--- title: "Daniel Kang — author profile and papers · Text generation" description: "Daniel Kang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2024), h-index 23 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-kang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-kang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Daniel Kang # Daniel Kang Daniel Kang has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2024, most of them on [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/); often with [Tatsunori Hashimoto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tatsunori-hashimoto/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5072348548) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9860-9938) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59748454) · [**h-index 23**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5072348548) · [70 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5072348548) · [2,154 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5072348548&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-kang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 140 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-kang/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4118](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/42/#star-4118) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Daniel+Kang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Daniel+Kang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Daniel+Kang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Daniel+Kang) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2022–2026 · 39 papersEmployment since 2023 · Assistant Professor, Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2016–2024 · 19 papersEducation 2016–2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2011–2017 · 5 papersEducation 2011–2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 2016–2017 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2022–2023Employment 2022–2023 · Postdoc, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2015–2016Education 2015–2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper InjecAgent: Benchmarking Indirect Prompt Injections in Tool-Integrated Large Language Model Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhan-2024-injecagent-benchmarking-indirect-prompt-injections/) · [**2020** 1 paper Improved Natural Language Generation via Loss Truncation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kang-2020-improved-natural-language-generation-loss/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[InjecAgent: Benchmarking Indirect Prompt Injections in Tool-Integrated Large Language Model Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhan-2024-injecagent-benchmarking-indirect-prompt-injections/)** *(2024 · 187 citations)* LLM agents that call tools often read outside content such as emails, reviews, notes or web pages. An attacker can plant instructions in that content to steer the agent against its own user. This is called indirect prompt injection (IPI). InjecAgent is presented as the first benchmark that measures how vulnerable… 2. **[Improved Natural Language Generation via Loss Truncation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kang-2020-improved-natural-language-generation-loss/)** *(2020 · 129 citations)* Conditional text generators are usually trained with log loss (KL divergence). This objective forces the model to cover every reference in the training set, so a small share of noisy or invalid targets can distort what it learns. Examples include titles containing facts absent from the source. Kang and Hashimoto… ## All works 6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[InjecAgent: Benchmarking Indirect Prompt Injections in Tool-Integrated Large Language Model Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhan-2024-injecagent-benchmarking-indirect-prompt-injections/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Qiusi Zhan, Zhixiang Liang, Zifan Ying, et al.*2024 · 187 citations* 2. **[Improved Natural Language Generation via Loss Truncation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kang-2020-improved-natural-language-generation-loss/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Daniel Kang, Tatsunori B. Hashimoto*2020 · 129 citations* 3. **[Teams of LLM Agents can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.2/) Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Yuxuan Zhu et al.*2026 · 16 citations* 4. **[Dias: Dynamic Rewriting of Pandas Code](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16146) arXiv:2303.16146 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Stefanos Baziotis, Daniel Kang, Charith Mendis*2024 · 9 citations* 5. **[Holistic Agent Leaderboard: The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agent Evaluation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11977) arXiv:2510.11977 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Sayash Kapoor et al.*2025 · 8 citations* 6. **[SafeSearch: Do Not Trade Safety for Utility in LLM Search Agents](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-eacl.146/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Qiusi Zhan et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Tatsunori Hashimoto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tatsunori-hashimoto/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2020/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2024/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026 - Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 140 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-kang/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026