Jian Zhou is a second-year MPhil candidate at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), supervised by A/Prof. Qi Wu. He has a solid background in the theoretical foundations of deep learning and embodied AI, complemented by experience in control theory and robot kinematics, computer vision and 3D reconstruction, digital and analog circuits and electrical machinery, as well as mechanical structures and mechanics of materials. His current research interests include imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and the design of vision-language-action (VLA) models, with the long-term goal of developing theoretically grounded methods for generalist household robots.