About Me

I am Qingni Wang, a Master’s student in Computer Science at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), supervised by prof. Bo Fu. Previously, I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Information Science and Technology from China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT) (2019.09 - 2023.06). I also visited the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTECH) (2024.06 - 2024.10), where I was supervised by prof. Feng Zheng. I am currently a summer intern at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)(2025.06 - present), under the guidance of prof. Xin Eric Wang. My research interests include:

• Uncertainty Quantification: Conformal Prediction, Conformal Risk Control.
• Hallucination in Question Answering (QA) Tasks of LLMs and MLLMs.
• Trustworthy AI Agents: Risk-Aware Planning and Reliable Task Execution.

You can find my CV here: Qingni’s Curriculum Vitae.

You can check out my publications and updates on my Google Scholar profile.

🔥🔥Seeking PhD opportunities for Fall 2026🔍 ! Also open to collaborations and academic discussions — feel free to reach out!

🌍 News

• 2025.11: 🎉🎉 One paper has been accepted to AAAI 2025.
• 2025.05: 🎉🎉 One paper has been accepted to ACL 2025(Main)！See you in Vienna🇦🇹！
• 2025.02: 🎉🎉 One paper has been accepted to CVPR 2025.
• 2025.01: 🎉🎉 One paper has been accepted to ICLR 2025 Spotlight (5%)！See you in Singapore🇸🇬！
• 2024.11: 🎉🎉 One paper has been accepted to EMNLP 2024 (Findings).

📝 Publications

Conference Papers:

† means equal contribution

1. Qingni Wang, Tiantian Geng, Zhiyuan Wang, Teng Wang, Bo Fu, Feng Zheng. “Sample then Identify: A General Framework for Risk Control and Assessment in Multimodal Large Language Models.” ICLR 2025 (Spotlight). [Paper]
2. Qingni Wang, Yue Fan, Xin Eric Wang. “SAFER: Risk-Constrained Sample-then-Filter in Large Language Models.” Under review.[Paper]
3. Zhiyuan Wang†, Qingni Wang†, Yue Zhang, Tianlong Chen, Xiaofeng Zhu, Xiaoshuang Shi, Kaidi Xu. “SConU: Selective Conformal Uncertainty in Large Language Models.” ACL 2025(Main). [Paper]
4. Tiantian Geng, Jinrui Zhang, Qingni Wang, Teng Wang, Jinming Duan, Feng Zheng. “LongVALE: Vision-Audio-Language-Event Benchmark Towards Time-Aware Omni-Modal Perception of Long Videos.” CVPR 2025.[Paper]
5. Zhiyuan Wang, Jinhao Duan, Qingni Wang, Xiaofeng Zhu, Tianlong Chen, Xiaoshuang Shi, Kaidi Xu. “COIN: Uncertainty-Guarding Selective Question Answering for Foundation Models with Provable Risk Guarantees.” AAAI 2025. [Paper]
6. Zhiyuan Wang, Jinhao Duan, Lu Cheng, Yue Zhang, Qingni Wang, Xiaoshuang Shi, Kaidi Xu, Hengtao Shen, Xiaofeng Zhu. “ConU: Conformal Uncertainty in Large Language Models with Correctness Coverage Guarantees.” EMNLP 2024 (Findings). [Paper]

🎒 Language Proficiency

IELTS 7.5 (Sep 2025)

🎖 Honors and Awards

• Academic Seedling Award,
• National Scholarship,
• Outstanding Student,
• First Prize Scholarship,

📜 Academic Services

• Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025)
• Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025)
• ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2025)
• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026)

📩 Contact

Email: qingni1031@gmail.com

🙋🏻‍♀️ More about me

• I have a very cute cat named Bingbing (饼饼)!!! 🐱 And in my free time, I enjoy swimming. 🏊‍♀️