About

Hihi, I am Ruining Yang (pronounce: ray-ning-young), a second year PhD in Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Lili Su. Previously, I received my MS in Computer Science from Northeastern University, and BA in Communication from University of Colorado Denver.

My research focuses on scalable and trustworthy foundation-model-based autonomous driving systems, with an emphasis on robust decision-making in complex real-world scenarios. Currently, I am investigating Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and data-efficient learning strategies for autonomous driving.

Research Interests

📝 Selected Publications | See All Publications > | *: Equal Contributions

SpanVLA: Efficient Action Bridging and Learning from Negative-Recovery Samples for Vision-Language-Action Model

Zewei Zhou^*, Ruining Yang^*, Xuewei (Tony) Qi, Yiluan Guo, Sherry X. Chen, Tao Feng, Kateryna Pistunova, Yishan Shen, Lili Su, Jiaqi Ma

Arxiv, 2026  |  Paper  |  Project  | 

Den-TP: A Density-Balanced Data Curation and Evaluation Framework for Trajectory Prediction

Ruining Yang, Yi Xu, Yun Fu, Lili Su

CVPR 2026  |  Paper

Bipartite Mode Matching for Vision Training Set Search from a Hierarchical Data Server

Yue Yao, Ruining Yang, Tom Gedeon

AAAI 2026  |  Paper

Collaborative Compression for Large-Scale MoE Deployment on Edge

Yixiao Chen, Yanyue Xie, Ruining Yang, Wei Jiang, Wei Wang, Yong He, Yue Chen, Pu Zhao, Yanzhi Wang

ICASSP 2026  |  Paper

Trajectory Prediction Meets Large Language Models: A Survey

Yi Xu, Ruining Yang, Yitian Zhang, Jianglin Lu, Mingyuan Zhang, Yizhou Wang, Lili Su, Yun Fu

Arxiv, 2025  |  Paper

A Trajectory Generator for High-Density Traffic and Diverse Agent-Interaction Scenarios

Ruining Yang, Yi Xu, Yixiao Chen, Yun Fu, Lili Su

Arxiv, 2025  |  Paper

Education

• PhD in Computer Engineering, Northeastern University 09/2024 – Present · Boston, MA
• MS in Computer Science, Northeastern University 01/2022 – 08/2024 · Boston, MA

Experience

• Research Intern, Bosch Research 05/2026 – Present · Sunnyvale, CA
• Research Intern, Motional 09/2025 – 05/2026 · Boston, MA