Yihao (Q) Quan
1st Year Ph.D. Student @ Rutgers University
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ACL 2026 Main
One co-first paper got accepted by ACL 2026 Main
EMNLP 2025 Oral
One co-first author paper got accepted and selected by EMNLP 2025 Oral
NAACL 2025 Oral
One co-first author paper got accepted selected as NAACL 2025 Oral
AAAI 2025
One paper got accepted by AAAI 2025
Yihao (Q) Quan, currently a 1st Year Ph.D. Student at Rutgers University under the esteemed guidance of Prof. Ruixiang (Ryan) Tang. I obtained my B.S. degree at Beijing Jiaotong University in July 2025.
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.
Selected Publications
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Selected Preprints
Recent manuscripts and ongoing work
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Selected Awards and Honors
- 2021-2025: Dean's List of Rochester Institute of Technology
- 2021-2025: 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