Yizhi Zhou is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University (GMU). He began his visit to the Spatial AI and Robotics (SAIR) Lab in April 2025. His research interests include SLAM, state estimation, multi-robot systems, and control systems.

Experience

Visiting Student
- SAIR Lab, University at Buffalo (UB), USA
- Apr. 2025 - Present

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- George Mason Unversity, USA
- Aug. 2022 - Present
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- UC Riverside, USA
- Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2022
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Automation
- Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
- Sep. 2016 - Jul. 2020

Other Information

Work Email: yzhou26@gmu.edu

Publications

Toward a Telescopic Steerable Robotic Needle for Minimally Invasive Tissue Biopsy.
Boshen Qi, Ziqing Yu, Zahra K. Varnamkhasti, Yizhi Zhou, Jun Sheng.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1989–1996, 2021.
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@article{9361208,
  author = {Qi, Boshen and Yu, Ziqing and Varnamkhasti, Zahra K. and Zhou, Yizhi and Sheng, Jun},
  journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  title = {Toward a Telescopic Steerable Robotic Needle for Minimally Invasive Tissue Biopsy},
  year = {2021},
  volume = {6},
  number = {2},
  pages = {1989-1996},
  keywords = {Electron tubes;Robots;Needles;Tendons;Wires;Connectors;Force;Surgical robotics;steerable catheters/needles;medical robots and systems;tendon/wire mechanism},
  doi = {10.1109/LRA.2021.3061400}
}
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Qi, Boshen and Yu, Ziqing and Varnamkhasti, Zahra K. and Zhou, Yizhi and Sheng, Jun, "Toward a Telescopic Steerable Robotic Needle for Minimally Invasive Tissue Biopsy," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021.
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Distributed Invariant Extended Kalman Filter Using Lie Groups: Algorithm and Experiments.
Jie Xu, Pengxiang Zhu, Yizhi Zhou, Wei Ren.
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 2777–2789, 2023.
```
@article{10232373,
  author = {Xu, Jie and Zhu, Pengxiang and Zhou, Yizhi and Ren, Wei},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology},
  title = {Distributed Invariant Extended Kalman Filter Using Lie Groups: Algorithm and Experiments},
  year = {2023},
  volume = {31},
  number = {6},
  pages = {2777-2789},
  keywords = {Target tracking;Cameras;Kalman filters;Wireless sensor networks;Data integration;Distributed estimation;information fusion;invariant extended Kalman filtering;wireless sensor network},
  doi = {10.1109/TCST.2023.3290299}
}
```
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Xu, Jie and Zhu, Pengxiang and Zhou, Yizhi and Ren, Wei, "Distributed Invariant Extended Kalman Filter Using Lie Groups: Algorithm and Experiments," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2023.
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D3G: Learning Multi-robot Coordination from Demonstrations.
Yizhi Zhou, Wanxin Jin, Xuan Wang.
2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 8898–8904, 2024.
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@inproceedings{10801743,
  author = {Zhou, Yizhi and Jin, Wanxin and Wang, Xuan},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  title = {D3G: Learning Multi-robot Coordination from Demonstrations},
  year = {2024},
  pages = {8898-8904},
  keywords = {Inverse problems;Robot kinematics;Scalability;Heuristic algorithms;Games;Nash equilibrium;Linear programming;Robots;Tuning;Intelligent robots},
  doi = {10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10801743}
}
```
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Zhou, Yizhi and Jin, Wanxin and Wang, Xuan, "D3G: Learning Multi-robot Coordination from Demonstrations," 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024.
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Distributed Estimation for a 3-D Moving Target in Quaternion Space with Unknown Correlation.
Yizhi Zhou, Yufan Liu, Xuan Wang.
2024 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), pp. 394–399, 2024.
```
@inproceedings{10666607,
  author = {Zhou, Yizhi and Liu, Yufan and Wang, Xuan},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
  title = {Distributed Estimation for a 3-D Moving Target in Quaternion Space with Unknown Correlation},
  year = {2024},
  pages = {394-399},
  keywords = {Target tracking;Monte Carlo methods;Correlation;Network topology;Quaternions;Two-dimensional displays;Estimation},
  doi = {10.1109/CCTA60707.2024.10666607}
}
```
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Zhou, Yizhi and Liu, Yufan and Wang, Xuan, "Distributed Estimation for a 3-D Moving Target in Quaternion Space with Unknown Correlation," 2024 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 2024.
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Distributed Multi-Robot Flocking Based on Acoustic Doppler Effect.
Yizhi Zhou, Cameron Nowzari, Xuan Wang.
2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 6406–6411, 2023.
```
@inproceedings{10383675,
  author = {Zhou, Yizhi and Nowzari, Cameron and Wang, Xuan},
  booktitle = {2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
  title = {Distributed Multi-Robot Flocking Based on Acoustic Doppler Effect},
  year = {2023},
  pages = {6406-6411},
  keywords = {Robot kinematics;Scalability;Interference;Frequency measurement;Nonlinear dynamical systems;Large-scale systems;Doppler effect},
  doi = {10.1109/CDC49753.2023.10383675}
}
```
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Zhou, Yizhi and Nowzari, Cameron and Wang, Xuan, "Distributed Multi-Robot Flocking Based on Acoustic Doppler Effect," 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2023.
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Tensor-based dynamic brain functional network for motor imagery classification.
Qizhong Zhang, Bin Guo, Wanzeng Kong, Xugang Xi, Yizhi Zhou, Farong Gao.
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 69, p. 102940, 2021.
```
@article{ZHANG2021102940,
  title = {Tensor-based dynamic brain functional network for motor imagery classification},
  journal = {Biomedical Signal Processing and Control},
  volume = {69},
  pages = {102940},
  year = {2021},
  issn = {1746-8094},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2021.102940},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1746809421005371},
  author = {Zhang, Qizhong and Guo, Bin and Kong, Wanzeng and Xi, Xugang and Zhou, Yizhi and Gao, Farong},
  keywords = {Brain-computer interface, Dynamic brain functional network, Motor imagery, Tensor decomposition}
}
```
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Zhang, Qizhong and Guo, Bin and Kong, Wanzeng and Xi, Xugang and Zhou, Yizhi and Gao, Farong, "Tensor-based dynamic brain functional network for motor imagery classification," Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2021.
```