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Vision and Autonomy Intelligence Lab

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Oct 23, 2025 Wayne Wu won the 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research at UCLA.
Sep 18, 2025 PPL (Spotlight), Adv-BMT, and AutoVLA were accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
Aug 20, 2025 Honglin He won the Amazon Trainium Fellowship.
Aug 20, 2025 Sicheng Mo won the Amazon AI Fellowship.
Jul 05, 2025 We released code for Urban-Sim, the newest simulator for embodied AI research in urban micromobility.
Jun 25, 2025 X-Fusion and ST-Occ were accepted to ICCV 2025.
Jun 11, 2025 We co-organized Workshop on Populating Empty Cities and Workshop on Real-to-Sim: Bridging the Gap between Neural Rendering and Robot Learning at CVPR 2025.
Jun 11, 2025 Prof. Zhou gave talks at Synthetic Data for Computer Vision Workshop, AVA: Accessbility, Vision, and Autonomy Workshop, 4th Workshop on Uncertainty Quantification for Computer Vision at CVPR 2025.
May 01, 2025 AIM was accepted to ICML 2025.
Apr 05, 2025 Zhenghao Peng won the Dissertation Year Award (DYA) at UCLA.
Mar 25, 2025 Jordan Lin named 2024–2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Finalist.
Feb 26, 2025 Urban-Sim (Highlight), Vid2Sim, and MetaVQA were accepted to CVPR 2025.
Jan 23, 2025 Prof. Zhou won the 2025 ONR Young Investigator Award.
Jun 14, 2024 Zhenghao Peng won the Amazon Fellowship.
Jun 12, 2024 We co-organized Workshop on Populating Empty Cities at CVPR 2024.
Jun 12, 2024 Prof. Zhou gave talks at Workshop on Autonomous Driving (WAD) and Workshop on Robot Visual Perception in Human Crowded Environment at CVPR 2024.
Feb 13, 2024 Prof. Zhou won the NSF CAREER Award.

Selected Publications

  1. NeurIPS Spotlight
    Predictive Preference Learning from Human Interventions
    Haoyuan Cai, Zhenghao Peng, and Bolei Zhou
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
  2. NeurIPS
    Adv-BMT: Bidirectional Motion Transformer for Safety-Critical Traffic Scenario Generation
    Yuxin Liu, Zhenghao Peng, Xuanhao Cui, and Bolei Zhou
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
  3. NeurIPS
    AutoVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Reasoning and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
    Zewei Zhou, Tianhui Cai, Seth Z Zhao, Yun Zhang, Zhiyu Huang, Bolei Zhou, and Jiaqi Ma
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
  4. ICCV
    X-Fusion: Introducing New Modality to Frozen Large Language Models
    Sicheng Mo, Thao Nguyen, Xun Huang, Siddharth Srinivasan Iyer, Yijun Li, Yuchen Liu, Abhishek Tandon, Eli Shechtman, Krishna Kumar Singh, Yong Jae Lee, Bolei Zhou, and Yuheng Li
    In International Conference on Computer Vision, 2025
  5. ICCV
    Occupancy Learning with Spatiotemporal Memory
    Ziyang Leng, Jiawei Yang, Wenlong Yi, and Bolei Zhou
    In International Conference on Computer Vision, 2025
  6. ICML
    AIM: Robot-Gated Interactive Imitation Learning with Adaptive Intervention Mechanism
    Haoyuan Cai, Zhenghao Peng, and Bolei Zhou
    In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025
  7. CVPR Highlight
    Towards Autonomous Micromobility through Scalable Urban Simulation
    Wayne Wu*, Honglin He*, Chaoyuan Zhang, Jack He, Seth Z. Zhao, Ran Gong, Quanyi Li, and Bolei Zhou
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2025
  8. CVPR
    Vid2Sim: Realistic and Interactive Simulation from Video for Urban Navigation
    Ziyang Xie, Zhizheng Liu, Zhenghao Peng, Wayne Wu, and Bolei Zhou
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2025
  9. CVPR
    Embodied Scene Understanding for Vision Language Models via MetaVQA
    Weizhen Wang, Chenda Duan, Zhenghao Peng, Yuxin Liu, and Bolei Zhou
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2025
  10. ICRA
    Data-Efficient Learning from Human Interventions for Mobile Robots
    Zhenghao Peng, Zhizheng Liu, and Bolei Zhou
    In International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2025
  11. ICLR Spotlight
    MetaUrban: An Embodied AI Simulation Platform for Urban Micromobility
    Wayne Wu, Honglin He, Jack He, Yiran Wang, Chenda Duan, Zhizheng Liu, Quanyi Li, and Bolei Zhou
    International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025
  12. ICLR
    Learning to Generate Diverse Pedestrian Movements from Web Videos with Noisy Labels
    Zhizheng Liu, Joe Lin, Wayne Wu, and Bolei Zhou
    International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025
  13. Nature
    Experiment-free Exoskeleton Assistance via Learning in Simulation
    Shuzhen Luo, Menghan Jiang, Sainan Zhang, Junxi Zhu, Shuangyue Yu, Israel Dominguez Silva, Tian Wang, Elliott Rouse, Bolei Zhou, Hyunwoo Yuk, Xianlian Zhou, and Hao Su
    Nature, 2024