Luzhe Sun
Ph.D. Candidate @ TTIC - Robotics Planning and Diffusion Models
I'm a Ph.D. candidate at TTIC advised by Professor Matthew R. Walter in the Robot Intelligence through Perception Lab (RIPL). Before TTIC, I completed my master's in Computer Science at the University of Chicago and my undergraduate studies at Xiamen University.
Research interests: robotics planning, shared autonomy, diffusion/consistency models, and embodied AI. I also enjoy photography, Chinese painting, and playing the Erhu.
Open to collaborations - seeking Autumn & Winter 2026 internships
Email: luzhesun@ttic.edu | luzhesun@uchicago.edu
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
2023 - Present
Master of Computer Science
University of Chicago
2021 - 2022
B.Eng in Information Science, Graduated With Honor
Xiamen University
2017 - 2021
Latest News
May 2026
Gold Reviewer! I'm ranked as a Gold Reviewer for ICML 2026.
Mar 2026
Paper Accepted! Our paper "Seeing without Looking: Do Vision-Language Benchmarks Really Test Vision?" has been accepted to CVPR 2026 GRAIL-V Workshop.
Mar 2026
Code Released! We released the code for FlashBack on CoRL 2025.
Jan 2026
Paper Accepted! Our paper "Detecting Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models without Generating a Single Token" has been accepted to EACL 2026 Main (Oral).
Oct 2025
Invited Livestream! Our paper "FlashBack" was invited for livestream presentation at CVlife and 3dcver.
Publications
Selected Publications
Service and Volunteer
Organizer
Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Workshop at TTIC, Chicago, IL (2024)
Invited Demo
2024 Robot Block Party at Griffin Museum of Science, Chicago, IL
Invited Demo
2023 Robot Block Party at Griffin Museum of Science, Chicago, IL
Volunteer
Midwest Robotics Workshop at TTIC, Chicago, IL
Awards and Honors
Gold Reviewer
2026 - International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
China National Scholarship (Top 0.1%)
2020 - Chinese Ministry of Education, China
China National Scholarship (Top 0.1%)
2019 - Chinese Ministry of Education, China
Honored Graduate Student
2021 - Xiamen University, China
National 2nd Prize of Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling
2019 - China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, China
National 3rd Prize of China Students Service Outsourcing Competition
2018 - Ministry of Education & Ministry of Commerce, China
Xiamen University "Xilie Huang" Annual Scholarship (2/200)
2018 - Xiamen University, China
Xiamen University Outstanding Student Worker Scholarship
2018 - Xiamen University, China
Mentoring
Xiaopeng Zhang, University of Chicago (Master) --> Rutgers University (Ph.D. student)
Projects
Embodied ChatGPT | Robot Block Party 2023
Implemented Code as Policies on a UR5 robot so it could respond to voice commands and execute tasks. Presented at the 2023 National Robotics Week at MSI Chicago and the 2023 South Side Science Festival.
AI Transnational Free Travel Assistant APP
AI travel assistant for independent tourists from China and Japan, covering attractions, restaurants, accommodation, transportation, and language barriers.