Dan Zhao

Researcher, New York University

Joined

May 2022

Names

Dan Zhao (Preferred)

Emails

****@nyu.edu (Confirmed)

****@aya.yale.edu (Confirmed)

****@mit.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

New York University (nyu.edu)

2021 – 2026

Researcher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

2021 – 2023

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Publications

ZeroDayBench: Evaluating LLM Agents on Unseen Zero-Day Vulnerabilities for Cyberdefense
Nancy Lau, Louis Sloot, Jyoutir Raj, Evan Harris, Giuseppe Marco Boscardin, Dan Zhao, Dylan Bowman, Mario Brajkovski, Jaideep Singh Chawla
- ICLR 2026 AIWILD
- Readers: Everyone
WINA: Weight Informed Neuron Activation for Accelerating Large Language Model Inference
Sihan Chen, Dan Zhao, Jongwoo Ko, Colby Banbury, Huiping Zhuang, Luming Liang, Pashmina Cameron, Tianyi Chen
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
The Challenge of Teaching Reasoning to LLMs Without RL or Distillation
Wei Du, Branislav Kisacanin, George Armstrong, Shubham Toshniwal, Ivan Moshkov, Alexan Ayrapetyan, Sadegh Mahdavi, Dan Zhao, Shizhe Diao, Dragan Mašulović, Advaith Avadhanam, Max Wang, Shitij Govil, Sri Yanamandra, Mihir Tandon, Sriram Ananthakrishnan, Vedant Rathi, David Zhang, Joonseok Kang, Leon Luo et al. (4 additional authors not shown)
- AI4Math@ICML25 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
WINA: Weight Informed Neuron Activation for Accelerating Large Language Model Inference
Sihan Chen, Dan Zhao, Jongwoo Ko, Colby Banbury, Huiping Zhuang, Luming Liang, Tianyi Chen
- ES-FoMo III
- Readers: Everyone
Windows Agent Arena: Evaluating Multi-Modal OS Agents at Scale
Rogerio Bonatti, Dan Zhao, Francesco Bonacci, Dillon Dupont, Sara Abdali, Yinheng Li, Yadong Lu, Justin Wagle, Kazuhito Koishida, Arthur Bucker, Lawrence Keunho Jang, Zheng Hui
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Layer by Layer: Uncovering Hidden Representations in Language Models
Oscar Skean, Md Rifat Arefin, Dan Zhao, Niket Nikul Patel, Jalal Naghiyev, Yann LeCun, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv
- ICML 2025 oral
- Readers: Everyone
Simulation System Towards Solving Societal-Scale Manipulation
Maximilian Puelma Touzel, Sneheel Sarangi, Austin Welch, Gayatri K, Dan Zhao, Zachary Yang, Hao Yu, Tom Gibbs, Ethan Kosak-Hine, Andreea Musulan, Camille Thibault, Busra Tugce Gurbuz, Reihaneh Rabbany, Jean-François Godbout, Kellin Pelrine
- SafeGenAi Poster
- Readers: Everyone
VideoWebArena: Evaluating Long Context Multimodal Agents with Video Understanding Web Tasks
Lawrence Keunho Jang, Yinheng Li, Dan Zhao, Charles Ding, Justin Lin, Paul Pu Liang, Rogerio Bonatti, Kazuhito Koishida
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Windows Agent Arena: Evaluating Multi-Modal OS Agents at Scale
Rogerio Bonatti, Dan Zhao, Francesco Bonacci, Dillon Dupont, Sara Abdali, Yinheng Li, Yadong Lu, Justin Wagle, Kazuhito Koishida, Arthur Bucker, Lawrence Keunho Jang, Zheng Hui
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
VideoWebArena: Evaluating Long Context Multimodal Agents with Video Understanding Web Tasks
Lawrence Keunho Jang, Yinheng Li, Charles Ding, Justin Lin, Paul Pu Liang, Dan Zhao, Rogerio Bonatti, Kazuhito Koishida
- NeurIPS 2024 Workshop Open-World Agents Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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