Ran Cheng

I'm a robotics researcher focusing on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, embodied AI, and robot learning.

Currently at Ant Group, where I lead a team working on foundational VLA research, including base models, post-training, reinforcement learning, and universal reward functions for robotics. Previously at Midea (robotics) and Huawei Noah's Ark Lab. I completed my M.Sc. at McGill University's Center for Intelligent Machines, advised by Gregory Dudek and David Meger. I received my B.S. from Tongji University.