Yifan Zhou

PhD student, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University

Joined

June 2022

Names

Yifan Zhou (Preferred)

Emails

****@asu.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University (asu.edu)

2021 – 2026

MS student

School of Computer Science, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (cs.cmu.edu)

2019 – 2021

Undergrad student

School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University (swjtu.edu.cn)

2015 – 2019

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Heni Ben Amor

2021 – 2026

Coauthor

Xiao Wu

2016 – 2019

Coauthor

Runhao Jiang

2016 – 2019

Expertise

Language Conditioned Policy Learning

2019 – Present

Imitation Learning

2019 – Present

Robot Manipulation

2019 – Present

Publications

RoboMD: Uncovering Robot Vulnerabilities through Semantic Potential Fields
Som Sagar, Jiafei Duan, Sreevishakh Vasudevan, Yifan Zhou, Heni Ben Amor, Dieter Fox, Ransalu Senanayake
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
From Mystery to Mastery: Failure Diagnosis for Improving Manipulation Policies
Som Sagar, Jiafei Duan, Sreevishakh Vasudevan, Yifan Zhou, Heni Ben Amor, Dieter Fox, Ransalu Senanayake
- OOD Workshop @ RSS2025
- Readers: Everyone
SAS-Prompt: Large Language Models as Numerical Optimizers for Robot Self-Improvement
Heni Ben Amor, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, David B D'Ambrosio, Saminda Wishwajith Abeyruwan, Alex Bewley, Yifan Zhou, Kamalesh Kalirathinam, Swaroop Mishra, Pannag R Sanketi
- ICRA 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Prompted Policy Search: Reinforcement Learning through Linguistic and Numerical Reasoning in LLMs
Yifan Zhou, Sachin Grover, Mohamed El Mistiri, Kamalesh Kalirathinam, Pratyush Kerhalkar, Swaroop Mishra, Neelesh Kumar, Sanket Gaurav, Oya Aran, Heni Ben Amor
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Trustworthy Conceptual Explanations for Neural Networks in Robot Decision-Making
Som Sagar, Aditya Taparia, Harsh Mankodiya, Pranav Bidare, Yifan Zhou, Ransalu Senanayake
- RobotEvaluation@RSS 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Enabling Stateful Behaviors for Diffusion-based Policy Learning
Xiao Liu, Fabian C Weigend, Yifan Zhou, Heni Ben Amor
- ICRA 2024: Back to the Future
- Readers: Everyone
Task Success is not Enough: Investigating the Use of Video-Language Models as Behavior Critics for Catching Undesirable Agent Behaviors
Lin Guan, Yifan Zhou, Denis Liu, Yantian Zha, Heni Ben Amor, Subbarao Kambhampati
- COLM
- Readers: Everyone
"Task Success" is not Enough: Investigating the Use of Video-Language Models as Behavior Critics for Catching Undesirable Agent Behaviors
Lin Guan, Yifan Zhou, Denis Liu, Yantian Zha, Heni Ben Amor, Subbarao Kambhampati
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models : Open X-Embodiment Collaboration
Abby O'Neill, Abdul Rehman, Abhiram Maddukuri, Abhishek Gupta, Abhishek Padalkar, Abraham Lee, Acorn Pooley, Agrim Gupta, Ajay Mandlekar, Ajinkya Jain, Albert Tung, Alex Bewley, Alexander Herzog, Alex Irpan, Alexander Khazatsky, Anant Rai, Anchit Gupta, Andrew Wang, Anikait Singh, Animesh Garg et al. (259 additional authors not shown)
- ICRA 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Enabling Stateful Behaviors for Diffusion-based Policy Learning
Xiao Liu, Fabian Clemens Weigend, Yifan Zhou, Heni Ben Amor
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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