I am currently a Ph.D. student at the School of Computer Science, University of Auckland, advised by Prof. Jingfeng ZHANG and also co-advised by Prof. Jing SUN.

I received my M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the School of Artificial Intelligence, Hebei University of Technology in 2024, under the supervision of Bin CAO. Prior to that, I obtained my B.Sc. degree in Applied Physics from the School of Science, Hebei University of Technology in 2020. During my graduate studies, I worked on in-vehicle LiDAR algorithms at China Automotive Technology & Research Center Co., Ltd.

Research Interests: My research mainly focuses on trustworthy and robust embodied AI.

🔥 News

2024.11: 🎉🎉 I’m going to Auckland to start my Ph.D.

📝 Publications

arXiv

Model-Agnostic Adversarial Attack and Defense for Vision-Language-Action Models

Haochuan Xu, Yun Sing Koh, Shuhuai Huang, Zirun Zhou, Di Wang, Jun Sakuma, Jingfeng Zhang

arXiv, 2025

[Website] | [PDF] | [Code]

arXiv

Goal-Oriented Backdoor Attack against Vision-Language-Action Models via Physical Objects

Zirun Zhou, Zhengyang Xiao, Haochuan Xu, Jing Sun, Di Wang, Jingfeng Zhang

arXiv, 2025

[Website] | [PDF] | [Code]

ACM MM

Adaptive Multiobjective Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search for GANs based on Two-Factor Cooperative Mutation Mechanism

Bin Cao, Zirun Zhou, Xin Liu, M. Shamim Hossain, Zhihan Lv

ACM MM Workshop on AMC-SME, 2023 (Best Paper Award)

🏫 Academic Service

Reviewer: IROS 2026

🎖 Honors and Awards

2023.11 Graduate Academic Scholarship.
2019.03 Undergraduate Academic Scholarship.
2018.12 Beijing - Tianjin - Hebei Universities Badminton Tournament Men’s Singles Champion.

📖 Educations

2024.11 - (now), Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, School of Computer Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
2021.09 - 2024.06, Master in Computer Science, School of Artificial Intelligence, Hebei University of Technology, China.
2017.09 - 2020.06, Bachelor of Management (Minor, Double Degree) in Business Administration, School of Economics and Management, Hebei University of Technology, China.
2016.09 - 2020.06, Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics, School of Science, Hebei University of Technology, China.

💻 Internships