Scholar
Rui Yang
Google Scholar ID: QHSUy3MAAAAJ
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Citations & Impact
Citations
971
H-index
15
i10-index
17
Publications
20
Co-authors
19
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers on multimodal GUI and embodied agents, multimodal math reasoning, and ML for LMs. His works have been accepted by top conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR.
Research Experience
- Prior to his Ph.D., he worked closely with Prof. Chongjie Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis), Dr. Lei Han (Noitom Robotics, formerly Tencent AI Lab), and Prof. Meng Fang (University of Liverpool).
Education
- Bachelor's degree from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University; Master's degree from CSE, HKUST; Currently a Ph.D. student at UIUC, advised by Prof. Tong Zhang and Prof. Huan Zhang.
Background
- CS Ph.D. student with research interests in agents, trustworthy LLMs/VLMs, and deep reinforcement learning.
Miscellany
- Started an internship at Microsoft Research, Redmond, in May 2025.
