Qineng Wang (王启能)
Qineng Wang (王启能)
CS Ph.D. Candidate · Northwestern University

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Northwestern University, fortunately advised by Prof. Manling Li. I collaborate closely with the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab (SVL), working with Prof. Li Fei-Fei and Prof. Jiajun Wu on spatial intelligence and embodied agents. Before Northwestern, I received my bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University.

Email: qinengw [at] u (dot) northwestern (dot) edu

Research Interests

Research vision: I study how foundation models develop spatial understanding and decision-making skills, so that embodied agents can act over long horizons and across diverse embodied experiences in complex environments.

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Research Topics Embodied World ModelingEmbodied Decision MakingSpatial IntelligenceReasoning Agents

(* indicates equal contribution; ♣ indicates student mentored by me; † indicates co-advising.)

ENACT: Evaluating Embodied Cognition with World Modeling of Egocentric Interaction

Qineng Wang*, Wenlong Huang*, Yu Zhou, Hang Yin, Tianwei Bao, Jianwen Lyu, Weiyu Liu, Ruohan Zhang†, Jiajun Wu†, Li Fei-Fei†, Manling Li

Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2026 World Models WorkshopOutstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2026 Lifelong Agents WorkshopSpotlight at NeurIPS 2025 LAW Workshop

MindCube: Spatial Mental Modeling from Limited Views

Qineng Wang*, Baiqiao Yin*, Pingyue Zhang, Jianshu Zhang, Kangrui Wang, Zihan Wang, Jieyu Zhang, Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Han Liu, Ranjay Krishna, Saining Xie, Jiajun Wu†, Li Fei-Fei†, Manling Li

Best Paper Award at ICCV 2025 SP4V WorkshopBest Paper Honorable Mention at NeurIPS 2025 LAW WorkshopThe Best of ICCV (featured by Voxel51)Adopted by Gemini 3 Pro

Theory of Space: Can Foundation Models Construct Spatial Beliefs through Active Exploration?

Pingyue Zhang*, Zihan Huang*, Yue Wang*, Jieyu Zhang*, Letian Xue, Zihan Wang, Qineng Wang, Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Ruohan Zhang, Yejin Choi, Ranjay Krishna, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Manling Li

Featured by MIT Tech Review

ActionEQA: Action Interface for Embodied Question Answering

Tianwei Bao*, Qineng Wang*, Kangrui Wang, Mingkai Deng, Guangyi Liu, Zhiting Hu, Eric P. Xing, Manling Li

VAGEN: Reinforcing Visual State Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents

Kangrui Wang*, Pingyue Zhang*, Zihan Wang*, Yaning Gao*, Linjie Li*, Qineng Wang, Hanyang Chen, Yiping Lu, Zhengyuan Yang, Lijuan Wang, Ranjay Krishna, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Yejin Choi, Manling Li

Featured by MIT Tech Review, Stanford HAI
NeurIPS 2025 [Website][Paper][Code]

RAGEN-2: Reasoning Collapse in Agentic RL

Zihan Wang*, Chi Gui*, Xing Jin*, Qineng Wang, Licheng Liu*, Kangrui Wang, Shiqi Chen, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Pingyue Zhang, Yiping Lu, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li

Oral Presentation (Top 0.7%) at ICML 2026Best Paper (Top 1%) at CVPR 2026 MMRAgI WorkshopHugging Face #2 Paper of the DayInvited Talk at MIT Media Lab

RAGEN: Training Agents by Reinforcing Reasoning

Zihan Wang*, Kangrui Wang*, Qineng Wang*, Pingyue Zhang*, Linjie Li*, Zhengyuan Yang, Kefan Yu, Minh Nhat Nguyen, Yiping Lu, Kyunghyun Cho, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li

2.7k+ GitHub StarsBest Poster Award at Midwest Machine Learning Symposium 2025Featured by MIT Tech Review, VentureBeat, MarkTechPost

EmbodiedBench: Comprehensive Benchmarking Multi-modal Large Language Models for Vision-Driven Embodied Agents

Rui Yang*, Hanyang Chen*, Junyu Zhang*, Mark Zhao*, Cheng Qian, Kangrui Wang, Qineng Wang, Teja Venkat Koripella, Marziyeh Movahedi, Manling Li, Heng Ji, Huan Zhang, Tong Zhang

Oral Presentation (Top 1%) at ICML 2025

Embodied Agent Interface: Benchmarking LLMs for Embodied Decision Making

Manling Li*, Shiyu Zhao*, Qineng Wang*, Kangrui Wang*, Yu Zhou*, Sanjana Srivastava, Cem Gokmen, Tony Lee, Li Erran Li, Ruohan Zhang, Weiyu Liu, Percy Liang, Li Fei-Fei, Jiayuan Mao, Jiajun Wu

Oral Presentation (Top 0.6%) at NeurIPS 2024Best Paper (Top 0.4%) at SoCal NLP 2024
NeurIPS 2024 [Website][Paper][Code]

Rethinking the Bounds of LLM Reasoning: Are Multi-Agent Discussions the Key?

Qineng Wang*, Zihao Wang*, Ying Su, Hanghang Tong, Yangqiu Song

ACL (Main) 2024 [Paper]
2025

ENACT: Evaluating Embodied Cognition with World Modeling of Egocentric Interaction

Qineng Wang*, Wenlong Huang*, Yu Zhou, Hang Yin, Tianwei Bao, Jianwen Lyu, Weiyu Liu, Ruohan Zhang†, Jiajun Wu†, Li Fei-Fei†, Manling Li

Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2026 World Models WorkshopOutstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2026 Lifelong Agents WorkshopSpotlight at NeurIPS 2025 LAW Workshop

MindCube: Spatial Mental Modeling from Limited Views

Qineng Wang*, Baiqiao Yin*, Pingyue Zhang, Jianshu Zhang, Kangrui Wang, Zihan Wang, Jieyu Zhang, Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Han Liu, Ranjay Krishna, Saining Xie, Jiajun Wu†, Li Fei-Fei†, Manling Li

Best Paper Award at ICCV 2025 SP4V WorkshopBest Paper Honorable Mention at NeurIPS 2025 LAW WorkshopThe Best of ICCV (featured by Voxel51)Adopted by Gemini 3 Pro

Theory of Space: Can Foundation Models Construct Spatial Beliefs through Active Exploration?

Pingyue Zhang*, Zihan Huang*, Yue Wang*, Jieyu Zhang*, Letian Xue, Zihan Wang, Qineng Wang, Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Ruohan Zhang, Yejin Choi, Ranjay Krishna, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Manling Li

Featured by MIT Tech Review

ActionEQA: Action Interface for Embodied Question Answering

Tianwei Bao*, Qineng Wang*, Kangrui Wang, Mingkai Deng, Guangyi Liu, Zhiting Hu, Eric P. Xing, Manling Li

VAGEN: Reinforcing Visual State Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents

Kangrui Wang*, Pingyue Zhang*, Zihan Wang*, Yaning Gao*, Linjie Li*, Qineng Wang, Hanyang Chen, Yiping Lu, Zhengyuan Yang, Lijuan Wang, Ranjay Krishna, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Yejin Choi, Manling Li

Featured by MIT Tech Review, Stanford HAI
NeurIPS 2025 [Website][Paper][Code]

RAGEN-2: Reasoning Collapse in Agentic RL

Zihan Wang*, Chi Gui*, Xing Jin*, Qineng Wang, Licheng Liu*, Kangrui Wang, Shiqi Chen, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Pingyue Zhang, Yiping Lu, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li

Oral Presentation (Top 0.7%) at ICML 2026Best Paper (Top 1%) at CVPR 2026 MMRAgI WorkshopHugging Face #2 Paper of the DayInvited Talk at MIT Media Lab

RAGEN: Training Agents by Reinforcing Reasoning

Zihan Wang*, Kangrui Wang*, Qineng Wang*, Pingyue Zhang*, Linjie Li*, Zhengyuan Yang, Kefan Yu, Minh Nhat Nguyen, Yiping Lu, Kyunghyun Cho, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li

2.7k+ GitHub StarsBest Poster Award at Midwest Machine Learning Symposium 2025Featured by MIT Tech Review, VentureBeat, MarkTechPost

EmbodiedBench: Comprehensive Benchmarking Multi-modal Large Language Models for Vision-Driven Embodied Agents

Rui Yang*, Hanyang Chen*, Junyu Zhang*, Mark Zhao*, Cheng Qian, Kangrui Wang, Qineng Wang, Teja Venkat Koripella, Marziyeh Movahedi, Manling Li, Heng Ji, Huan Zhang, Tong Zhang

Oral Presentation (Top 1%) at ICML 2025

ODESteer: A Unified ODE-Based Steering Framework for LLM Alignment

Hongjue Zhao*, Haosen Sun*, Jiangtao Kong, Xiaochang Li, Qineng Wang, Liwei Jiang, Qi Zhu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Yejin Choi, Manling Li†, Huajie Shao

ICLR 2026 [Website][Paper]

SENTINEL: A Multi-Level Formal Framework for Safety Evaluation of LLM-based Embodied Agents

Simon Sinong Zhan*, Yao Liu*, Philip Wang*, Zinan Wang, Qineng Wang, Zhian Ruan, Xiangyu Shi, Xinyu Cao, Frank Yang, Kangrui Wang, Huajie Shao, Manling Li, Qi Zhu

2024

Embodied Agent Interface: Benchmarking LLMs for Embodied Decision Making

Manling Li*, Shiyu Zhao*, Qineng Wang*, Kangrui Wang*, Yu Zhou*, Sanjana Srivastava, Cem Gokmen, Tony Lee, Li Erran Li, Ruohan Zhang, Weiyu Liu, Percy Liang, Li Fei-Fei, Jiayuan Mao, Jiajun Wu

Oral Presentation (Top 0.6%) at NeurIPS 2024Best Paper (Top 0.4%) at SoCal NLP 2024
NeurIPS 2024 [Website][Paper][Code]

Rethinking the Bounds of LLM Reasoning: Are Multi-Agent Discussions the Key?

Qineng Wang*, Zihao Wang*, Ying Su, Hanghang Tong, Yangqiu Song

ACL (Main) 2024 [Paper]

Lens: A Foundation Model for Network Traffic in Cybersecurity

Qineng Wang, Chen Qian, Xiaochang Li, Ziyu Yao, Huajie Shao

arXiv 2024 [Paper]
Embodied World Modeling

ENACT: Evaluating Embodied Cognition with World Modeling of Egocentric Interaction

Qineng Wang*, Wenlong Huang*, Yu Zhou, Hang Yin, Tianwei Bao, Jianwen Lyu, Weiyu Liu, Ruohan Zhang†, Jiajun Wu†, Li Fei-Fei†, Manling Li

Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2026 World Models WorkshopOutstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2026 Lifelong Agents WorkshopSpotlight at NeurIPS 2025 LAW Workshop

MindCube: Spatial Mental Modeling from Limited Views

Qineng Wang*, Baiqiao Yin*, Pingyue Zhang, Jianshu Zhang, Kangrui Wang, Zihan Wang, Jieyu Zhang, Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Han Liu, Ranjay Krishna, Saining Xie, Jiajun Wu†, Li Fei-Fei†, Manling Li

Best Paper Award at ICCV 2025 SP4V WorkshopBest Paper Honorable Mention at NeurIPS 2025 LAW WorkshopThe Best of ICCV (featured by Voxel51)Adopted by Gemini 3 Pro

Theory of Space: Can Foundation Models Construct Spatial Beliefs through Active Exploration?

Pingyue Zhang*, Zihan Huang*, Yue Wang*, Jieyu Zhang*, Letian Xue, Zihan Wang, Qineng Wang, Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Ruohan Zhang, Yejin Choi, Ranjay Krishna, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Manling Li

Featured by MIT Tech Review

ActionEQA: Action Interface for Embodied Question Answering

Tianwei Bao*, Qineng Wang*, Kangrui Wang, Mingkai Deng, Guangyi Liu, Zhiting Hu, Eric P. Xing, Manling Li

EmbodiedBench: Comprehensive Benchmarking Multi-modal Large Language Models for Vision-Driven Embodied Agents

Rui Yang*, Hanyang Chen*, Junyu Zhang*, Mark Zhao*, Cheng Qian, Kangrui Wang, Qineng Wang, Teja Venkat Koripella, Marziyeh Movahedi, Manling Li, Heng Ji, Huan Zhang, Tong Zhang

Oral Presentation (Top 1%) at ICML 2025

Embodied Agent Interface: Benchmarking LLMs for Embodied Decision Making

Manling Li*, Shiyu Zhao*, Qineng Wang*, Kangrui Wang*, Yu Zhou*, Sanjana Srivastava, Cem Gokmen, Tony Lee, Li Erran Li, Ruohan Zhang, Weiyu Liu, Percy Liang, Li Fei-Fei, Jiayuan Mao, Jiajun Wu

Oral Presentation (Top 0.6%) at NeurIPS 2024Best Paper (Top 0.4%) at SoCal NLP 2024
NeurIPS 2024 [Website][Paper][Code]

Embodied Decision Making

ActionEQA: Action Interface for Embodied Question Answering

Tianwei Bao*, Qineng Wang*, Kangrui Wang, Mingkai Deng, Guangyi Liu, Zhiting Hu, Eric P. Xing, Manling Li

VAGEN: Reinforcing Visual State Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents

Kangrui Wang*, Pingyue Zhang*, Zihan Wang*, Yaning Gao*, Linjie Li*, Qineng Wang, Hanyang Chen, Yiping Lu, Zhengyuan Yang, Lijuan Wang, Ranjay Krishna, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Yejin Choi, Manling Li

Featured by MIT Tech Review, Stanford HAI
NeurIPS 2025 [Website][Paper][Code]

RAGEN-2: Reasoning Collapse in Agentic RL

Zihan Wang*, Chi Gui*, Xing Jin*, Qineng Wang, Licheng Liu*, Kangrui Wang, Shiqi Chen, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Pingyue Zhang, Yiping Lu, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li

Oral Presentation (Top 0.7%) at ICML 2026Best Paper (Top 1%) at CVPR 2026 MMRAgI WorkshopHugging Face #2 Paper of the DayInvited Talk at MIT Media Lab

RAGEN: Training Agents by Reinforcing Reasoning

Zihan Wang*, Kangrui Wang*, Qineng Wang*, Pingyue Zhang*, Linjie Li*, Zhengyuan Yang, Kefan Yu, Minh Nhat Nguyen, Yiping Lu, Kyunghyun Cho, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li

2.7k+ GitHub StarsBest Poster Award at Midwest Machine Learning Symposium 2025Featured by MIT Tech Review, VentureBeat, MarkTechPost

EmbodiedBench: Comprehensive Benchmarking Multi-modal Large Language Models for Vision-Driven Embodied Agents

Rui Yang*, Hanyang Chen*, Junyu Zhang*, Mark Zhao*, Cheng Qian, Kangrui Wang, Qineng Wang, Teja Venkat Koripella, Marziyeh Movahedi, Manling Li, Heng Ji, Huan Zhang, Tong Zhang

Oral Presentation (Top 1%) at ICML 2025

Embodied Agent Interface: Benchmarking LLMs for Embodied Decision Making

Manling Li*, Shiyu Zhao*, Qineng Wang*, Kangrui Wang*, Yu Zhou*, Sanjana Srivastava, Cem Gokmen, Tony Lee, Li Erran Li, Ruohan Zhang, Weiyu Liu, Percy Liang, Li Fei-Fei, Jiayuan Mao, Jiajun Wu

Oral Presentation (Top 0.6%) at NeurIPS 2024Best Paper (Top 0.4%) at SoCal NLP 2024
NeurIPS 2024 [Website][Paper][Code]

SENTINEL: A Multi-Level Formal Framework for Safety Evaluation of LLM-based Embodied Agents

Simon Sinong Zhan*, Yao Liu*, Philip Wang*, Zinan Wang, Qineng Wang, Zhian Ruan, Xiangyu Shi, Xinyu Cao, Frank Yang, Kangrui Wang, Huajie Shao, Manling Li, Qi Zhu


Spatial Intelligence

ENACT: Evaluating Embodied Cognition with World Modeling of Egocentric Interaction

Qineng Wang*, Wenlong Huang*, Yu Zhou, Hang Yin, Tianwei Bao, Jianwen Lyu, Weiyu Liu, Ruohan Zhang†, Jiajun Wu†, Li Fei-Fei†, Manling Li

Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2026 World Models WorkshopOutstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2026 Lifelong Agents WorkshopSpotlight at NeurIPS 2025 LAW Workshop

MindCube: Spatial Mental Modeling from Limited Views

Qineng Wang*, Baiqiao Yin*, Pingyue Zhang, Jianshu Zhang, Kangrui Wang, Zihan Wang, Jieyu Zhang, Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Han Liu, Ranjay Krishna, Saining Xie, Jiajun Wu†, Li Fei-Fei†, Manling Li

Best Paper Award at ICCV 2025 SP4V WorkshopBest Paper Honorable Mention at NeurIPS 2025 LAW WorkshopThe Best of ICCV (featured by Voxel51)Adopted by Gemini 3 Pro

Theory of Space: Can Foundation Models Construct Spatial Beliefs through Active Exploration?

Pingyue Zhang*, Zihan Huang*, Yue Wang*, Jieyu Zhang*, Letian Xue, Zihan Wang, Qineng Wang, Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran, Ruohan Zhang, Yejin Choi, Ranjay Krishna, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Manling Li

Featured by MIT Tech Review

Reasoning Agents

VAGEN: Reinforcing Visual State Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents

Kangrui Wang*, Pingyue Zhang*, Zihan Wang*, Yaning Gao*, Linjie Li*, Qineng Wang, Hanyang Chen, Yiping Lu, Zhengyuan Yang, Lijuan Wang, Ranjay Krishna, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Yejin Choi, Manling Li

Featured by MIT Tech Review, Stanford HAI
NeurIPS 2025 [Website][Paper][Code]

RAGEN-2: Reasoning Collapse in Agentic RL

Zihan Wang*, Chi Gui*, Xing Jin*, Qineng Wang, Licheng Liu*, Kangrui Wang, Shiqi Chen, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Pingyue Zhang, Yiping Lu, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li

Oral Presentation (Top 0.7%) at ICML 2026Best Paper (Top 1%) at CVPR 2026 MMRAgI WorkshopHugging Face #2 Paper of the DayInvited Talk at MIT Media Lab

RAGEN: Training Agents by Reinforcing Reasoning

Zihan Wang*, Kangrui Wang*, Qineng Wang*, Pingyue Zhang*, Linjie Li*, Zhengyuan Yang, Kefan Yu, Minh Nhat Nguyen, Yiping Lu, Kyunghyun Cho, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Lijuan Wang, Yejin Choi, Manling Li

2.7k+ GitHub StarsBest Poster Award at Midwest Machine Learning Symposium 2025Featured by MIT Tech Review, VentureBeat, MarkTechPost

Rethinking the Bounds of LLM Reasoning: Are Multi-Agent Discussions the Key?

Qineng Wang*, Zihao Wang*, Ying Su, Hanghang Tong, Yangqiu Song

ACL (Main) 2024 [Paper]

ODESteer: A Unified ODE-Based Steering Framework for LLM Alignment

Hongjue Zhao*, Haosen Sun*, Jiangtao Kong, Xiaochang Li, Qineng Wang, Liwei Jiang, Qi Zhu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Yejin Choi, Manling Li†, Huajie Shao

ICLR 2026 [Website][Paper]

SENTINEL: A Multi-Level Formal Framework for Safety Evaluation of LLM-based Embodied Agents

Simon Sinong Zhan*, Yao Liu*, Philip Wang*, Zinan Wang, Qineng Wang, Zhian Ruan, Xiangyu Shi, Xinyu Cao, Frank Yang, Kangrui Wang, Huajie Shao, Manling Li, Qi Zhu

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