Nancy Lau

PhD student, University of California, Santa Cruz

Joined

January 2026

Names

Nancy Lau (Preferred)

Emails

****@ucsc.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

University of California, Santa Cruz (ucsc.edu)

2024 – Present

Undergrad student

University of California, Santa Cruz (ucsc.edu)

2021 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Alvaro A. Cardenas

2024 – Present

Expertise

AI Safety

2025 – Present

Publications

Knowing When to \texttt{STOP}, \texttt{RECOVER}, and \texttt{SEARCH} \\ A Modular Framework for GUI Automation
Qijun Han, Haoqin Tu, Zijun Wang, Haoyue Dai, Yiyang Zhou, Nancy Lau, Alvaro A. Cardenas, Yuhui Xu, Ran Xu, Caiming Xiong, Zeyu Zheng, Huaxiu Yao, Yuyin Zhou, Cihang Xie
- ICML 2026 AIWILD
- Readers: Everyone
Chasing the Public Score: User Pressure and Evaluation Exploitation in Coding Agent Workflows
Hardy Chen, Nancy Lau, Haoqin Tu, Shuo Yan, Xiangyan Liu, Zijun Wang, Juncheng Wu, Michael Qizhe Shieh, Cihang Xie, Yuyin Zhou
- ICML 2026 AIWILD
- Readers: Everyone
Chasing the Public Score: User Pressure and Evaluation Exploitation in Coding Agent Workflows
Hardy Chen, Nancy Lau, Haoqin Tu, Shuo Yan, Xiangyan Liu, Zijun Wang, Juncheng Wu, Michael Qizhe Shieh, Alvaro A. Cardenas, Cihang Xie, Yuyin Zhou
- AgentSkills 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
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

Co-Authors

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