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

  1. 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.
  2. Tengfei Yu, Xuebo Liu, Zhiyi Hou, Liang Ding, Dacheng Tao, Min Zhang, “Self-Powered LLM Modality Expansion for Large Speech-Text Models”, EMNLP, 2024.
  3. 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