Batu El

PhD student, ICME, Stanford University

Joined

June 2024

Names

Batu El (Preferred)

Emails

****@stanford.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

ICME, Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2024 – 2030

MS student

Computer Science, University of Cambridge (cam.ac.uk)

2023 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

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Publications

Position: AI Development Should Prioritize Cognitive Security
Batu El, Shiye Su, Aneesh Pappu, Peggy Yin, Julie Heng, Eric Heng, Ryan Z Wang, Andreas Haupt, James Zou
- ICLR 2026 AIWILD
- Readers: Everyone
Cost-of-Pass: An Economic Framework for Evaluating Language Models
Mehmet Hamza Erol, Batu El, Mirac Suzgun, Mert Yuksekgonul, James Zou
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Moloch's Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audience Success
Batu El, James Zou
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Inefficiencies of Meta Agents for Agent Design
Batu El, Mert Yuksekgonul, James Zou
- ICML 2025 Workshop PRAL
- Readers: Everyone
Towards Mechanistic Interpretability of Graph Transformers via Attention Graphs
Batu El, Deepro Choudhury, Pietro Lio, Chaitanya K. Joshi
- ICLR 2025 Workshop XAI4Science
- Readers: Everyone

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