Zimo Li

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

• University of Michigan, Ann ArborTransferred as a junior
• Nanjing UniversityGPA 4.58/5.0, ranked top 6.7%

Selected coursework3D Robot Perception, Operating Systems, Deep Learning, Probability and Statistics

Research Assistant

Learning And Mining from DatA (LAMDA) Laboratory

• Machine learning and embodied AI research on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) robot foundation models.
• Reproduced Google DeepMind’s Genie on robot video to test whether a self-supervised world model still recovers controllable latent actions when actions are continuous; it does. Implemented it in PyTorch, cross-checked it against an independent JAX version (Jafar), and trained it in a 6-day, 8-GPU RTX 5090 run with PyTorch Distributed Data Parallel (DDP).
• Fine-tuned the π₀ (pi-zero) VLA base model on the LIBERO robotics benchmark.

Core Team Member

University Student AI Association (AIA)

• One of 18 members of the club’s 2025 core team; gave a lecture to members on flow matching.

Software Engineering Intern

Archermind Technology

• Independently designed, built, and deployed a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) desktop semantic search tool for an open-source operating system project hosted on Gitee; merged into the project’s Sep 2025 release.
• Helped debug a humanoid robot on the physical platform alongside the operating system team.

Project Lead

University Student Innovation Program

• Led a student team building a RAG legal question-answering assistant on large language models (LLMs); against a no-retrieval baseline, the gain from retrieval turned negative as models improved, so recommended retiring it.