Zhou Lab at UCLA

We are interested in developing efficient and interpretable machine learning methods for computer vision and machine autonomy. The impact areas include but not limited to digital twins, controllable synthetic data generation, human-AI shared autonomy, and human assistive technology and robots.


Current members:
  • Postdoctoral researcher:
    Wayne Wu

  • PhD students:

    Zhenghao Peng (Dissertation Year Awardee, Final-year, hire him!)
    Zhizheng Liu
    Sicheng Mo (Amazon AI PhD Fellowship awardee)
    Haoyuan Cai
    Seth Zhao (co-advised with Prof. Jiaqi Ma)
    Heewon Park (Samsung Fellowship awardee)
    Honglin He
    Ziyang Xie

  • Master students:
    Yuxin Liu
    Weizhen Wang
    Matthew Leng

  • Undergraduate students:
    Joe Lin
    Jack He

Alumni:
  • Graduated PhD students:
    Qihang Zhang (CUHK)
    Yinghao Xu (2019-2023, PhD from CUHK, Postdoc at Stanford)
    Ceyuan Yang (2018-2021, PhD from CUHK, Researcher at Shanghai AI Lab)
    Yujun Shen (2018-2020, PhD from CUHK, Researcher at Ant Group)

  • Graduated Master's students:
    Pierce Chong (2025, now works in Singapore)
    Chenda Duan (2024, now PhD student at UCLA ECE)
    Ben Klingher (2024, now works in Tech)
    Lalit Bhagat (2023, now research scientist at Amazon)
    Jiawei Yang (2023, now PhD student at USC)
    Nilay Shah (2022, previous Master student at UCLA)
    Hao Sun (2019-2022, Mphil student at CUHK, now PhD student at Cambridge)
    Jiankai Sun (2019-2021, Mphil student at CUHK, now PhD student at Stanford)

  • Previous undergraduates and student researchers:
    Jordan Lin (2022-2024, now PhD student at Columbia University)

    Jimmy Wu (2017 visiting student, now PhD student at Princeton)
    Alex Andonian (2018 visiting student, now PhD student at MIT)
    Tete Xiao (2018 visiting student, now PhD student at UC Berkeley)
    Bowen Pan (2018-2019 visiting student, now PhD student at MIT)
    Jinjin Gu (2018-2019 RA, now PhD student at Sydney University)
    Tiga Leung (2018-2020 RA, master study in UK)
    Kaiwen Zha (2019 remote intern, PhD student at MIT)
    Jiapeng Zhu (2018-2019 RA, PhD student at HKUST)
    Shuhan Tan (2019 remote intern, now PhD student at UT Austin)
    Haoyue Bai (2021 RA , now PhD student at UW Madison)
    Zhenghai Xue (2021 RA, now PhD student at NTU)
    Jianyuan Wang (2021 remote RA, now PhD student at Oxford University)
    Yuanqi Du (2021 remote RA, now PhD student at Cornell)
    Zhihan Liu (2021 remote RA, now PhD student at Northwestern)
    Wenjie Mo (2022 undergrad, now works at LA)
    Alexander Swerdlow (2022 undergrad, now graduate student at CMU)
    Lan Feng (2021 remote RA, now PhD student at ETH Zurich)
    Junge Zhang (2023, visiting grad, now PhD student UC Riverside)
    Yinggan Xu (2023, visiting undergrad, now UCLA MSCS)
    Yunsong Zhou (2024, visiting PhD student from SJTU)
    Quanyi Li (2020 - 2024, student researcher)

Sponsors

We are grateful for the generous research award and gift supports from the following sponsors: