Jianing Zhang

I am an incoming M.S. student in Computer Vision at Carnegie Mellon University. I am currently a student researcher at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the RAIVN Lab at the University of Washington, advised by Prof. Ranjay Krishna. During that time, I have worked closely with Chenhao Zheng. Before that, I received my B.S. in Computer Science (Honors, Cum Laude) from the UW Paul G. Allen School, and was fortunate to work at Peking University and at Shanghai AI Lab. My research interest lies in computer vision and multimodal language models.

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News

• 2026/02 TrajTok was accepted to CVPR 2026.
• 2026/01 Joined the Allen Institute for AI as a student researcher.
• 2025/04 Joined the RAIVN Lab at UW with Prof. Ranjay Krishna.

Research Interests

• Multimodal LMs Integrating vision, text, and other modalities for grounded understanding and reasoning.
• 3D / 4D Understanding Representation learning and generative modeling for spatiotemporal and 3D/4D data.
• Embodied AI Intelligent agents that perceive, reason, and act in interactive environments.

Selected Publications

MolmoMotion: Forecasting Point Trajectories in 3D with Language Instruction

Jianing Zhang*, Chenhao Zheng*, Yajun Yang, Rustin Soraki, Winson Han, Chun-Liang Li, Jason Ren, Max Argus, Jieyu Zhang, Ranjay Krishna

In submission

TrajTok: Learning Trajectory Tokens Enhances Video Understanding

Chenhao Zheng, Jieyu Zhang, Jianing Zhang, Weikai Huang, Ashutosh Kumar, Quan Kong, Oncel Tuzel, Chun-Liang Li, Ranjay Krishna

CVPR 2026

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Work Experience

• Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Jan 2026 – Present
  Student Researcher
• RAIVN Lab, UW Apr 2025 – Present
  Student Researcher · with Chenhao Zheng and Prof. Ranjay Krishna
• ZERO Lab, Peking University Jun – Sep 2024
  Student Researcher · with Prof. Zhouchen Lin
• Shanghai AI Lab & Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jun – Sep 2023
  Student Researcher · with Fang Yan, supervisor: Wei Liu

Projects

• Jane Street Market Data Forecasting Nov 2024 – Jan 2025
  Time-series forecasting (Transformer + XGBoost) over 40M+ rows; finished within 0.003 of the competition winner.
• UW CIRCLE Application Jun 2023 – Jun 2024
  Cross-platform React Native / React app for UW's international student program.

Education

• Carnegie Mellon University 2026 – 2027 (incoming)
  M.S. in Computer Vision
• University of Washington 2022 – 2026
  B.S. in Computer Science, Paul G. Allen School · Cum Laude, Honors in CS · GPA 3.94 / 4.00