Leyi Zou
Hola from a freckled girl.
Hi, I’m Leyi (Zelo) Zou, a second-year M.S. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA, currently a research intern at Hilab (advised by Prof Yang Zhang).
My work builds AI-powered multimodal sensing, with a particular focus on human-centered systems. I’ve explored topics ranging from human activity recognition with WiFi CSI signals to VLM-powered assistive robotics for wheelchair users. Recently, I won second place in the indoor radio map prediction competition, MLSP 2025.
Before UCLA, I worked with Prof. Henry Chen (CUHK) and Prof. Zhiguo Shi (ZJU). I graduated with a 3.95/4 GPA and the ZJU First-Class Scholarship (Honors College).
Beyond research, I enjoy movies, reading, travelling and sports — they keep me creatively charged and give me extra insights about the world. I also love animals and might drop fun facts about them you didn’t ask for :P
Feel free to reach me via zelozou [at] ucla [dot] edu. I’d love any fun and insightful idea.
news
| Jan 15, 2026 | My co-author paper ``DeltaDorsal: Enhancing Hand Pose Estimation with Dorsal Features in Egocentric Views” was accepted by ACM CHI 2026 and I will also serve as a student volunteer! (Finally got the chance to test the learning results of Spanish on Duolingo…) See you in Barcelona! 🇪🇸 |
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| Jan 05, 2026 | I am honored to serve as a TA for ECE C147/247 (Nueral Networks and Deep Learning) this quarter. Thanks Prof. Jonathan Kao for this precious opportunity to contribute to my favorite course at UCLA ECE Dept! |
| Sep 02, 2025 | My first-author paper “U-Net Based Indoor Radio Map Prediction under Sparse Sampling” was presented at MLSP 2025 in Istanbul, Türkiye 🇹🇷. |
| May 14, 2025 | We won 2nd place in the Sampling-Assisted Pathloss Radio Map Prediction Data Competition!  |
| Sep 21, 2024 | I joined UCLA as a master student in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. |