Zhiyi HOU
2025 Fall Ph.D.

Hi👋! My name is Zhiyi HOU.
Zhiyi Hou is a 2025 Ph.D. student at the Autonomous Driving Laboratory (AutoLab), Westlake University. His research interests focus on the spatial reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and end-to-end decision-making for autonomous driving agents.
Representative Paper
- Zhiyi Hou, Enhui Ma, Fang Li, Zhiyi Lai, Kalok Ho, Zhanqian Wu, Lijun Zhou, Long Chen, Chitian Sun, Haiyang Sun, Bing Wang, Guang Chen, Hangjun Ye, Kaicheng Yu, “DriveMRP: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Synthetic Motion Data for Motion Risk Prediction”, arXiv, 2025.
- Tengfei Yu, Xuebo Liu, Zhiyi Hou, Liang Ding, Dacheng Tao, Min Zhang, “Self-Powered LLM Modality Expansion for Large Speech-Text Models”, EMNLP, 2024.
- Yiran Liu, Xiaoang Xu, Zhiyi Hou, Yang Yu, “Causality Based Front-door Defense Against Backdoor Attack on Language Models”, ICML, 2024.
Email:houzhiyi@westlake.edu.cn