Zifan Wang

Researcher, Scale AI

Joined

February 2020

Names

Zifan Wang (Preferred)

Emails

****@andrew.cmu.edu (Confirmed)

****@cmu.edu (Confirmed)

****@safe.ai (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@scale.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Scale AI (scale.com)

2024 – Present

Researcher

Center for AI Safety (safe.ai)

2023 – 2024

PhD student

Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)

2019 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker

Summer Yue

2024 – Present

PhD Advisor

Anupam Datta

2018 – 2023

PhD Advisor

Matt Frederikson

2018 – 2023

Expertise

Explainable Deep Learning

Present

Adversarial Robustness

Present

Publications

LLM Novice Uplift on Dual-Use, In Silico Biology Tasks: A Multi-Benchmark Assessment
Chen Bo Calvin Zhang, Christina Q Knight, Nicholas Kruus, Jason Hausenloy, Nathaniel Li, Aiden Kim, Yury Orlovskiy, Coleman Breen, Bryce Cai, Jasper Götting, Andrew Bo Liu, Samira Nedungadi, Paula Rodriguez, Yannis Yiming He, Zifan Wang, Seth Donoughe, Julian Michael
- ICLR 2026 AIWILD
- Readers: Everyone
Script Kiddie Uplift: Measuring Procedural Misuse Amplification in AI Agents
Zora Che, Julio Poveda, Aldana Belen Rodriguez, Yannis Yiming He, Chen Bo Calvin Zhang, Zifan Wang, Udari Madhushani Sehwag
- ICLR 2026 AIWILD
- Readers: Everyone
SWE-Bench Pro: Can AI Agents Solve Long-Horizon Software Engineering Tasks?
Xiang Deng, Jeff Da, Edwin Pan, Yannis Y. He, Charles Ide, Kanak Garg, Niklas Lauffer, Andrew Park, Chetan Rane, Karmini Sampath, Maya Krishnan, Srivatsa R Kundurthy, Sean M. Hendryx, Zifan Wang, Chen Bo Calvin Zhang, Noah Jacobson, Bing Liu, Brad Kenstler
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
WebGuard: Building a Generalizable Guardrail for Web Agents
Boyuan Zheng, Zeyi Liao, Scott Salisbury, Zeyuan Liu, Michael Lin, Qinyuan Zheng, Zifan Wang, Xiang Deng, Dawn Song, Huan Sun, Yu Su
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Reliable Weak-to-Strong Monitoring of LLM Agents
Neil Kale, Chen Bo Calvin Zhang, Kevin Zhu, Ankit Aich, Paula Rodriguez, Christina Q Knight, Zifan Wang
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Best Practices for Biorisk Evaluations on Open-Weight Bio-Foundation Models
Boyi Wei, Zora Che, Nathaniel Li, Jasper Götting, Samira Nedungadi, Julian Michael, Summer Yue, Dan Hendrycks, Peter Henderson, Zifan Wang, Seth Donoughe, Mantas Mazeika
- BioSafe GenAI 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Search-Time Data Contamination
Ziwen Han, Meher Mankikar, Julian Michael, Zifan Wang
- NeurIPS 2025 LLM Evaluation Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Validating Mechanistic Interpretations: An Axiomatic Approach
Nils Palumbo, Ravi Mangal, Zifan Wang, Saranya Vijayakumar, Corina S. Pasareanu, Somesh Jha
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Aligned LLMs Are Not Aligned Browser Agents
Priyanshu Kumar, Elaine Lau, Saranya Vijayakumar, Tu Trinh, Elaine T Chang, Vaughn Robinson, Shuyan Zhou, Matt Fredrikson, Sean M. Hendryx, Summer Yue, Zifan Wang
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Uncovering Model Vulnerabilities With Multi-Turn Red Teaming
Nathaniel Li, Ziwen Han, Ian Steneker, Willow E. Primack, Riley Goodside, Hugh Zhang, Zifan Wang, Cristina Menghini, Summer Yue
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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