
Yihao (Q) Quan
Incoming Ph.D. Student @ Rutgers University
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ACL @ KnowFM
One paper got accepted by ACL @ KnowFM
NAACL 2025 Main
One paper got accepted by NAACL 2025 Main Track
NAACL 2025 Oral
One paper got selected as NAACL 2025 Oral
AAAI 2025
One paper got accepted by AAAI 2025

Yihao (Q) Quan, currently an incoming Ph.D. Student at Rutgers University under the esteemed guidance of Prof. Ruixiang (Ryan) Tang
Research Interests
My research primarily focuses on MultiModal Learning and Trustworthy & Interpretability AI, with a emphasis on the following areas:
- Vision + Language: Bridging the gap between language and vision representation, providing a foundation for more interpretable and controllable multimodal systems.
- Unify Multimodal Understanding and Generation: Bridging architectural differences between autoregressive and diffusion models via mutual promotion of understanding and generation.
- Mechanistic Interpretability: Understanding the internal mechanisms of LLMs and MLLMs.
- Hallucination, Factuality and Safety: Using the interpretability findings to help downstream tasks and design safer models.
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Selected Awards and Honors
- 2021-2025: Dean's List of Rochester Institute of Technology
- 2022-2025: Merit Student of Beijing Jiaotong University
- 2022: Second Prize of National College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition
- 2022: Kaggle Sliver Medal (Top 5%): Feedback Prize - Evaluating Student Writing