About Me

I am a master’s student in Computer Engineering with a specialization in AI & ML at Northwestern University. I have the privilege to be advised by Prof. Manling Li at Northwestern University, Prof. Yuchen Yang and Prof. Dongwon Lee at Penn State University, and Prof. Jiahao Yu at NYU Abu Dhabi. I am fortunate to collaborate closely with Canyu Chen.

My research interests cover Multimodality, Trustworthiness, and Machine Learning.

I am currently looking for PhD positions starting 2027.

Publications

Fairness Failure Modes of Multimodal LLMs

Canyu Chen^*, Anglin Cai^*, Joan Nwatu, Yale Li, Jessica Hullman, Rada Mihalcea, Kathleen McKeown, Manling Li (* equal contribution)

NeurIPS 2026. TrustNLP@ACL 2026, Oral

[paper] [pdf] [code]

Best Paper Award in the ACL 2026 Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing

A Plausible Explanation Is Enough to Mislead Multimodal Judges

Anglin Cai, Zhiqi Wang, Xiaozhi Yang, Yurun Lin, Dongwon Lee, Yuchen Yang

In submission

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Education

Experience

Awards

• Best Paper Award, ACL 2026 Workshop on Trustworthy NLP (TrustNLP), 2026
• NeurIPS 2026 Travel Award, 2026

Misc

Outside research, I enjoy jogging and have completed the Haidian Marathon (2024) and half marathons in Tangshan and Tianjin (2023). The St. Louis Marathon (2027) is next on my list.