• 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 Paper Award, Association for Computational Linguistics – 2023

Selected Publications

  • Jiaqian Li, Yanshu Li, Boxuan Zhang, Ruixiang Tang, and Kuan-Hao Huang. 2026. “TRACES: Proactive Safety Auditing for Multi-Turn LLM Agents via Trajectory-State Modeling.” In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
  • Oscar Chew, Hsiao-Ying Huang, Kunal Jain, Tai-I Chen, Khoa D. Doan, and Kuan-Hao Huang. 2026. “Is CLIP Cross-Eyed? Revealing and Mitigating Center Bias in the CLIP Family.” In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Language Modeling (COLM).
  • Muhan Gao, Zih-Ching Chen, and Kuan-Hao Huang. 2026. “The First Drop of Ink: Nonlinear Impact of Distracting Information in Long-Context Reasoning.” In Proceedings of the Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
  • Taeyoon Kwon, Dongwook Choi, Sunghwan Kim Hyojun Kim, Seungjun Moon, Beong woo Kwak, Kuan-Hao Huang, and Jinyoung Yeo. 2026. “Embodied Agents Meet Personalization: Investigating Challenges and Solutions Through the Lens of Memory Utilization.” In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
  • Zhaotian Weng, Haoxuan Li, Xin Eric Wang, Kuan-Hao Huang, and Jieyu Zhao. 2026. “What’s Missing in Vision-Language Models? Probing Their Struggles with Causal Order Reasoning.” In Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL).