Ruxi Deng

Ruxi Deng

Senior undergraduate majoring in Computer Engineering at the ZJU-UIUC Institute

Hello! I’m Ruxi Deng, a final-year undergraduate student majoring in Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Zhejiang University-University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute, co-cultivated by Zhejiang University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

During my junior year, I had the privilege of working as a research intern at the UIUC Data and Information Systems Lab (specifically iDEA-iSAIL Joint Lab) advised by Prof. Jingrui He.

Education

Zhejiang University, Jun. 2026 (Expected)
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic and Computer Engineering

  • Courses: MATH213 Basic Discrete Mathematics, MATH221 Calculus I, MATH231 Calculus II, MATH241 Calculus III, MATH257 Linear Algebra with Computational Applications, MATH285 Differential Equations, PHYS211 Mechanics, PHYS212 Electronic & Magnetics, PHYS213 Thermal Physics, PHYS214 Quantum Physics

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Jun. 2026 (Expected)
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

  • Courses: ECE310 Digital Signal Processing, ECE313 Probability with Engineering Applications, ECE448 Artificial Intelligence, ECE494 Deep Learning of Computer Vision, ECE374 Introduction to Algorithms & Models of Computation, CS411 Database Systems, CS412 Introduction of Data Mining, CS441 Applied Machine Learning

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

Research Experience

UIUC Data and Information Systems Laboratory (iDEA-iSAIL Joint Lab)
Dec. 2024 – Aug. 2025
Supervisor: Prof. Jingrui He, School of Information Science, UIUC
I worked as a research intern focusing on Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models.

Awards & Services

Scholarship

  • China National Scholarship
  • Scholarship of Zhejiang Province
  • Zhejiang University Scholarship - First Prize

Awards

  • ZJU Outstanding Student
  • ZJU Academic Excellence Award
  • ZJU Artistic and Athletic Achievement Award

Sports Achievements

  • First Prize, 100m Sprint, 1st International Campus Games, International Campus ZJU 2023
  • First Prize, 10x50m Relay, 1st International Campus Games, International Campus ZJU 2023
  • First Prize, 10x50m Relay, Field and Track Games, ZJU 2023

Teaching Assistant

  • RHET101 Principles of Writing
  • RHET102 Principles of Research