Hi there, I am Qizhen Ying

I am a 1st year DPhil student at Active Vision Lab, University of Oxford (Exeter College), jointly supervised by Prof. Victor Adrian Prisacariu and Dr. Yangchen Pan. I recently completed my MSc in Advanced Computer Science at Oxford, and before that, I obtained my undergraduate degree in Mathematics at the University of Bristol, where I conducted ML research under the guidance of Dr. Song Liu.

I am passionate about building physically plausible generative methods that can adapt to a variety of scenarios. I believe effective and stable generative techniques can produce more reliable synthetic data, and I hope these models can also learn how the real world evolves over time.

Research interests: Physically plausible generative models, World Models, Reinforcement Learning.
Contact: qizhen.ying@eng.ox.ac.uk

News

• 2026.05: 🎉 One paper was accepted by ICML 2026.
• 2026.01: 🎉 One paper was accepted by ICRA 2026.

Educations

• 2025.10 - now, DPhil in Engineering Science, University of Oxford.
• 2024.09 - 2025.09, M.Sc. Advanced Computer Science, University of Oxford.
• 2021.09 - 2024.06, B.Sc. Mathematics, University of Bristol.

Publications

• Missing data imputation by reducing mutual information with rectified flows
  Jiahao Yu, Qizhen Ying, Leyang Wang, Ziyue Jiang, Song Liu.
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026, Vol. 38, pp. 80324-80352.
  paper

• ActionReasoning: Robot Action Reasoning in 3D Space with LLM for Robotic Brick Stacking
  Guangming Wang*, Qizhen Ying*, Yixiong Jing, Olaf Wysocki, Brian Sheil.
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026.
  paper

• High-dimensional differential parameter inference in exponential family using time score matching
  Daniel James Williams, Leyang Wang, Qizhen Ying, Song Liu, Mladen Kolar.
  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2025, pp. 3493-3501 (PMLR).
  paper