About
I am a AI and robotics researcher. I’m working with the PRIOR team at the Allen Institute for AI, and I’m a master’s student at the University of Washington, Seattle. I’m fortunate to be co-advised by Ranjay Krishna in the RAVIN lab, and Dieter Fox in the RSE lab at UW. I work closely with Jiafei Duan and Jieyu Zhang at both AI2 and UW. My research focuses on robot learning and building internet scale robotics foundation models that can generalize to the real world.
📑 Selected Publications
* Equal Contribution as First Authors † Equal Contribution as Second Authors ‡ Equal Contribution as Advisors
PointArena: Probing Multimodal Grounding Through Language-Guided Pointing
Long Cheng*, Jiafei Duan*, Yi Ru Wang† , Haoquan Fang† , Boyang Li†, Yushan Huang, Elvis Wang, Ainaz Eftekhar, Jason Lee, Wentao Yuan, Rose Hendrix, Noah A. Smith, Fei Xia, Dieter Fox, Ranjay Krishna
arXiv 2025
Research Experience
- Allen Institute for AI, Jan 2025 - Present
PRIOR Team- Working on Robotics Foundation Models
- University of Washington, Jun 2024 - Present
RAVIN Lab with Ranjay Krishna- Working on Robotics Foundation Models
- Boston University, Aug 2022 - Jun 2024
H2X Lab with Eshed Ohn-Bar- Worked on Autonomous Driving simulation benchmark
Education
- University of Washington, Sep 2024 - Jun 2026 (Expected)
Masters in Computer Engineering- Advised by Ranjay Krishna and Dieter Fox
- Boston University, Sep 2020 - May 2024
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science
Cum Laude
Dean’s List 2020 - 2024- Advised by Eshed Ohn-Bar
Professional Services
- Conference Reviewer
- Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025 Workshop
Industrial Experience
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Research and Development Intern- Trained a Classification model to detect wafer scratches during the manufacturing process to improve repair and optimization processes.
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
Manufacturing Department Intern at Fab18- Implemented Genetic Algorithm to solve lot and equipment discrepancies and improve manufacturing efficiency
Teaching
- Teaching Assistant, Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
- CS210: Computer Systems