Yu (Bryan) Zhou
Email: yuzhou [at] cs [dot] ucla [dot] edu
I am a Computer Science Ph.D. student at UCLA, co-advised by Nanyun Peng and Kai-Wei Chang. I work on Multimodality (Vision + Language) and Embodied Learning. Prior to my PhD, I was a visiting researcher at Stanford SVL, working with Jiajun Wu and Fei-Fei Li.
Publications (Selected)
- Contrastive Visual Data Augmentation
Yu Zhou*, Bingxuan Li*, Mohan Tang*, Xiaomeng Jin, Te-Lin Wu, Kuan-Hao Huang, Heng Ji, Kai-Wei Chang, Nanyun Peng
ICML 2025.
- Embodied Agent Interface: Benchmarking LLMs for Embodied Decision Making
Manling Li*, Shiyu Zhao*, Qineng Wang*, Kangrui Wang*, Yu Zhou* (equal contribution), Sanjana Srivastava, Cem Gokmen, Tony Lee, Li Erran Li, Ruohan Zhang, Weiyu Liu, Percy Liang, Li Fei-Fei, Jiayuan Mao, Jiajun Wu.
NeurIPS 2024. Oral (Top 0.4%)
SoCal NLP 2024. Best Paper Award 🏆
- Localizing Active Objects from Egocentric Vision with Symbolic World Knowledge
Te-Lin Wu*, Yu Zhou* (equal contribution), Nanyun Peng
EMNLP 2023. Oral Presentation
- Non-Sequential Graph Script Induction via Multimedia Grounding
Yu Zhou, Sha Li, Manling Li, Xudong Lin, Shih-Fu Chang, Mohit Bansal, Heng Ji
ACL 2023.
Services
- Honored to co-organize the CVPR 2025 workshop on Foundation Models + Embodied Agents
- Reviewing for NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL
- Volunteer for ACL 2023