Junnan Li is a Research Director at Salesforce. He joined Salesforce in 2019 as the founding researcher of the Singapore AI research team. In 2024, he co-founded Rhymes.ai as the chief scientist, which was soft-acquired by Salesforce AI Research in 2025. Junnan is an expert in multimodal AI, LLMs, and agentic research. His papers are well-cited and his research is widely-adopted in both industry and academia. In particular, his BLIP-series of papers are among the most top-cited AI papers with over 15k+ citations combined.
TL; DR: We propose a new webly-supervised learning method which achieves state-of-the-art representation learning performance by training on large amounts of freely available noisy web images. Deep neural networks are known to be…
