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Ziniu Wu

Postgraduate Researcher
University of Bristol
z.wu (at) bris.ac.uk


👋 Hi there! My name is Ziniu WU. I am a Postgraduate Researcher (PhD Candidate) in Robotics at the University of Bristol and affiliated with the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. I am co-supervised by Dr. Bahadir Kocer and Prof. Arthur Richards. My research focuses on continual learning for dynamical systems to enhance their adaptation and robustness in unstructured and dynamic environments. I am supported by an EPSRC-funded studentship.

Before starting my PhD studies, I have undertaken Research Internships in Robot Learning at the Shanghai AI Laboratory. Prior to that, I received an MSc in Robotics from the University of Bristol, and a BSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Liverpool and Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.

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🤖 Research Interests

Robotics, Machine Intelligence, Robot Learning, Continual Learning, Motion Planning

🗂️ Selected Publications

  1. ArXiv
    Maintaining Plasticity in Reinforcement Learning: A Cost-Aware Framework for Aerial Robot Control in Non-stationary Environments
    Ali Tahir Karasahin, Ziniu Wu, and Basaran Bahadir Kocer*
    ArXiv, 2025.
    ArXiv Code Project Page Video Preprint

  2. ICRA
    AlignBot: Aligning VLM-powered Customized Task Planning with User Reminders Through Fine-Tuning for Household Robots
    Zhaxizhuoma†, Pengan Chen†, Ziniu Wu†, Jiawei Sun, Dong Wang, Peng Zhou, Nieqing Cao, Yan Ding*, Bin Zhao, Xuelong Li
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025.
    ArXiv Code Project Page Video

†: equal contribution. *: corresponding author.

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