Kangqi (Kevin) Ni

I am currently a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, advised by Prof. Tianlong Chen.

I earned a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Mathematics from Rice University, where I was advised by Prof. Richard Baraniuk and Prof. Guha Balakrishnan. Previously, I was hosted by Prof. Reid Simmons at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute.

My research broadly focuses on agentic systems and multimodal learning.