Hi!

I am a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of UC San Diego. I am currently working in Existential Robotics Lab under the supervision of Prof. Nikolay Atanasov. My research interest is broad and multidisplinary. Currently, I focus on perception and mapping. Before this, I also explored other research topics like path planning, large language model. Yeap! I am a fan of intelligent systems like robots!

Prior to my studies at UC San Diego, I received my B.S. degree in the Physics Department of Fudan University. During my undergraduate, I did research mainly in two areas, design and implementation of experiment systems for physics and SoC (System-on-Chip) software development. I like to share ideas and experiences with others. Please feel free to explore this website and reach out to me if you like to discuss with me.

Research

• Optimal Scene Graph Planning with Large Language Model Guidance
  Zhirui Dai, Arash Asgharivaskasi, Thai Duong, Shusen Lin, Maria-Elizabeth Tzes, George Pappas, Nikolay Atanasov
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024 [Link] [Project Page]

• BEV-Net: Assessing Social Distancing Compliance by Joint People Localization and Geometric Reasoning
  Zhirui Dai, Yuepeng Jiang, Yi Li, Bo Liu, Antoni B. Chan, Nuno Vasconcelos
  IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021 [Link]