• Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Kuan-Hao Haung

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles – 2023
  • M.S., Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University – 2016
  • B.S., Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University – 2014

Research Interests

    • Natural language processing
    • Large language models
    • Vision-language models
    • Multilingual understanding

Awards & Honors

  • Google Research Scholar Award – 2025
  • Area Chair Award, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) – 2023

Selected Publications

  • Ziqi Wang, Hanlin Zhang, Xiner Li, Kuan-Hao Huang, Chi Han, Shuiwang Ji, Sham M. Kakade, Hao Peng, Heng Ji. “Eliminating Position Bias of Language Models: A Mechanistic Approach.” In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
  • Zhenhailong Wang, Joy Hsu, Xingyao Wang, Kuan-Hao Huang, Manling Li, Jiajun Wu, Heng Ji. “Visually Descriptive Language Model for Vector Graphics Reasoning.” Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2025
  • Yu Zhou, Bingxuan Li, Mohan Tang, Xiaomeng Jin, Te-Lin Wu, Kuan-Hao Huang, Heng Ji, Kai-Wei Chang, Nanyun Peng. “Contrastive Visual Data Augmentation.” In Proceedings of the Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
  • Kuan-Hao Huang, I-Hung Hsu, Tanmay Parekh, Zhiyu Xie, Zixuan Zhang, Premkumar Natarajan, Kai-Wei Chang, Nanyun Peng, Heng Ji. “TextEE: Benchmark, Reevaluation, Reflections, and Future Challenges in Event Extraction.” In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL (ACL-Findings), 2024
  • Kuan-Hao Huang, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Nanyun Peng, Kai-Wei Chang. “Improving Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning via Robust Training.” In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2021