Zerui Cheng

PhD student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University

Intern, Seed, ByteDance Inc.

Joined

January 2025

Names

Zerui Cheng (Preferred)

Emails

****@princeton.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University (princeton.edu)

2023 – Present

Intern

Seed, ByteDance Inc. (bytedance.com)

2025 – 2026

Intern

Quantitative Research, JQ Investments (jqinvestments.com)

2024 – 2024

Intern

AI Fellow, Sentient (sentient.xyz)

2024 – 2024

Undergrad student

Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (a.k.a. Yao Class), Tsinghua University (tsinghua.edu.cn)

2019 – 2023

Intern

Computer Science, Duke University (duke.edu)

2022 – 2022

Intern

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

2022 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Pramod Viswanath

2023 – Present

Expertise

large language models

2024 – Present

2022 – Present

cryptography

2022 – Present

blockchains

2021 – Present

zero-knowledge proofs

2022 – 2022

Publications

OML: A Primitive for Reconciling Open Access with Owner Control in AI Model Distribution
Zerui Cheng, Edoardo Contente, Benjamin Tsengel Finch, Oleg Aleksandrovich Golev, Jonathan Hayase, Andrew Miller, Niusha Moshrefi, Anshul Nasery, Sewoong Oh, Himanshu Tyagi, Pramod Viswanath
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
OML: A Primitive for Reconciling Open Access with Owner Control in AI Model Distribution
Zerui Cheng, Edoardo Contente, Benjamin Tsengel Finch, Oleg Aleksandrovich Golev, Jonathan Hayase, Andrew Miller, Niusha Moshrefi, Anshul Nasery, Sewoong Oh, Himanshu Tyagi, Pramod Viswanath
- NeurIPS Lock-LLM Workshop 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
AutoCode: LLMs as Problem Setters for Competitive Programming
Shang Zhou, Zihan Zheng, Kaiyuan Liu, Zeyu Shen, Zerui Cheng, Zexing Chen, Hansen He, Jianzhu Yao, Huanzhi Mao, Qiuyang Mang, Tianfu Fu, Beichen Li, Dongruixuan Li, Wenhao Chai, Zhuang Liu, Aleksandra Korolova, Peter Henderson, Natasha Jaques, Pramod Viswanath, Saining Xie et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
When Hallucination Costs Millions: Benchmarking AI Agents in High-Stakes Adversarial Financial Markets
Zeshi Dai, Zimo Peng, Zerui Cheng, Ryan Yihe Li
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Position: Benchmarking is Broken - Don't Let AI be Its Own Judge
Zerui Cheng, Stella Wohnig, Ruchika Gupta, Samiul Alam, Tassallah Abdullahi, João Alves Ribeiro, Christian Nielsen-Garcia, Saif Mir, Siran Li, Jason Orender, Seyed Ali Bahrainian, Daniel Kirste, Aaron Gokaslan, Carsten Eickhoff, Ruben Wolff
- NeurIPS 2025 Position Paper Track
- Readers: Everyone
LiveCodeBench Pro: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?
Zihan Zheng, Zerui Cheng, Zeyu Shen, Shang Zhou, Kaiyuan Liu, Hansen He, Dongruixuan Li, Stanley Wei, Hangyi Hao, Jianzhu Yao, Peiyao Sheng, Zixuan Wang, Wenhao Chai, Aleksandra Korolova, Peter Henderson, Sanjeev Arora, Pramod Viswanath, Jingbo Shang, Saining Xie
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track poster
- Readers: Everyone
SPIN-Bench: How Well Do LLMs Plan Strategically and Reason Socially?
Jianzhu Yao, Kevin Wang, Ryan Hsieh, Haisu Zhou, Tianqing Zou, Zerui Cheng, Zhangyang Wang, Pramod Viswanath
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Position: Can OpenAI be Truly "Open"? Open, Monetizable, and Loyal (OML) AI Is What You Need in a Fair and Sustainable Next-Generation AI Ecosystem
Zerui Cheng, Edoardo Contente, Oleg Aleksandrovich Golev, Jonathan Hayase, Andrew Miller, Niusha Moshrefi, Anshul Nasery, Sewoong Oh, Himanshu Tyagi, Pramod Viswanath
- Submitted to ICML 2025 Position Paper Track
- Readers: Everyone

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