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Jiayi Liu (刘嘉怡)

Ph.D. Student @ HKUST(GZ)

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About Me

I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student in Artificial Intelligence at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), supervised by Prof. Junwei Liang. My research interests include Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, specifically focusing on pedestrian motion and social navigation.

Previously, I earned the B.Sc. degree in Applied Statistics from Central University of Finance and Economics in 2020, and the M.Sc. in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning from University College London in 2021, supervised by Prof. Ingemar J. Cox. Subsequently, I worked as a researcher at Tencent, developing deep learning solutions for virtual human.

News
  • [2025.05] [New!] we announce AGNOSTOS, a novel simulation benchmark designed to assess zero-shot generalization alongside a new VLA method, further supporting advancements in general-purpose robotic manipulation.
Selected Publications

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Robotics
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Exploring the Limits of Vision-Language-Action Manipulations in Cross-task Generalization

Jiaming Zhou, Ke Ye, Jiayi Liu, Teli Ma, Zifan Wang, Ronghe Qiu, Kun-yu Lin, Zhilin Zhao, Junwei Liang.

1) Novel simulation benchmark designed to assess zero-shot, cross-task generalization!

2) New VLA method to push the boundaries!

Arxiv preprint, 2025.

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Selected Experiences
Tencent
Shenzhen, China
Mar. 2022 - Oct. 2022
Research Full-time
Tencent
Shenzhen, China
July 2021 - Feb. 2022
Research Intern
The London School of Economics and Political Science
London, U.K.
July. 2019 - Sep. 2019
Visiting student
Selected Awards

Best Novice of Tencent

2022

Dean’s List with Distinction of UCL

2021

First-class Honor of CUFE

2020

Scholarship for Outstanding Project of CUFE

2018, 2019

Merit Winner (Top 10%) of COMAP

2018
Interest

A dedicated hiking lover. A so-so baker. A loyal servant of a blue yummy cat.