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 Multimodal Spatial Understanding, Multimodal Learning & Generation, and Embodied AI.

Before UW, I was very lucky to collaborate with Prof. Zhaopeng Cui's research group at State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG at Zhejiang University.

My full name is pronounced as /ziˈdʒʊn tsweɪ/, with the "C" in Cui sounding like “ts”.

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

Email: zijuncui@uw.edu

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News

  • [Sep. 2025] One first co-author paper accepted to NeurIPS 2025 as Oral presentation (0.36% acceptance rate)!
  • [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
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025 (Oral)

    webpage / demo / github / bibtex

    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.

    Education
    2024.09 - Present Pursuing M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, United States.
    Graduate Researcher at NeuroAI Lab, Advisor: Eli Shlizerman.
    2024.02 - 2024.06 Research Intern at State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University.
    Advisor: Zhaopeng Cui.
    2020.09 - 2024.06 B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
    Awards & Honors

  • [Oct. 2021] Academic Excellent Award, Zhejiang University.
  • [Jun. 2021] Excellent Student Cadre, Zhejiang University.
  • [Jun. 2022] Student Leadership Award, Zhejiang University.
  • [Oct. 2022] Excellent Student Leadership Award, Zhejiang University.
  • Thanks to Jon Barron for providing this template.