Sirui Xie

I am a first-year PhD student in Computer Science Department, UCLA, advised by Prof. Song-Chun Zhu. As a member of Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning and Autonomy (VCLA), I am also actively advised by Prof. Ying Nian Wu. I obtained BEng degree in Computer Science from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), advised by Prof. Fangzhen Lin. My current research focuses on learning representation of core cognitive knowledge (e.g. object, geometry, physics) and high-level commonsense concepts (e.g. category, relation, utility) for abstract reasoning and generalized planning. The ultimate goal is to endow embodied agents with a computational framework to develop language from interaction and communication. I draw inspiration broadly from classical AI, cognitive science and computational neuroscience etc. Previously, I studied (Inverse) Reinforcement Learning, Multi-agent System and Neural Architecture Search.