Undergraduate Student and Researcher

Jiayin Zou 邹迦音

Zhili College, Tsinghua University

Undergraduate researcher interested in multimodal learning, embodied intelligence, and vision-language-action models.

Beijing, China

About

Hi, I am Jiayin Zou, an undergraduate student at Zhili College, Tsinghua University, majoring in Information and Computing Science.

My research interests lie at the intersection of multimodal learning and embodied intelligence, particularly vision-language and vision-language-action models, robot learning, computer vision, and human-robot interaction. I am interested in developing intelligent agents that can understand people and their surroundings and collaborate with them reliably in real-world environments.

Research Interests

Embodied Intelligence
Multimodal Learning
Vision-Language Models
Vision-Language-Action Models
Robot Learning
Computer Vision
Human-Robot Interaction

Selected Work

X-VLA: Soft-Prompted Transformer as Scalable Cross-Embodiment Vision-Language-Action Model

ICLR 2026, Poster

Jinliang Zheng, Jianxiong Li, Zhihao Wang, Dongxiu Liu, Xirui Kang, Yuchun Feng, Yinan Zheng, Jiayin Zou, Yilun Chen, Jia Zeng, Ya-Qin Zhang, Jiangmiao Pang, Jingjing Liu, Tai Wang, and Xianyuan Zhan.

X-VLA is a scalable vision-language-action model designed to learn from heterogeneous data collected across different robotic embodiments. It introduces embodiment-specific learnable soft prompts into a unified Transformer architecture, enabling the model to exploit shared knowledge while preserving embodiment-specific characteristics.

Contribution: Contributed to simulation experiments and real-robot data collection.

Education

Tsinghua University

B.S. Candidate in Information and Computing Science
Zhili College

September 2023 – Present

Selected coursework: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical Analysis, Advanced Linear Algebra, Probability Theory, Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Programming, Discrete Mathematics, Abstract Algebra, Data Structures, Software Engineering, and Computer Networks.

The Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course grade was A+.

Selected Honors and Awards

Shuping Scholarship, three consecutive years
Tsinghua University Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship
Tsinghua University Athletic Excellence Scholarship
China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Team Leader, Provincial Second Prize
China International College Students’ Innovation Competition, Shanghai Bronze Award
Zhili College AI Agent Competition, Team Leader, Second Prize and Creativity Award

Contact

I am interested in multimodal learning, embodied intelligence, robot learning, and human-centered intelligent systems.

The preferred contact method is email: zoujy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn