This is Kaiwen Zhou, a second-year Ph.D student at the University of California, Santa Cruz working with Prof. Xin (Eric) Wang. I recieved my bachelor degree in statistics from Zhejiang University.

Research interest

I’m interested in problems on improving the performance and promoting the application of AI, with an emphasis on multi-modal and embodied AI problems.

News

• Our SlugJARVIS team won the third place in first-ever Amazon Alexa SimBot challenge! (06/2023)
• Our ESC paper is accepted by ICML 2023!(04/2023)
• I will join Honda Research Institute as research intern this spring and summer!(04/2023)
• Our paper FedVLN is accepted by ECCV 2022!(07/2022)
• We are ranking No.1 in Alexa Prize SimBot Public Benchmark Challenge!(04/2022)
• I will join Samsung AI center as research intern this summer!(04/2022)

Publication

ESC: Exploration with Soft Commonsense Constraints for Zero-shot Object Navigation
Kaiwen Zhou, Kaizhi Zheng, Connor Pryor, Yilin Shen, Hongxia Jin, Lise Getoor, Xin Eric Wang
ICML 2023
[Paper] [Website]

FedVLN: Privacy-preserving Federated Vision-and-Language Navigation
Kaiwen Zhou, Xin Eric Wang
ECCV 2022
[Paper] [Source]

JARVIS: A Neuro-Symbolic Commonsense Reasoning Framework for Conversational Embodied Agents
Kaizhi Zheng, Kaiwen Zhou, Jing Gu, Yue Fan, Jialu Wang, Zonglin Li, Xuehai He, Xin Eric Wang
Arxiv
[Paper]

Navigation as the Attacker Wishes? Towards Building Byzantine-Robust Embodied Agents under Federated Learning
Yunchao Zhang, Zonglin Di, Kaiwen Zhou, Cihang Xie, Xin Eric Wang
Arxiv
[Paper]

Honors & Awards

1. Outstanding graduate in Zhejiang University. 2021

Others

I like working out and singing after work, which I’ve been done for a long time. I also like hiking and traveling.