Qiuyi (Rachel) Ding

I am an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan with an honors degree in Computer Science. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Andrew Owens. I also work with Prof. Ang Chen, Prof. Nathan Bleier, and Prof. Laszlo A. Jeni.

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Research Interests

My research interests lie in controllable generation, multimodal perception, and embodied AI.

News

01/2026: One paper accepted to ICLR 2026!

Publications
Background sound, generated mask, and their combination Generative Sound Masking
Yiming Dou*, Qiuyi Ding*, Andrew Owens
2026

An online generative model that produces pleasant sounds to mask unwanted background noise in real time.

Curie: Toward Rigorous and Automated Scientific Experimentation with AI Agents
Patrick Tser Jern Kon*, Jiachen Liu*, Qiuyi Ding, Yiming Qiu, Zhenning Yang, Yibo Huang, Jayanth Srinivasa, Myungjin Lee, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Ang Chen
project page / Paper / GitHub

An AI agent framework designed to automate scientific experimentation with rigor at its core. From reproducing existing results to extending and challenging them, Curie enables researchers to move scientific research at the speed of thought.

EXP-Bench: Can AI Conduct AI Research Experiments?
Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Qiuyi Ding, Jiachen Liu, Xinyi Zhu, Jingjia Peng, Jiarong Xing, Yibo Huang, Yiming Qiu, Jayanth Srinivasa, Myungjin Lee, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Matei Zaharia, Ang Chen
ICLR 2026
Paper / Hugging Face / GitHub

We introduce a large-scale benchmark of 461 AI research experiments and 12,000+ subtasks to evaluate whether AI agents can conduct end-to-end scientific experimentation.

Misc.
  • Tabletop role-playing games: I enjoy playing Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) and Call of Cthulhu (CoC). I've been fortunate to meet some wonderful friends through in-person sessions. Here's a photo of our dice collection.
  • Musical theatre: I also enjoy listening to musicals, especially rock musicals. Some of my favorites include Mozart, l'opéra rock and Le Rouge et le Noir, l'opéra rock.

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Last updated May 2026.