.