Ruiqi Chen
Incoming Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
I am Ruiqi Chen, an incoming Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Previously, I was at the University of Washington, where I worked with Prof. Jon E. Froehlich in Makeability Lab and Prof. Jacob O. Wobbrock in ACE Lab. I also collaborate closely with Prof. Aditya Parameswaran at the University of California, Berkeley.
My research focuses on building and evaluating AI models and systems that align with human knowledge, goals, and values. More broadly, I am interested in how AI systems can better understand what people know, need, and care about, from agentic data systems and multimodal benchmarks to embodied and human-AI applications.
🔥 News
- 2026.02: 🎉🎉 Our paper CapNav has been accepted to CVPR 2026! Proud to be co-first author on my first CVPR paper.
- 2025.09: 🎉🎉 My research paper developed at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. Aditya Parameswaran has been accepted to CIDR 2026!
- 2025.07: 🎉🎉 Two human-AI research papers FlyMeThrough and SlideAudit have been accepted to UIST 2025!
📝 Publications
( * means Equal Contribution)
Every Act Has Its Price: Compressed Moral Composition in Frontier LLMs
Weijia Zhang*, Ruiqi Chen*, Yunze Xiao*, Weihao Xuan
Preprint
Beyond Agreement: Scoring Panel-Surfaced Biomedical Entity Candidates for Curator Triage
Shuheng Cao*, Ruiqi Chen*, Renjie Cao, Zhenhao Zhang, Siyu Zhang, Tingting Dan
Preprint
CapNav: Benchmarking Vision Language Models on Capability-conditioned Indoor Navigation
Xia Su*, Ruiqi Chen*, Benlin Liu, Jingwei Ma, Zonglin Di, Ranjay Krishna, Jon E. Froehlich
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026 (CVPR2026)
Paper | Github | Hugging Face | Website
Can AI Agents Answer Your Data Questions? A Benchmark for Data Agents
Ruiying Ma*, Shreya Shankar*, Ruiqi Chen, Yiming Lin, Sepanta Zeighami, Rajoshi Ghosh, Abhinav Gupta, Anushrut Gupta, Tanmai Gopal, Aditya G. Parameswaran
Preprint
Who Responds When the Driver Is Gone? A Framework for Human Intent Understanding
Xuewen Luo, Ding Fan, Ruiqi Chen, Ye Cao, Xiujin Liu, Bo Yu, Fengze Yang, Chenxi Liu
Preprint
How Much Vision Does Multimodal Reasoning Need? Vision-Stripping for Multimodal Benchmarks
Weijia Zhang, Zijia Liu, Tianyi Zhang, Ruiqi Chen, Lian Zhang, Haoru Li, Haoqi Chen, Jiaxuan You
Preprint
Paper coming soon.
Event-VLA: Action-Conditioned Event Fusion for Robust Vision-Language-Action Model
Jiaxin Liu*, Xun Xu*, Zhenhao Zhang*, Hanqing Wang, Ruiqi Chen, Shi Chang, Weiyu Guo, Laurent Kneip
Preprint
NüshuVoice: Reviving the Voice of Endangered Nüshu with Pitch-Aware Text-to-Speech
Hongkun Yang*, Xinhui Yi*, Xiyan Zhao*, Yibo Meng*, Lionel Z. Wang, Lixu Wang, Yaqi Zhang, Ruiqi Chen, Xuanyue Zhao, Lanxin Zhang, Yu Zeng, Weijia Chu, Yiming Ma, Chenyu Liu, Jianghao Lin, Xin Xu
Preprint
Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to be Agent-First
Shu Liu, Soujanya Ponnapalli, Shreya Shankar, Sepanta Zeighami, Alan Zhu, Shubham Agarwal, Ruiqi Chen, Samion Suwito, Shuo Yuan, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Alvin Cheung, Natacha Crooks, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Aditya G. Parameswaran
The Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR2026)
FlyMeThrough: Human-AI Collaborative 3D Indoor Mapping with Commodity Drones
Xia Su*, Ruiqi Chen*, Jingwei Ma, Chu Li, Jon E. Froehlich
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST2025)
Paper (PDF) | Github | Website
SlideAudit: A Dataset and Taxonomy for Automated Evaluation of Presentation Slides
Zhuohao Zhang, Ruiqi Chen, Mingyuan Zhong, Jacob O. Wobbrock
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST2025)