Hi there!😊 I’m Kairan Dou, welcome to my personal website! Feel free to just call me Kevin. I am a junior undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science at Nankai University, currently an exchange student in the University of California, Berkeley. Since February 2025, I have been a Research Assistant at The University of Texas at Austin, working under the guidance of Prof. Philipp Krähenbühl, focusing on multimodal learning. Previously, I have conducted extensive research at the Visual Computing and Intelligent Perception(VCIP) Lab under the guidance of Prof. Xiang Li.
My current research interests lie in:
- Reinforcement learning for stability and alignment in VLA models
- RL-augmented language model search and semantic retrieval
- Enhancing few-shot and zero-shot generalization in embodied agents
My broader goal is to establish scalable, unified post-training frameworks for embodied multi-modal agents, enabling both fine-grained reasoning and embodied decision-making through unified learning signals.
If you would like to connect further, feel free to contact me via email.
You can also reach me on WeChat at: Darkeyes-
🔥 News
- 2025.05: 🎉🎉 I finished my new paper.
- 2025.02: 🎉🎉 I delivered an oral presentation at AAAI 2025 in Philadelphia.
- 2025.01: 🎉🎉 I arrived in Berkeley and commenced my exchange program.
- 2024.12: 🎉🎉 Our paper was accepted at AAAI 2025.
📝 Publications
From Words to Worth: Newborn Article Impact Prediction with LLM
Penghai Zhao, Xinghua Xing, Kairan Dou, Jinyu Tian, Ying Tai, Jian Yang, Ming-Ming Cheng, Xiang Li
- Proposed the “Newborn Article Impact Prediction” (Newborn AIP) task and introduced the TNCSIsp metric, achieving an NDCG@20 score of 0.901.
- Constructed TKPD and NAID datasets, including over 12,000 samples for training and validation.
- Used LoRA to fine-tune and test 5+ large language models on server to evaluate prediction performance.
- Authored and finalized sections of the paper, ensuring academic writing standards.
📖 Educations
- 09/2022-06/2026, B.Eng. in Computer Science, Nankai University.
- 01/2025-05/2025, Exchange Student, University of California, Berkeley.
💻 Internships
- 2025.02 - present, Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin, United States.
- 2024.06 - 2025.02, VCIP Lab, Nankai University, China.
- 2024.06 - 2024.09, Chinasoft International Co., Ltd., China.
💬 Projects
JobForce.AI
LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Platform for Job Seekers
Kairan Dou, Mingxi Tang , Yiya You, Yufeng Yan
- End-to-end LLM-powered pipeline automates both resume rewriting and job matching in a single workflow.
- Context-aware resume optimization tailors each experience using representative job descriptions and LLM-generated language.
- Semantic embedding–driven selection ranks and condenses content based on normalized cosine similarity for maximum relevance.
- Real-time, personalized job recommendations match optimized resumes against live postings filtered by user preferences.
- Quantitative alignment evaluation delivers a clear 100-point score and visual feedback on resume–JD fit improvements.
- 2024.06 - 2025.02, Development of the AI for Research Service App, an automated arXiv paper selection platform that utilizes algorithms to provide users with the latest curated arXiv paper summaries and explanations.
- 2024.11, Developed agent using retrieval-augmented generation system for detecting and evaluating open-source code in arXiv papers, leveraging GitHub APIs and abstract syntax tree similarity algorithms. <!– - 2024.10, Agent-based technology for automatic author disambiguation and information generation.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2024.08 Awarded Outstanding Individual for contributions to Chinasoft International Co., Ltd.
- 2024.02 Honorable Mention, Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) –>
💡 Patents
- Patent pending: Agent-based retrieval-augmented generation system for detecting and evaluating open-source code in arXiv papers, utilizing GitHub APIs and abstract syntax tree similarity algorithms.
🏃♂️ Hobbies
- 🏸 Badminton: Played for approximately five years; member of the college team.
- 🎸 Guitar: Served as the vice president of the Guitar Club.
- 🎤 Singing: Recognized as one of the top ten singers in the college.