About Me
Hi! I am Josh Qixuan Sun, a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, advised by Prof. Mark Crowley.
I received my M.A.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2023, also under his supervision, and my B.Eng. in Software Engineering from Dalian University of Technology in 2021. I have also worked as a research intern at Li Auto and Kisoji Biotech.
Research Interests
Robotics & Robot Learning
Reinforcement & Preference Learning
News
- Our paper LandMarkVLN was accepted to WACV 2027.
- Received the STAR Award (formerly the Faculty of Engineering Award).
- Our paper on preference-based antibody expression ranking was accepted to ICML 2026.
- Received the University of Waterloo’s Graduate Student Research Dissemination Award (GSRDA).
- Passed my Ph.D. comprehensive proposal examination and advanced to Ph.D. candidacy.
- Our RA-L paper VIL will be presented at IROS 2026.
- Our paper VIL was accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
Selected Publications
- arXiv 2026
- arXiv 2026
- WACV 2027Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 2027.
- ICML 2026Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026.
- RA-L 2026IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2026.
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