I am a second-year PhD student at the GrUVi Lab at Simon Fraser University, advised by Prof. Xue Bin (Jason) Peng. My research interests are in physics-based character animation, robotics, and RL. Previously, I received a B.A.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, where I was fortunate to complete my undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Prof. Tim Barfoot.

Research

Prepared for the Worst: Resilience Analysis of the ICP Algorithm via Learning-Based Worst-Case Adversarial Attacks
Ziyu Zhang, Johann Laconte, Daniil Lisus, Timothy D. Barfoot
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
[ArXiv]

Pointing the Way: Refining Radar-Lidar Localization Using Learned ICP Weights
Daniil Lisus, Johann Laconte, Keenan Burnett, Ziyu Zhang, Timothy D. Barfoot
Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV), 2025
[ArXiv] [Code]

Method and a System for Generating Training Data for Training a Motion Planner
Elmahgiubi, M., Zhang, Z., Rezaee, K
Patent filing since 2023