Qiuyi (Rachel) Ding

I am an undergraduate student in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. I'm advised by Prof. Andrew Owens during my honors program. I'm also fortunate to collaborate with Prof. Ang Chen and Patrick Kon, who provided me with invaluable research experience.

Email / Scholar / Github

Research Interests

My research interests lie in controllable generation, multimodal perception, and unsupervised learning.

News

01/2026: 🎉 One paper accepted to ICLR 2026, See you in Brazil!

Publications

HidingSound: Natural Soundscape Generation for Online Noise Coverage
Qiuyi Ding^*, Yiming Dou^*, Andrew Owens
2026

An online soundscape generation system using DiT to produce immersive natural soundscapes that perceptually mask unwanted noise in real-world environments.

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.

Selected Projects

Immersive NPCs in VR Game Environment (2024)
Course Project for EECS498: AI-Enabled Mixed Reality

Built LLM-powered NPCs in Unity + VRChat with GPT-4, giving them persistent memory, distinct personalities, and full speech I/O. NPCs that actually remember you next time.

Encoder Integration and Efficiency Optimization for Language-Embedded Radiance Fields (2024)
Course Project for EECS442: Computer Vision

LERF embeds CLIP language features into a NeRF, enabling open-vocabulary text queries to localize objects in 3D scenes. We swapped in a SigLIP encoder for sharper localization accuracy, and cut training time by 31% via AdamW and reduced eval/checkpoint overhead.

Misc.

I enjoy playing tabletop role-playing games such as D&D and COC. I've been fortunate to meet some wonderful friends through in-person sessions. Here's a photo of our dice collection.

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Last updated Jul 2025.