Hi, this is Ruoxi Ning [宁若汐 (nɪŋ51 ʐuɔ51 ɕi55)]!

Education and Experience

MMath, 2024-2026, University of Waterloo, advised by Freda Shi.
Bachelor of double major in English linguistics and computer science, 2019-2024, Zhejiang University, advised by Bin Shao.
Research assistant, 2021-2024, WestlakeNLP, advised by Yue Zhang.

Research Interests

My research sits at the intersection of NLP, interpretability, and computational linguistics. I am especially interested in how we can use language and vision-language models not only as engineering systems, but also as tools for studying linguistic structure, reasoning, and human-like conceptual behavior.

Selected Papers

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ICLR 2025 NovelQA: Benchmarking Question Answering on Documents Exceeding 200K Tokens

Cunxiang Wang*, Ruoxi Ning*, Boqi Pan, Tonghui Wu, Qipeng Guo, Cheng Deng, Guangsheng Bao, Qian Wang, Yue Zhang.

NovelQA Online Testbench

EMNLP 2025 Demo From Behavioral Performance to Internal Competence: Interpreting Vision-Language Models with VLM-Lens

Hala Sheta, Eric Huang, Shuyu Wu, Ilia Alenabi, Jiajun Hong, Ryker Lin, Ruoxi Ning, Daniel Wei, Jialin Yang, Jiawei Zhou, Ziqiao Ma, Freda Shi.

arXiv 2023 Evaluating the Logical Reasoning Ability of ChatGPT and GPT-4

Hanmeng Liu, Ruoxi Ning, Zhiyang Teng, Jianmin Liu, Qiang Zhou, Yue Zhang.

Bachelor Thesis A Quantitative Study of Register Differentiation and Change in Contemporary English: Latinate/Germanic Ratio as a Parameter

Outstanding Thesis

Service

Winter 2026, Teaching Assistant, CS486/686 Introduction to AI, University of Waterloo.
Spring 2025, Teaching Assistant, CS245 Logic and Computation, University of Waterloo.
2024 - 2026, Reviewer for ARR, NeurIPS, and ICLR.

Awards

University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship, 2024-2026.
Cohere Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science, 2024.