📝 Publications
( * means Equal Contribution)

CertBind from Multimodal Connectivity to Certifiable Retrieval Decisions
Shuheng Cao*, Zhenhao Zhang*, Ruiqi Chen*, Renjie Cao, Weijia Zhang, Siyu Zhang, Jiaxin Liu, Xiangyu Zeng, Haotian Geng, Fan Gu
Preprint

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)