Hi there! I am Litian Gong (龚利天), a Master's student in Electrical Engineering at University of California, Riverside. I am a member of TASL under the supervision of Prof. Jiachen Li. I am also a student research intern at the Learning and Interactive Robot Autonomy Lab (LIRA) at USC, working with Prof. Erdem Bıyık.

Before that, I received my Bachelor's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), working with Prof. Shaorong Wang.

My research interest lies in robotic learning systems that fuse imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and VLMs to enable multimodal reasoning, long-horizon skills, sim-to-real transfer, and trustworthy, data-efficient autonomy.

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AutoFocus-IL: VLM-based Saliency Maps for Data-Efficient Visual Imitation Learning without Extra Human Annotations
Litian Gong, Fatemeh Bahrani, Yutai Zhou, Amin Banayeeanzade, Jiachen Li, Erdem Bıyık
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026
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ORIC: Benchmarking Object Recognition under Contextual Incongruity in Large Vision-Language Models
Zhaoyang Li*, Zhan Ling*, Yuchen Zhou, Litian Gong, Erdem Bıyık, Hao Su
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
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A Friendly Grid-connected Distribution System with PV and ESS for Remote Rural Residential Family
Litian Gong, Jiaxuan Ren, Shuoyu Jin, Shaorong Wang
3rd International Conference on New Energy and Power Engineering (ICNEPE), 2023
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