Hello! I am an incoming CS PhD student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, where I will be advised by Abdeslam Boularias. I previously worked closely with Erdem Biyik. I completed my Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, where I worked with Hao Su and Pengtao Xie. I also earned a double major Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from UW-Madison, where I worked with Vikas Singh.

Email: zl1308@rutgers.edu

Educations

Ph.D. in Computer Science
Rutgers University–New Brunswick | 09/2026 - Present
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Intelligent Systems, Robotics & Control)
University of California, San Diego | 09/2023 - 06/2025
B.S. in Computer Science & Mathematics (Double Major)
University of Wisconsin-Madison | 01/2021 - 05/2023

Publications and Preprints

* indicates equal contribution.

	BFN Policy: Visuomotor Policy Learning for Hybrid Action Spaces via Bayesian Flow Networks Zhaoyang Li^, Aleyna Kara^, Abha Jha^, Bo-Ruei Huang, Majid Khadiv, Erdem Biyik Under review.*
	ORIC: Benchmarking Object Recognition in Incongruous Context for Large Vision-Language Models. Zhaoyang Li^, Zhan Ling^, Yuchen Zhou, Litian Gong, Erdem Biyik, Hao Su. IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)* 2026.* Paper Code
	When Should We Prefer State-to-Visual DAgger Over Visual Reinforcement Learning? Tongzhou Mu^, Zhaoyang Li^, Stanislaw Wiktor Strzelecki^, Xiu Yuan, Yunchao Yao, Litian Liang, Aditya Gulati, Hao Su. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2025.* Paper \| Code

Professional Service

Reviewer, AAAI 2025 Workshop on Large Language Models and Generative AI for Health
Reviewer, AAAI

Teaching

Teaching Assistant at UW-Madison - Spring 2023

CS540: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Peer Mentor at UW-Madison - Fall 2022

CS537: Introduction to Operating System