About me

My name is Yu Zhou, and I am a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, advised by Prof. Mengxue Hou in the ND ROAR lab. My research lies at the intersection of Robotics, Computer Vision, and Machine/Robot Learning.

Prior to Notre Dame, I earned my M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science from Duke University, and my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology.

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Education

• 🎓 Ph.D., Electrical Engineering — University of Notre Dame, 2023–Present
• 🎓 M.S., Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science — Duke University, 2021–2023
• 🎓 B.S., Mechanical Engineering — Florida Institute of Technology, 2017–2021

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Publications

1. Yu Zhou, Ruochu Yang, Mengxue Hou, “Flow Field Estimation in Underwater Vehicle Navigation using Sporadic Image Observations,” International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), 2025.

2. Likai Pei, Yu Zhou, Xingtian Wang, Xueji Zhao, Wanxin Huang, Boyang Cheng, Halid Mulaosmanovic, Stefan Duenkel, Dominik Kleimaier, Sven Beyer, Kai Ni, Mengxue Hou, Michael Niemier, Ningyuan Cao “Towards Uncertainty-aware Robotic Perception via Mixed-signal BNN Engine Leveraging Probabilistic Quantum Tunneling,” Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.