Kaiwen Zhou
Scholar

Kaiwen Zhou

Google Scholar ID: FbzTX04AAAAJ
PhD candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz
AI agentsmulti-modalAI safety
Citations & Impact
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Citations
326
 
H-index
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Publications
15
 
Co-authors
28
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • First-author paper 'SafeKey' accepted by EMNLP 2025
  • First-author paper 'The Hidden Risks of Large Reasoning Models: A Safety Assessment of R1' accepted by IJCNLP-AACL 2025
  • Co-first-author paper 'Multimodal Situational Safety' accepted by ICLR 2025; Oral presentation at NeurIPS RBFM Workshop 2024
  • Paper 'Navigation as the Attacker Wishes?' accepted by NAACL 2024
  • First-author paper 'ESC' accepted by ICML 2023
  • Paper 'FedVLN' accepted by ECCV 2022
  • Two papers accepted by ACL 2024 ('ViCor' as first author; 'Multipanel VQA' as co-author)
  • Awarded UCSC Dissertation-Year Fellowship (2025)
  • Invited talk at Microsoft on safety reasoning (2025)
Research Experience
  • Research Intern at Microsoft (Summer 2025)
  • Research Intern at Honda Research Institute (Spring & Summer 2023)
  • Research Intern at Samsung AI Center (Summer 2022)
  • Team SlugJARVIS won 3rd place in Amazon Alexa SimBot Challenge (2023)
  • Ranked No.1 in Alexa Prize SimBot Public Benchmark Challenge (2022)