Learning to poison large language models for downstream manipulation

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Wayne State University, advised by Prof. Dongxiao Zhu in the Trustworthy AI Lab. My research focuses on trustworthy AI: making AI systems robust and aligned so they can be deployed safely.

I work across large language models (LLMs), large reasoning models (LRMs), and agentic AI, spanning safety alignment, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, in-context learning, and machine unlearning. My work has been published at venues including NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, and AAAI (oral). In industry, I worked on generative retrieval as an AI/ML engineer intern at LinkedIn.

I am always happy to connect with others working on trustworthy AI. Feel free to reach out!