Yuhang Chen

PhD Student in Computer Science · UNC Chapel Hill

I am a first-year CS PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, advised by Prof. Tianlong Chen. Previously, I obtained my B.Eng. from Wuhan University, where I was advised by Prof. Mang Ye.

My research goal is to build reliable and generalizable foundation models for scientific and cross-domain intelligence. Specifically, I work on Embodied AI, AI4Science, and Trustworthy AI, leveraging techniques such as Diffusion, Reinforcement Learning, and Environment & Data Synthesis to develop systems that are robust under real-world faults, adversarial conditions, and novel scientific domains.

News

Apr 2026 I will give an invited talk at the UNC Workshop on Explainable Multi-Modal Hypergraph Learning for Gene Pathway Discovery on April 21. Details coming soon.
Mar 2026 One paper on GPU Rowhammer attacks accepted to S&P 2026. News
Jan 2026 One paper on biological reasoning accepted to ICLR 2026.
Sep 2025 Two papers accepted to EMNLP 2025, including one Oral Presentation.
Sep 2025 One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2025 Datasets & Benchmarks Track.
Aug 2025 Started PhD at UNC Chapel Hill, fortunately advised by Prof. Tianlong Chen.
May 2025 One paper accepted to ACL 2025 Findings.
Feb 2024 First paper accepted to CVPR 2024.

Publications

* denotes equal contribution

CellDuality: Unlocking Biological Reasoning in LLMs with Self-Supervised RLVR

Yuhang Chen, Zhen Tan, Ruichen Zhang, Mufan Qiu, Tianlong Chen

ICLR 2026 Paper

GDDR: Greatly Disturbing DRAM Rows — Cross-Component Rowhammer Attacks from Modern GPUs

Yichang Hu, Noah Brown, Yuhang Chen, Joshua Bakita, Tianlong Chen, Daniel Genkin, Andrew Kwong

S&P 2026 Paper

EQA-RM: A Generative Embodied Reward Model with Test-time Scaling

Yuhang Chen, Zhen Tan, Tianlong Chen

EMNLP 2025 Oral Paper

Bit-Flip Error Resilience in LLMs: A Comprehensive Analysis and Defense Framework

Yuhang Chen, Zhen Tan, Ajay Jaiswal, Huaizhi Qu, Xinyu Zhao, Qi Lin, Yu Cheng, Andrew Kwong, Zhichao Cao, Tianlong Chen

EMNLP 2025 Paper

IndustryEQA: Pushing the Frontiers of Embodied Question Answering in Industrial Scenarios

Yifan Li*, Yuhang Chen*, Anh Dao*, Lichi Li, Zhongyi Cai, Zhen Tan, Tianlong Chen, Yu Kong

NeurIPS 2025 D&B Track Paper

Spatial Coordinates as a Cell Language: A Multi-Sentence Framework for Imaging Mass Cytometry Analysis

Chi Jane Chen*, Yuhang Chen*, Sukwon Yun*, Natalie Stanley, Tianlong Chen

ACL 2025 Findings Paper

Fair Federated Learning under Domain Skew with Local Consistency and Domain Diversity

Yuhang Chen*, Wenke Huang*, Mang Ye

CVPR 2024 Paper

Towards Generalization Fairness in Federated Learning

Mang Ye, Yuhang Chen, Wenke Huang, Hui Cai, Laizhong Cui

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Paper

Education

2025.08 - Present Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, PhD.

2021.09 - 2025.06 School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, B.Eng.

Misc

I am from Wenzhou, China, and I deeply love my hometown. Outside of research, I play bass and am a huge fan of Wu Bai (伍佰) & China Blue. I expect to join or start a band. I also enjoy road cycling, and Chapel Hill is a great place for climbing. I love cooking, especially classic Chinese cuisine.