Kuan-Hao Huang

Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University

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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, where I lead the FLAIR Lab. Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working with Heng Ji. I received my Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles, where I worked with Kai-Wei Chang and Nanyun Peng. My research focuses on natural language processing, aiming to develop trustworthy and generalizable language AI systems. I address fundamental challenges in robustness, reliability, safety, fairness, and adaptability to ensure that large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) are reliable and socially responsible. Currently, my research includes several key directions: (1) Robustness of LLMs and VLMs, (2) Multimodal Reasoning, and (3) Multilingual Understanding.

I am looking for self-motivated students to join my group in Fall 2026. If you are interested in large language models, multimodal learning, or multilingual NLP, please find more information here.

Office: PETR 219, Texas A&M University
Phone: (979) 458-2205
Email: khhuang [at] tamu [dot] edu

News

[08.2025] I will be giving a talk about LLM robustness at William & Mary Data Science Colloquium in October
[08.2025] We will be giving a tutorial on Robust and Trustworthy Large Language Models at ACML 2025
[07.2025] I will be giving a talk about LLM robustness at Rice AI Seminar Series in October
[06.2025] Thrilled to receive the 2025 Google Research Scholar Award
[05.2025] I will be giving talks at National Taiwan University, National Tsing Hua University, and Academia Sinica
[05.2025] Our paper about contrastive visual data augmentation has been accepted by ICML 2025
[04.2025] I will serve as a Senior Area Chair for EMNLP 2025
[04.2025] Check out our SemEval 2025 paper about LLM unlearning

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Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2024-present
Postdoc, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2023-2024
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California Los Angeles, 2018-2023
M.S., Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2014-2016
B.S., Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2010-2014

Awards

Google Research Scholar Award, 2025
Area Chair Award, ACL 2023
Thesis Honorable Mention Award, Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence, 2016
Fourth Place, KDD Cup 2015, 2015
Second Place, ICASSP Signal Processing Cup, 2014
First Place, Track 1 of KDD Cup 2013, 2013
First Place, Track 2 of KDD Cup 2013, 2013

Services

Senior Area Chair
- EMNLP (2025)
Area Chair
- ACL Rolling Review (2024-2025), ACL (2024-2025), EMNLP (2024), NAACL (2025), EACL (2026), NeurIPS (2025), ICLR (2026)
Conference Program Committee/Reviewer
- ACL Rolling Review (2021-2023), ACL (2021-2023), EMNLP (2021-2023), NAACL (2022-2024), EACL (2023-2024), COLM (2024-2025), ICML (2020-2025), NeurIPS (2021-2024), ICLR (2021-2025), AAAI (2022-2025)
Journal Reviewer
- Transactions on Machine Learning Research (2024-2025), Computational Linguistics (2025)
Handbook Assistant
- EMNLP (2018)