About me

Hi there! I am Xuran Zheng, a 2nd-year M.S. student in the School of Electrical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST). I am working with Prof. Chang D. Yoo as part of U-AIM Lab. My research interests mainly lie in Large Language Model Alignment and Security.

I received my B.Eng. degree with honors from Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 2024. Prior to that, I was a research intern at HIT IIHCI Lab, advised by Prof. Shaohui Liu.

Experiences

• Harbin Institute of Technology
  Reserach Intern, Intelligent Interface and Human-Computer Interaction (IIHCI) Lab
  Feb. 2024 - Jun. 2024
  Advisor: Shaohui Liu
• Chongqing Research Institute of Harbin Institute of Technology
  R&D Intern, Frontend & DDS Group
  Jan 2024 - May 2024
  Advisor: Guoxin Wu
• Chinese Academy of Sciences
  Reserach Intern, Machine Vision and Pattern Recognition (MVPR) Lab
  May 2023 - Oct 2023
  Advisors: Xian Wei, Peidong Liang

Projects

• Development of AI–based decision support system for selecting dialysis methods
  (Seoul National University Bundang Hospital)
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• [N01250100] Development of AI applications that understand causal relationships via video understanding and reinforcement learning
  (Korea Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation)
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• [N01250813] Development of flexibly evolving AI technologies to keep pace with increasingly strengthened ethical policies
  (Korea Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation)
  (research content)
  
• [N01240559] Development of a multimodal dialogue system that supports continual learning and video-retrieval based causal inference
  (National Research Foundation of Korea)
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Publications

[1] DriVLM: Domain Adaptation of Vision-Language Models in Autonomous Driving
Xuran Zheng, Chang D. Yoo
37th Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding (IPIU 2025) [ArXiv]

Awards & Honors

• KAIST Scholarship and KAIST Global Presidential Scholarship for M.S. students (~70,000 USD)
  
• Outstanding BS Thesis Award (3/480, 0.6%)
  
• 2023 KAIST EE Camp Travel Grant (77/6286, 1.2%)
  
• People’s Scholarship of China (~10%)
  

Education

Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)
Aug 2024 - Aug 2026 (expected)
M.S. in School of Electrical Engineering

Harbin Institute of Technology
Aug 2020 - Jul 2024
B.Eng. in School of Computing, GPA: 88.4/100, Outstanding BS Thesis (0.6%)

Misc.

• Chinese: native; English: C1 (IELTS 7.0); Korean: beginner (104th TOPIK preparing)