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About Me

Hi, I am Zhixu Li, a second-year Ph.D. student advised by Brilliant Prof. Jiachen Li at UC Riverside. Before that, I was advised by Prof. Qian Zhang. My current research interests focus on safety-oriented imitation learning (particularly diffusion policies) and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. My long-term goal is to develop trustworthy embedded AI systems that provide safety guarantees for real-world applications.

News

Jan 2025 Selected to serve as a reviewer for RA-L'25.

Nov 2024 Selected to serve as a reviewer for ICLR'25.

Nov 2024 Selected to serve as a reviewer for ICRA'25.

Jun-Jul 2024 Selected to serve as a reviewer for NeurIPS'24.

Apr 2024 I joined Prof. Jiachen's TASL lab\(^o^)/~.

Jul 2023-Apr 2024 Selected to serve in ASPLOS'24 Artifact Evaluation Committee and received an Excellent Service certificate in all three cycles.

Sep 2023 Received UCR Dean's Distinguished Fellowship

Sep 2023 Started my new journey as a Ph.D. student at UCR.

Jun 2023 Selected to serve in 24th ChinaSys Workshop (ChinaSys 2023 Posters) Program Committee.

Education Experience

Sep 2023-Present University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, US

PhD student

Sep 2022-Jun 2023 University of California Riverside Extension, Riverside, CA

Graduate Preparation Program in Engineering (GPP-E)

Teaching Experience

Jan-Mar 2025 UCR, CSE

TA for CS142 and CS178B

Oct-Dec 2024 UCR, CSE

TA for CS111

Jun-Aug 2024 UCR, CSE

TA for CS111

Jan-Apr 2023 UCR, CSE

Reader for CS142

Apr-Jun 2023 UCR, CSE

Reader for CS260