about me

I study how models perceive and reason about the visual world. My goal is to enable human-centric visual reasoning, a perceptual foundation for the world models and embodied AI systems that will navigate our physical world.

Ruiqi Wang is a Ph.D student in GrUVi Lab at Simon Fraser University, supervised by Prof. Hao(Richard) Zhang. Her research centers on visual perception and multimodal reasoning with Vision Language Models for spatial and temporal understanding. Ruiqi is also a Research Intern at NVIDIA Research under Bowen Wen & Stan Birchfield and has previously worked as an Applied Scientist Intern at AWS Bedrock & Amazon Science separately. She spent a great summer as a visiting student at MMLab@Nanyang Technological University, working with Prof. Ziwei Liu. She received her M.S. (with Distinction) from The Australian National University and completed her B.Eng (Cum Laude) at Beijing Normal University in 3 years.