Zijun Cui

I am a Master's student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at University of Washington. Currently, I am a member of NeuroAI Lab advised by Prof. Eli Shlizerman. My research interests include Audio-Visual Learning, Spatial Reasoning.

Before UW, I was a research assistant at State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG in College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University, supervised by Prof. Zhaopeng Cui.

I am actively seeking research opportunities. Feel free to email me if you would like to collaborate!

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News

  • [May. 2025] Co-authored a paper submitted to NeurIPS 2025 (under review).
  • [Jan. 2025] Joined the NeuroAI Lab at UW, working with Prof. Eli Shlizerman on audio-visual research.
  • [Sep. 2024] Join ECE department at University of Washington, Seattle, as a master student.
  • [Jun. 2024] Received Bachelor of Engineering degree from Zhejiang University.
  • Research
    SAVVY: Spatial Awareness via Audio-Visual LLMs through Seeing and Hearing
    Mingfei Chen*, Zijun Cui*, Xiulong Liu*, Jinlin Xiang, Caleb Zheng, Jingyuan Li, Eli Shlizerman
    Under review at NeurIPS 2025.
    webpage / demo / github / code

    We introduce SAVVY-Bench, the first benchmark for 3D spatial reasoning in dynamic audio-visual scenes. We also propose SAVVY, a novel training-free pipeline integrating egocentric spatial tracks and dynamic global maps, which significantly enhances AV-LLM performance for improved audio-visual spatial awareness in such environments.

    PC-Planner: Physics-Constrained Self-Supervised Learning for Robust Neural Motion Planning

    We propose PC-Planner, a physics-constrained self-supervised learning framework for robot motion planning in complex 3D environments. By introducing physical constraints and a novel shape-aware distance field (SADF), PC-Planner enables robust and efficient neural planning for robots with various shapes. Experiments in diverse settings show significant gains in success rate and planning time, outperforming classical and learning-based baselines.

    Services

  • Student Organizer for: Aesthetic Education Center, Zhejiang University (Dec. 2022 - Jul. 2024).
  • Admin for: Class of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University (Sep. 2020 - Jul. 2021).
  • Assistant for: Student Union, College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University (Sep. 2020 - Jul. 2021)
  • Awards & Honors

  • [Oct. 2021] Academic Excellent Award, Zhejiang University.
  • [Jun. 2021] Excellent Student Cadre, Zhejiang University.
  • [Oct. 2022] Excellent Student Leadership Award, Zhejiang University.
  • [Jun. 2022] Student Leadership Award, Zhejiang University.