Ruxi Deng

Ruxi Deng

Incoming graduate student in Computational Science and Engineering at Harvard University

Hello! I’m Ruxi Deng, an incoming graduate student in Computational Science and Engineering at Harvard University. I earned my bachelor degree in Computer Engineering, graduating with Highest Honors from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Zhejiang University.

Currently, I work as a research intern with the Qwen Team at Alibaba Group, focusing on LLM agents. Previously, I had the privilege of working as a research intern at the UIUC Data and Intelligent Systems Lab advised by Prof. Jingrui He, and MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab advised by Dr. Chuang Gan.

Education

Harvard University, May. 2028 (Expected)
Master of Engineering in Computational Science and Engineering,
Incoming student

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, May. 2026
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering,
Graduated with Highest Honors

Zhejiang University, Jul. 2026
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic and Computer Engineering,
Outstanding Graduate of both Zhejiang Province and Zhejiang University

Publications

Panda: Test-Time Adaptation with Negative Data Augmentation (AAAI 2026)
Ruxi Deng, Wenxuan Bao, Tianxin Wei, Jingrui He
arXiv | HTML | Code

Mint: A Simple Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models against Common Corruptions (NeurIPS 2025)
Wenxuan Bao*, Ruxi Deng*, Jingrui He
arXiv | HTML | Code

Latte: Collaborative Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models in Federated Learning (ICCV 2025)
Wenxuan Bao, Ruxi Deng, Ruizhong Qiu, Tianxin Wei, HangHang Tong, Jingrui He
arXiv | HTML | Code

(* means equal contributions)

Internship & Research Experience

Qwen Team, Alibaba Group
May. 2026 – Present
Position: Research Intern, LLM Agents

MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab
Jan. 2025 – Mar. 2026
Supervisor: Dr. Chuang Gan, MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab
Position: Research Intern, Embodied Agents

UIUC Data and Intelligent Systems Lab
Dec. 2024 – Aug. 2025
Supervisor: Prof. Jingrui He, School of Information Science, UIUC
Position: Research Intern, Multimodal Models

Awards & Services

Graduation Honors

  • Graduated with Highest Honors, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang Province
  • Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang University

Scholarships

  • National Scholarship
  • Zhejiang Provincial Government Scholarship
  • Zhejiang University First-Class Scholarship

Awards

  • NeurIPS 2025 Scholar Award
  • UIUC Dean’s List
  • ZJU Outstanding Student
  • ZJU Academic Excellence Award
  • ZJU Artistic and Athletic Achievement Award

Sports Honors

  • First Prize, 100m Sprint, 1st ZJU International Campus Games
  • First Prize, 10x50m Relay, 1st ZJU International Campus Games
  • First Prize, 10x50m Relay, ZJU Field and Track Games