I am a fourth-year Computer Science undergraduate at the University of Toronto, working with Prof. Florian Shkurti in the Robot Vision & Learning (RVL) Lab. Additionally, I have been privileged to collaborate with Prof. Lin Shao from the National University of Singapore and with Dr. Weiyu Liu from Stanford University.

My research focuses on robotics, computer vision, and machine learning, with a particular interest in enabling robots to perform complex, long-horizon tasks through simple human instructions, such as “cook the egg.” I’m currently exploring robot generalization and safety across tasks, objects, and environments to advance this goal.

Selected Publications

* indicates equal contribution.

	SAFE: Scalable Failure Estimation for Vision-Language-Action Models Qiao Gu, Yuanliang Ju, Shengxiang Sun, Igor Gilitschenski, Haruki Nishimura, Masha Itkina, Florian Shkurti Preprint [paper] [project page]
	Manual2Skill: Learning to Read Manuals and Acquire Robotic Skills for Furniture Assembly Using Vision-Language Models Chenrui Tie*, Shengxiang Sun*, Jinxuan Zhu, Yiwei Liu, Jingxiang Guo, Yue Hu, Haonan Chen, Junting Chen, Ruihai Wu, Lin Shao Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2025 [paper] [project page]

Selected Awards

• Summer NSERC Math & Computer Science Research Award (2024)
• Dean’s List (2023-2025)
• General In-Course Scholarship (2022-2024)

Internships

• Machine Learning Engineer, Loblaw Digital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Jan 2024 - Apr 2024)
• Machine Learning Research Intern, New H3C Technologies, Beijing, China (Jul 2023 - Aug 2023)

Education

• Bachelor of Computer Science in University of Toronto, Canada (Sept 2022 - Present)