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Zinnia Z. Nie

CSE Master's student at the University of Michigan.

Email: zznie [at] umich [dot] edu

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Hello! I am a second-year Master's student in CSE at the University of Michigan. I recieved my bachelor's of science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, double majoring in Computer Science and Data Science with a certificate/minor in Game Design.

I am interested in interpretability for multimodal models. In particular, I wish to focus on the mechanisms behind model behaviors that emerge from human-AI collaboration, especially in the context of robots that are capable of interacting with the physical world. I believe that effective robots must reason not only about the physical world, but also about the humans they interact with.

Currently I work with Joyce Chai in the SLED lab on research involving simulating long-horizon daily human behavior for more grounded predictions to improve personalized assistance for a humanoid robot.

News

June 25, 2025 - CuRe is accepted as a main conference paper at ICCV 2025!

May 10, 2025 - CuRe is accepted as an oral at CVPR DemoDiv workshop!

Research


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