Curriculum Vitae

Education

Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology, Faculty of Computing
September 2025 - June 2030 (expected)
Advisor: Prof. Jie Liu

Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
B.Eng. in Engineering Thermophysics, School of Energy Science and Engineering
August 2021 - June 2025
Ranked 1st out of 157 students in both academic performance and the graduate recommendation evaluation.

Research Interests

• Embodied intelligence and robot learning
• Vision-language-action models
• Multimodal and 3D perception
• Robot manipulation, simulation, and evaluation

Publications

CoFiE: Coarse-to-Fine Evidence Selection for Efficient Streaming Video Understanding
Jing Jiang*, Yiran Ling*, Ruonan Li, Dimitrios Stamoulis, and Jie Liu
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2026. * Equal contribution. Paper, project, and code links forthcoming.

Guide, Think, Act: Interactive Embodied Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models
Yiran Ling*, Qing Lian*, Jinghang Li, Qing Jiang, Tianming Zhang, Xiaoke Jiang, Chuanxiu Liu, Jie Liu, and Lei Zhang
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026. * Equal contribution.
Paper · Project Page · Code

Selected Honors

• National Scholarship, awarded twice (top 1%)
• Outstanding Graduate of Heilongjiang Province and Harbin Institute of Technology
• Outstanding Student of Heilongjiang Province (top 3%)
• Chunhui Innovation Achievement Award, Harbin Institute of Technology

A downloadable PDF version of the full academic CV will be added after the remaining research and project sections are finalized.