Yawen Duan

Researcher, Concordia AI

Joined

February 2020

Names

Yawen Duan (Preferred)

Emails

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****@hku.hk (Confirmed)

****@cam.ac.uk (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Concordia AI (concordia-ai.com)

2023 – Present

MS student

University of Cambridge (cam.ac.uk)

2022 – 2023

Undergrad student

The University of Hong Kong (connect.hku.hk)

2016 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

MPhil Advisor

David Krueger

Present

Mentor

Adam Gleave

Present

Mentor

Hang Xu

Present

Expertise

AI Safety

2020 – Present

Deep Reinforcement Learning

2019 – 2022

Publications

AI Alignment: A Contemporary Survey
Jiaming Ji, Tianyi Qiu, Boyuan Chen, Jiayi Zhou, Borong Zhang, Donghai Hong, Hantao Lou, Kaile Wang, Yawen Duan, Zhonghao He, Lukas Vierling, Zhaowei Zhang, Fanzhi Zeng, Juntao Dai, Xuehai Pan, Hua Xu, Aidan O'Gara, Kwan Ng, Brian Tse, Jie Fu et al. (9 additional authors not shown)
- ACM Comput. Surv. 2026
- Readers: Everyone
The 2025 AI Agent Index: Documenting Technical and Safety Features of Deployed Agentic AI Systems
Leon Staufer, Kevin Feng, Kevin Wei, Luke Bailey, Yawen Duan, Mick Yang, A. Pinar Ozisik, Stephen Casper, Noam Kolt
- CoRR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
AI Deception: Risks, Dynamics, and Controls
Boyuan Chen, Sitong Fang, Jiaming Ji, Yanxu Zhu, Pengcheng Wen, Jinzhou Wu, Yingshui Tan, Boren Zheng, Mengying Yuan, Wenqi Chen, Donghai Hong, Alex Qiu, Xin Chen, Jiayi Zhou, Kaile Wang, Juntao Dai, Borong Zhang, Tianzhuo Yang, Saad Siddiqui, Isabella Duan et al. (38 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Frontier AI Risk Management Framework in Practice: A Risk Analysis Technical Report
Xiaoyang Chen, Yunhao Chen, Zeren Chen, Zhiyun Chen, Hanyun Cui, Yawen Duan, Jiaxuan Guo, Qi Guo, Xuhao Hu, Hong Huang, Lige Huang, Chunxiao Li, Juncheng Li, Qihao Lin, Dongrui Liu, Xinmin Liu, Zicheng Liu, Chaochao Lu, Xiaoya Lu, Jingjing Qu et al. (16 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Bare Minimum Mitigations for Autonomous AI Development
Joshua Clymer, Isabella Duan, Chris Cundy, Yawen Duan, Fynn Heide, Chaochao Lu, Sören Mindermann, Conor McGurk, Xudong Pan, Saad Siddiqui, Jingren Wang, Min Yang, Xianyuan Zhan
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Libra-Leaderboard: Towards Responsible AI through a Balanced Leaderboard of Safety and Capability
Haonan Li, Xudong Han, Zenan Zhai, Honglin Mu, Hao Wang, Zhenxuan Zhang, Yilin Geng, Shom Lin, Renxi Wang, Artem Shelmanov, Xiangyu Qi, Yuxia Wang, Donghai Hong, Youliang Yuan, Meng Chen, Haoqin Tu, Fajri Koto, Cong Zeng, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Rishabh Bhardwaj et al. (15 additional authors not shown)
- NAACL (System Demonstrations) 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Libra-Leaderboard: Towards Responsible AI through a Balanced Leaderboard of Safety and Capability
Haonan Li, Xudong Han, Zenan Zhai, Honglin Mu, Hao Wang, Zhenxuan Zhang, Yilin Geng, Shom Lin, Renxi Wang, Artem Shelmanov, Xiangyu Qi, Yuxia Wang, Donghai Hong, Youliang Yuan, Meng Chen, Haoqin Tu, Fajri Koto, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Cong Zeng, Rishabh Bhardwaj et al. (15 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Harms from Increasingly Agentic Algorithmic Systems
Alan Chan, Rebecca Salganik, Alva Markelius, Chris Pang, Nitarshan Rajkumar, Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, Zhonghao He, Yawen Duan, Micah Carroll, Michelle Lin, Alex Mayhew, Katherine Collins, Maryam Molamohammadi, John Burden, Wanru Zhao, Shalaleh Rismani, Konstantinos Voudouris, Umang Bhatt, Adrian Weller et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- Crossref
- Readers: Everyone
Adversarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs
Tony Tong Wang, Adam Gleave, Tom Tseng, Kellin Pelrine, Nora Belrose, Joseph Miller, Michael D Dennis, Yawen Duan, Viktor Pogrebniak, Sergey Levine, Stuart Russell
- ICML 2023 OralPoster
- Readers: Everyone

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