Daniel Kang

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

Joined

October 2017

Names

Daniel Kang

Emails

****@stanford.edu (Confirmed)

****@cs.stanford.edu (Confirmed)

****@illinois.edu (Confirmed)

****@g.illinois.edu (Confirmed)

****@berkeley.edu

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science (cs.illinois.edu)

2023 – 2030

Postdoc

University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

2022 – 2023

PhD student

Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2016 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Matei Zaharia

Present

PhD Advisor

Peter Bailis

Present

Postdoc Advisor

Ion Stoica

Present

PhD Advisee

Yuxuan Zhu

Present

PhD Advisee

Chuxuan Hu

Present

Expertise

AI and cybersecurity

2023 – Present

Publications

SafeSearch: Do Not Trade Safety for Utility in LLM Search Agents
Joo-Kyung Kim, Qiusi Zhan, Angeline Budiman-Chan, Abdelrahman Zayed, Xingzhi Guo, Daniel Kang
- EACL Findings
- Readers: Everyone
Measuring Agents in Production
Melissa Pan, Negar Arabzadeh, Riccardo Cogo, Yuxuan Zhu, Alexander Xiong, Lakshya A Agrawal, Huanzhi Mao, Emma Shen, Sid Pallerla, Liana Patel, Shu Liu, Tianneng Shi, Xiaoyuan Liu, Jared Quincy Davis, Emmanuele Lacavalla, Alessandro Basile, Shuyi Yang, Paul Castro, Daniel Kang, Koushik Sen et al. (5 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 AIWILD
- Readers: Everyone
Measuring Agents in Production
Melissa Pan, Negar Arabzadeh, Riccardo Cogo, Yuxuan Zhu, Alexander Xiong, Lakshya A Agrawal, Huanzhi Mao, Emma Shen, Sid Pallerla, Liana Patel, Shu Liu, Tianneng Shi, Xiaoyuan Liu, Jared Quincy Davis, Emmanuele Lacavalla, Alessandro Basile, Shuyi Yang, Paul Castro, Daniel Kang, Koushik Sen et al. (5 additional authors not shown)
- Agentic AI in the Wild: From Hallucinations to Reliable Autonomy Poster
- Readers: Everyone
MM-PoisonRAG: Disrupting Multimodal RAG with Local and Global Knowledge Poisoning Attacks
Hyeonjeong Ha, Qiusi Zhan, Jeonghwan Kim, Dimitrios Bralios, Saikrishna sanniboina, Nanyun Peng, Kai-Wei Chang, Daniel Kang, Heng Ji
- ICLR 2026 Trustworthy AI
- Readers: Everyone
Establishing Best Practices for Building Rigorous Agentic Benchmarks
Yuxuan Zhu, Tengjun Jin, Yada Pruksachatkun, Andy K Zhang, Shu Liu, Sasha Cui, Sayash Kapoor, Shayne Longpre, Kevin Meng, Rebecca Weiss, Fazl Barez, Rahul Gupta, Jwala Dhamala, Jacob Merizian, Mario Giulianelli, Harry Coppock, Cozmin Ududec, Jasjeet S Sekhon, Jacob Steinhardt, Antony Kellermann et al. (5 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Chart2CSV: Can VLMs Faithfully Convert Complex Charts into Structured Tables?
Chuxuan Hu, Liyun Zhang, Yeji Lim, Aum Wadhwani, Daniel Kang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Breaking Barriers: Do Reinforcement Post Training Gains Transfer To Unseen Domains?
Chuxuan Hu, Yuxuan Zhu, Antony Kellermann, Caleb Biddulph, Suppakit Waiwitlikhit, Jason Benn, Daniel Kang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
BEAT: Visual Backdoor Attacks on VLM-based Embodied Agents via Contrastive Trigger Learning
Qiusi Zhan, Hyeonjeong Ha, Rui Yang, Sirui Xu, Hanyang Chen, Liangyan Gui, Yu-Xiong Wang, Huan Zhang, Heng Ji, Daniel Kang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
MM-PoisonRAG: Disrupting Multimodal RAG with Local and Global Knowledge Poisoning Attacks
Hyeonjeong Ha, Qiusi Zhan, Jeonghwan Kim, Dimitrios Bralios, Saikrishna sanniboina, Nanyun Peng, Kai-Wei Chang, Daniel Kang, Heng Ji
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Holistic Agent Leaderboard: The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agent Evaluation
Sayash Kapoor, Benedikt Stroebl, Peter Kirgis, Nitya Nadgir, Zachary S Siegel, Boyi Wei, Tianci Xue, Ziru Chen, Felix Chen, Saiteja Utpala, Franck Ndzomga, Dheeraj Oruganty, Sophie Luskin, Kangheng Liu, Botao Yu, Amit Arora, Dongyoon Hahm, Harsh Trivedi, Huan Sun, Juyong Lee et al. (11 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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