Jianing Qi

CUNY Graduate Center. 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016

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Email: jqi[at]gradcenter.cuny.edu

I am a PhD student in the Computer Science program at the CUNY Graduate Center. My research interests include language, vision, and reasoning. I am interested in applying machine learning techniques to solve real-world problems. I am advised by Prof. Hao Tang and Prof. Zhigang Zhu, co-advised by Prof. Ping Ji. Currently I am a member of the CCVCL at the City College of New York.

I am interested in collaborating with researchers and students. Please feel free to reach out to me if you are interested in collaborating or discussing research ideas.

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Recent News:

  • [2025-06] Proposed and now lead the Google CyberNYC–funded Cyberpunk project at CUNY, creating an LLM-powered red/blue-team framework that automates cyber-attack simulation and defense testing.

latest posts

Dec 11, 2025 Scaling Law Won’t Stall — But Scaling Law’s Log Will Break Us
Aug 15, 2025 What Does RL Improve when it improves LLM Reasoning?
Jun 21, 2025 The Symbolic-Physical Intelligence Asymmetry: What That Means for AGI
Mar 25, 2025 The Bitter Lesson: Extra Bitter, No Sugar — Why Some Base LLM Models Choke on RL
Jan 08, 2025 The Social Scaling Law: What Did Ilya See

selected publications

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    Policy Gradient Guidance Enables Test Time Control
    Jianing Qi, Hao Tang , and Zhigang Zhu
    2025
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    Learning to Reason Across Parallel Samples for LLM Reasoning
    Jianing Qi, Xi Ye , Hao Tang , and 2 more authors
    2025
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    Beyond Semantics: Rediscovering Spatial Awareness in Vision-Language Models
    Jianing Qi, Jiawei Liu , Hao Tang , and 1 more author
    2025