Scholar
Zhen Xiong
Google Scholar ID: jRhm61IAAAAJ
University of Southern California
Citations & Impact
Citations
28
H-index
4
i10-index
0
Publications
11
Co-authors
6
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Publications:
- * "Mapping the Minds of LLMs: A Graph-Based Analysis of Reasoning LLM", EMNLP 2025
- * "Enhancing Image Generation Fidelity via Progressive Prompts", ICASSP 2025
- * "TAGExplainer: Narrating Graph Explanations for Text-Attributed Graph Learning Models", ACL 2025
- * "Texture or Semantics? Vision-Language Models Get Lost in Font Recognition", COLM 2025
- * "Vulnerability of LLMs to Vertically Aligned Text Manipulations", ACL 2025
- - Preprints:
- * "Thinking with Sound: Audio Chain-of-Thought Enables Multimodal Reasoning in Large Audio-Language Models", arXiv:2509.21749
- * "Unveiling the Potential of Diffusion Large Language Model in Controllable Generation", arXiv:2507.04504
- * "Advancing Img2LaTeX Conversion via Visual Reasoning with Attention-Guided Refinement", arXiv:2507.20890
- * "Generalist Scanner Meets Specialist Locator: A Synergistic Coarse-to-Fine Framework for Robust GUI Grounding", arXiv:2509.24133
- * "Enhancing LLM Character-Level Manipulation via Divide and Conquer", arXiv:2502.08180
- - Awards & Honors:
- * National Scholarship, 2021
- * Renming Scholarship (Top University Scholarship), 2021, 2022, 2023
- * 1st Prize, Mathematics Competition of Chinese College Students, 2022
- * 1st Prize, University Competitive Programming Contest, 2022
- * 2nd Prize, Beijing College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition, 2022
- * University Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, 2021, 2022, 2023
Research Experience
- - Currently conducting research on Large Language Models at the University of Southern California
Education
- - University of Southern California, Master of Science in Computer Science, Jan. 2025 – Present, GPA: 3.92/4.00
- - University of California, Irvine, Joint Undergraduate Education Program, Sept. 2023 – Jun. 2024, GPA: 4.00/4.00
- - Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, Sept. 2020 – Jul. 2023, GPA: 93.86/100, Ranked: 1/161
Background
- - Research Interests: Large Language Models (LLMs) and their interpretability, controllability, and applications
- - Professional Fields: Multimodal Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision
- - Brief Introduction: Second-year graduate student at the University of Southern California, planning to apply for Fall 2026 PhD programs
