Ran Cheng

I lead robotics foundation-model research at the intersection of Vision-Language-Action (VLA), embodied AI, and robot learning.

At Ant Group, I lead foundational VLA research for robotics across pretraining, post-training, reinforcement learning, and universal reward modeling. Previously, I led an R&D department at Midea and scaled robotics products to over one million production units; before that, at Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, I built scene reconstruction and world-model systems for autonomous driving. I hold an M.Sc. from McGill University's Center for Intelligent Machines (advised by Gregory Dudek and David Meger) and a B.S. from Tongji University.