Zuntao Liu is a master student at Northeastern University (NEU). He is now an intern at the SAIR Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), University at Buffalo (UB). His research interests include Multimodal LLMs, 3D reconstruction, event-based vision, and robotics.

Education

Master, Robotics Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, Sep. 2023 - Jan. 2026
B.S., Robot Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, Sep. 2019 - Jun. 2023

Experience

Research Intern, University at Buffalo (UB), USA, Jun. 2025 - Present

Other Information

Work Email: lzuntao327@gmail.com

Publications

Spike-EVPR: Deep Spiking Residual Networks with SNN-Tailored Representations for Event-Based Visual Place Recognition.
Zuntao Liu, Yaohui Li, Chenming Hu, Delei Kong, Junjie Jiang, Zheng Fang.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 6959–6966, 2026.
```
@article{liu2026spikevpr,
  author = {Liu, Zuntao and Li, Yaohui and Hu, Chenming and Kong, Delei and Jiang, Junjie and Fang, Zheng},
  title = {Spike-EVPR: Deep Spiking Residual Networks with SNN-Tailored Representations for Event-Based Visual Place Recognition},
  journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)},
  year = {2026},
  volume = {11},
  number = {6},
  pages = {6959-6966},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11479801},
  cover = {https://wynelio.github.io/images/spike-evpr.png}
}
```
```
Liu, Zuntao and Li, Yaohui and Hu, Chenming and Kong, Delei and Jiang, Junjie and Fang, Zheng, "Spike-EVPR: Deep Spiking Residual Networks with SNN-Tailored Representations for Event-Based Visual Place Recognition," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2026.
```
Nonlinear Motion-Guided and Spatio-Temporal Aware Network for Unsupervised Event-Based Optical Flow.
Zuntao Liu, Hao Zhuang, Junjie Jiang, Yuhang Song, Zheng Fang.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 8774–8780, 2025.
```
@inproceedings{liu2025enmstflow,
  author = {Liu, Zuntao and Zhuang, Hao and Jiang, Junjie and Song, Yuhang and Fang, Zheng},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  title = {Nonlinear Motion-Guided and Spatio-Temporal Aware Network for Unsupervised Event-Based Optical Flow},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {8774-8780},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11127947},
  cover = {https://wynelio.github.io/images/E-NMSTFlow.png},
  website = {https://wynelio.github.io/E-NMSTFlow/}
}
```
```
Liu, Zuntao and Zhuang, Hao and Jiang, Junjie and Song, Yuhang and Fang, Zheng, "Nonlinear Motion-Guided and Spatio-Temporal Aware Network for Unsupervised Event-Based Optical Flow," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025.
```
Vision-Language Memory for Spatial Reasoning.
Zuntao Liu, Yi Du, Taimeng Fu, Shaoshu Su, Cherie Ho, Chen Wang.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.20644, 2025.
```
@article{liu2025vlm2,
  title = {Vision-Language Memory for Spatial Reasoning},
  author = {Liu, Zuntao and Du, Yi and Fu, Taimeng and Su, Shaoshu and Ho, Cherie and Wang, Chen},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.20644},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20644},
  website = {https://sairlab.org/vlm2/},
  cover = {/img/posts/2025-11-25-vlm2/vlm2.jpg}
}
```
```
Liu, Zuntao and Du, Yi and Fu, Taimeng and Su, Shaoshu and Ho, Cherie and Wang, Chen, "Vision-Language Memory for Spatial Reasoning," arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.20644, 2025.
```