Ding Ning
Ning Ding is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University, where he researches artificial intelligence with a focus on reasoning intelligence and general intelligence. He received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2023 and previously served as a postdoctoral researcher in the same department. He is known for his work on large language model alignment, reinforcement learning for reasoning, and the SimpleVLA-RL framework for vision-language-action models in robotics. He founded the company Natural Will, focusing on embodied intelligence.
“Ding Ning — Tsinghua professor, author of Simple VLA series — mentioned alongside Liu Songming as a next-generation young academic entrepreneur from Tsinghua with high research impact and strong founder qualities.”
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