๐Ÿ‘‹About Me

I am Zhiyu Zhou (ๅ‘จๅฟ—ๅฎ‡ in Chinese), currently pursuing an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). I received my bachelorโ€™s degree in Software Engineering from Jilin University, where I conducted research under the supervision of Prof. Hongxia Xie.

My research interests lie in robot learning, vision-language-action (VLA) models, and robotic manipulation, with a particular focus on the post-training of robot foundation models. I am especially interested in bridging perception, reasoning, and action to enable more generalizable and robust robotic behaviors.

My long-term goal is to develop general-purpose embodied intelligence that can reliably perceive, reason, and act in the real world.

Email: zhouzhiyu@link.cuhk.edu.hk

๐Ÿ”ฅNews

  • 2026.08: Our work PinpointQA was accepted to ECCV EMR 2026.
  • 2026.02: Our work MindPower was accepted to CVPR 2026.

๐Ÿ“Publications

ECCV EMR 2026
PinpointQA project preview

PinpointQA: A Benchmark for Small Object-Centric Spatial Understanding in Indoor Videos

Zhiyu Zhou, Peilin Liu, Ruoxuan Zhang, Luyang Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Hongxia Xie, Wen-Huang Cheng

ECCV EMR 2026. PinpointQA evaluates small object-centric spatial understanding in indoor videos, spanning target presence, reference grounding, fine-grained description, and structured spatial prediction.

CVPR 2026
MindPower project preview

MindPower: Enabling Theory-of-Mind Reasoning in VLM-based Embodied Agents

Ruoxuan Zhang, Qiyun Zheng, Zhiyu Zhou, Ziqi Liao, Siyu Wu, Jian-Yu Jiang-Lin, Bin Wen, Hongxia Xie, Jianlong Fu, Wen-Huang Cheng

CVPR 2026. MindPower explores Theory-of-Mind reasoning in vision-language-model-based embodied agents, aiming to improve how agents infer intentions, beliefs, and goals during embodied interaction.

๐ŸŽ“Education

The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2026 - 2027.12
Expected

M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence

The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Jilin University Sept. 2022 - Jun. 2026

B.Eng. in Software Engineering

School of Software, Jilin University.

๐ŸงชExperience

Research Intern 2026.05 - 2026.09

PrimeBot

Supervisor: Prof. Hao Dong

Research Assistant 2025.03 - 2026.05

Affective Vision Computing (AVC) Lab, Jilin University

Supervisor: Prof. Hongxia Xie

๐Ÿ†Honors and Awards

Undergraduate Scholarship 2022 - 2026

Jilin University

Awarded during undergraduate study.