Ruihan Yang

Ruihan Yang

Member of Technical Staff · Nuance Labs

Ph.D. UC Irvine

I am a Member of Technical Staff at Nuance Labs. My current research centers on multimodal foundation models and interaction models. On the side, due to my previous research background, I am also interested in generative models.

I received my PhD in Computer Science at UC Irvine, where I had been conducting research since Fall 2019 under the supervision of Prof. Stephan Mandt. My research primarily focuses on developing neural-based approaches for image/video compression and generation.

Before joining UC Irvine, I earned my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from NYU Shanghai. During my undergraduate studies, I had the privilege of working as a research assistant with Prof. Gus Xia, where I investigated generative modeling applications in music. Additionally, I collaborated with Prof. Hanghui Chen on physics research, gaining valuable interdisciplinary experience.

Multimodal Foundation Models Interaction Models Neural Data Compression Diffusion Generative Models

Latest Publication

Penguin-VL: Exploring the Efficiency Limits of VLM with LLM-based Vision Encoders Technical Report, 2026 Boqiang Zhang*, Lei Ke*, Ruihan Yang*, Qi Gao*, Tianyuan Qu*, Rossell Chen, Dong Yu, Leoweiliang

ruihan.yang@uci.edu

github.com/buggyyang

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