Sifan Zhou
I am a final-year Ph.D. Student at Southeast University (SEU). Besides, I am also a Visiting student at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) AIR Lab, advised by Prof. Sebastian Scherer and Prof. Wenshan Wang. I am currently collaborating with Shibo Zhao and Yuheng Qiu at CMU RI. I have close collaborations with Prof. Xingxing Zuo at MBZUAI, Prof. Chen Wang at Buffalo University, and Prof. Yuzhang Shang at University of Central Florida (UCF). I greatly enjoyed my previous internship at Meituan Vision Intelligence Department, where I focused on 3D visual perception. During this internship, I was supervised by Xiangxiang Chu and Zhi Tian, and I also received valuable guidance from Xinyu Zhang, Liang Li and Bo Zhang. After this, I was fortunate to intern at Houmo.AI, concentrating on efficient AI, under the supervision of Zhihang Yuan. Before Ph.D., I worked as research assistants at Fudan University under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Yin Chiang. I earned my Master of Robotics from Northeastern University in 2021, advised by Prof. Zheng Fang. Outside of research, I enjoy fitness and music. My biggest hobbies are going to the gym and attending music festivals～
My research interests focus on Efficient AI (model compression/quantization for LLMs/MLLMs), Spatial AI (learning-based multi-sensor [LiDAR/Camera/IMU] perception for robotics), and Embodied AI (VLA/VLN for robotics). Feel free to contact me if you are interested in my research and want to discuss relevant research topic or potential collaborations!
My long-term research vision is to enable natural interaction and seamless collaboration between robots and humans in open environments by accurately understanding/reasoning robot states, surrounding 3D scenes, and action execution.
I am on the job market and actively seeking full-time research scientist/engineer opportunities starting in 2026.
news
| Feb 21, 2026 | Yo’City has been accepted to CVPR 2026. Congratulations, Keyang!   |
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| Jan 31, 2026 | GSRender has been accepted to ICRA 2026. Congratulations, Qianpu! |
| Jan 26, 2026 | UniF$^2$ace has been accepted to ICLR 2026. Congratulations, junzhe! |
| Nov 15, 2025 | SuperOdometryV2 has been accepted to Science Robotics. This is my first submission to a Science sub-journal-—accepted on the first try. |
selected publications
- CVPR 2026Yo’City: Personalized and Boundless 3D Realistic City Scene Generation via Self-Critic ExpansionarXiv preprint arXiv:2511.18734, 2026
- ICLR 2026UniF^2ace: A Unified Fine-grained Face Understanding and Generation ModelIn The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026
- AAAI (Oral)CompTrack: Information Bottleneck-Guided Low-Rank Dynamic Token Compression for Point Cloud TrackingIn The Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Oral), 2026
- CVPR 2025Pillarhist: A quantization-aware pillar feature encoder based on height-aware histogramIn Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, 2025
- NeurIPS 2025Point4Bit: Post Training 4-bit Quantization for Point Cloud 3D DetectionIn The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
- ICLR 2025MambaQuant: Quantizing the Mamba Family with Variance Aligned Rotation MethodsIn The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025
- ICLR 2024LiDAR-PTQ: Post-Training Quantization for Point Cloud 3D Object DetectionIn International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
honors and awards
| Jan, 2026 | AAAI 2026 Student Travel Award |
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| May, 2025 | ICRA 2025 Student Travel Award |
| Jun, 2024 | NeurIPS 2024 Top-Reviewer. |
| Mar, 2024 | ICLR 2024 Student Travel Award |
| Jul, 2021 | Outstanding Master’s Graduate & Thesis (Top 1%) |
| May, 2017 | China Telecom Scholarship (Top 1%) |
| Oct, 2016 | National Scholarship (Top 1%) |
| Oct, 2015 | National Scholarship (Top 1%) |