Selected Works 2026 Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Diancheng Kang*, Zheyuan Liu*, Ningshan Ma, Yue Huang, Zhaoxuan Tan, Meng Jiang arXiv preprint arXiv 2026 Question-in-the-Loop: Interleaved Query Tokens as Visual Summarizers for Video LLMs Diancheng Kang*, Zehai Niu*, Jiayi Lyu, Haochen Wang, Linlin Shen, Jinbao Wang, Xiaoyu Qin ACM Multimedia 2026 * Equal contribution.
2026 Prompt-Activation Duality: Improving Activation Steering via Attention-Level Interventions Diancheng Kang*, Zheyuan Liu*, Ningshan Ma, Yue Huang, Zhaoxuan Tan, Meng Jiang arXiv preprint arXiv
2026 Question-in-the-Loop: Interleaved Query Tokens as Visual Summarizers for Video LLMs Diancheng Kang*, Zehai Niu*, Jiayi Lyu, Haochen Wang, Linlin Shen, Jinbao Wang, Xiaoyu Qin ACM Multimedia 2026
Experiences The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, USA Remote research intern Jun 2026 – Present with Prof. Tianlong Chen and Prof. Zhen Tan Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen, China B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology Jul 2022 – Jul 2026 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN, USA Research collaborator Feb 2026 – May 2026 with Ph.D. candidate Zheyuan Liu and Prof. Jiang Meng Tsinghua University Beijing, China Remote research assistant May 2025 – Feb 2026 with Dr. Xiaoyu Qin
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, USA Remote research intern Jun 2026 – Present with Prof. Tianlong Chen and Prof. Zhen Tan
Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen, China B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology Jul 2022 – Jul 2026
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN, USA Research collaborator Feb 2026 – May 2026 with Ph.D. candidate Zheyuan Liu and Prof. Jiang Meng
