- Organizer: NeurIPS 2024 Competition, CLAS: The Competition for LLM and Agent Safety; NeurIPS 2023 Competition, Trojan Detection Challenge 2023 (LLM Edition)
- Student Advisory Board Member of ACTION NSF AI Institute, 2023 - Current
Research Experience
- Snowflake AI, Research Intern, Sept. 2025 - Current
- Microsoft Research, Research Intern, June 2025 - Sept. 2025
- Amazon, Applied Scientist Intern, June 2024 - Sept. 2024
- Intel AI, Machine Learning Engineer Intern, Mar. 2022 - June 2022
Education
- University of Washington, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D. Student, 2022 - present
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, B.S. in Electrical Engineering (with highest honor), Minor in Computer Science, 2018 - 2022
- Zhejiang University, B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering, 2018 - 2022
Background
Currently a 4th-year Ph.D. student at the University of Washington under the supervision of Prof. Radha Poovendran. Also works with Prof. Luyao Niu and Prof. Bill Yuchen Lin at UW, as well as with Prof. Bo Li at UIUC and Prof. Zhen Xiang at the University of Georgia. Research interests lie in building better AGI systems, with recent focus on LLM/Agent/LMM, covering post-training & alignment, safety & security, reinforcement learning, agentic training, reasoning, and data synthesis. Additionally, has worked on Machine Learning Security and Federated Learning.