Kellin Pelrine

Researcher, FAR.AI

Joined

November 2021

Names

Kellin Pelrine (Preferred)

Emails

****@mila.quebec (Confirmed)

,

****@mail.mcgill.ca

,

****@far.ai (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Semantic Scholar

Career & Education History

Researcher

FAR.AI (far.ai)

2025 – 2035

PhD student

School of Computer Science, McGill University (mcgill.ca)

2020 – 2025

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Reihaneh Rabbany

2020 – 2025

PhD Advisor

Jean-François Godbout

2020 – 2025

Expertise

Generative agents

,

LLMs

,

simulation

,

digital twin

,

copilot

,

tutor

,

web search

2023 – Present

AI Safety

,

LLMs

,

persuasion

,

manipulation

,

jailbreaks

,

robustness

2023 – Present

Publications

TamperBench: A Systematic Framework to Stress-Test LLM Safety Under Fine-Tuning and Tampering
Saad Hossain, Tom Tseng, Punya Syon Pandey, Samanvay Vajpayee, Matthew Kowal, Nayeema Nonta, Samuel Simko, Stephen Casper, Zhijing Jin, Kellin Pelrine, Sirisha Rambhatla
- ICLR 2026 Workshop RSI ShortPaper
- Readers: Everyone
TamperBench: A Systematic Framework to Stress-Test LLM Safety Under Fine-Tuning and Tampering
Saad Hossain, Tom Tseng, Punya Syon Pandey, Samanvay Vajpayee, Matthew Kowal, Nayeema Nonta, Samuel Simko, Stephen Casper, Zhijing Jin, Kellin Pelrine, Sirisha Rambhatla
- CAO Poster
- Readers: Everyone
TamperBench: A Systematic Framework to Stress-Test LLM Safety Under Fine-Tuning and Tampering
Saad Hossain, Tom Tseng, Punya Syon Pandey, Samanvay Vajpayee, Nayeema Nonta, Matthew Kowal, Samuel Simko, Stephen Casper, Zhijing Jin, Kellin Pelrine, Sirisha Rambhatla
- ICLR 2026 AIWILD
- Readers: Everyone
Open Technical Problems in Open-Weight AI Model Risk Management
Stephen Casper, Kyle O'Brien, Shayne Longpre, Elizabeth Seger, Kevin Klyman, Rishi Bommasani, Aniruddha Nrusimha, Ilia Shumailov, Sören Mindermann, Steven Basart, Frank Rudzicz, Kellin Pelrine, Avijit Ghosh, Andrew Strait, Robert Kirk, Dan Hendrycks, Peter Henderson, J Zico Kolter, Geoffrey Irving, Yarin Gal et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
It's the Thought that Counts: Evaluating the Attempts of Frontier LLMs to Persuade on Harmful Topics
Matthew Kowal, Jasper Timm, Jean-François Godbout, Thomas Costello, Antonio A. Arechar, Gordon Pennycook, David Rand, Adam Gleave, Kellin Pelrine
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Accidental Vulnerability: Factors in Fine-Tuning that Shift Model Safeguards
Punya Syon Pandey, Samuel Simko, Kellin Pelrine, Zhijing Jin
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
TamperBench: Systematically Stress-Testing LLM Safety Under Fine-Tuning and Tampering
Saad Hossain, Tom Tseng, Punya Syon Pandey, Samanvay Vajpayee, Nayeema Nonta, Matthew Kowal, Samuel Simko, Stephen Casper, Zhijing Jin, Kellin Pelrine, Sirisha Rambhatla
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
CrediBench : Building Web-Scale Network Datasets for Information Integrity
Emma Kondrup, Sebastian Sabry, Hussein Abdallah, Zachary Yang, James Zhou, Kellin Pelrine, Jean-François Godbout, Michael M. Bronstein, Reihaneh Rabbany, Shenyang Huang
- NPGML Poster
- Readers: Everyone
TRUTH: Teaching LLMs to Rerank for Truth in Misinformation Detection
Hao Yu, Shenyang Huang, Zachary Yang, Maximilian Puelma Touzel, Kellin Pelrine, Jean-François Godbout, Reihaneh Rabbany
- COLM 2025 Workshop SoLaR Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Accidental Vulnerability: Factors in Fine-Tuning that Shift Model Safeguards
Punya Syon Pandey, Samuel Simko, Kellin Pelrine, Zhijing Jin
- COLM 2025 Workshop SoLaR Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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