Hi, my name is Zhizheng Liu (刘知æ£). I am currently a third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Vision and Autonomy Intelligence Lab (VAIL) at UCLA. Before that, I earned my bachelor’s degree from the SJTU-UM Joint Institute and my master’s degree from ETH Zurich.
Throughout my research journey, I have been fortunate to receive invaluable guidance and support, without which I would not be who I am today. I am especially grateful to Prof. Yikang Li, who first introduced me to research, and to my advisor Prof. Bolei Zhou, whose continuous mentorship has been instrumental in shaping my academic path.
I aim to address a fundamental research problem in embodied AI: How to enable general intelligent robots to understand and interact with humans in the physical world?. My current focus is on Human-Centric Urban Simulation for Embodied AI. To this end, my work involves reconstructing real-world pedestrian motion, analyzing and learning from their behaviors, and transferring the knowledge to simulation. I practice slow science, and a list of my publications can be found on my Google Scholar profile.
In my free time, I enjoy running, reading, and gaming. Hope you find my research interesting and feel free to reach out if you want to discuss anything related to my work or just want to chat about science and life!
