Yi is a research scientist at Adobe. Yi received her PhD from the University of Southern California under the supervision of Dr. Hao Li and her Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University under the supervision of Dr. Shuangjiu Xiao. Her research focuses on 3D learning and 3D vision, especially on creating digital humans and autonomous virtual avatars. Her works mainly lie in 3D human modeling, reconstruction, motion synthesis and simulation.