Summary

Third-year PhD student at Arizona State University researching natural language processing, LLM post-training, multi-agent systems, and AI for software security.

Education

• PhD in Computer Science

  Expected Spring 2028
  Arizona State University

  GPA: 3.67 / 4.0
• M.S. in AI Engineering - Information Security

  May 2024
  Carnegie Mellon University

  GPA: 3.7 / 4.0
• B.A. in Computer Science and Economics

  May 2022
  Boston College

  GPA: 3.65 / 4.0

Work Experience

• Research Intern

  May 2026 - Aug 2026
  Samsung Research America

  Conducted research on indirect prompt injection vulnerabilities in LLM-based agentic systems.

  • Developed a gym-like environment for scalable training-data sampling and generation.
  • Trained LLMs using supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning methods, including DPO and GRPO.
  • Achieved state-of-the-art performance on AgentDojo and AgentDyn.
• Algorithm Development Intern

  June 2021 - Sept 2021
  Sohu Inc.

  Designed and deployed a real-time feed deduplication system for a social media application.

  • Used Kafka, Spark, simhash, and Bloom filters for large-scale multimedia deduplication.
  • Reduced repetitive text exposure by approximately 90% and duplicate video content by approximately 30%.

Skills

Publications

• CAST: Critique-Aware Supervision for Training Reliable Long-Horizon Tool-Calling Agents

  2026
  EMNLP 2026 Main Conference

  Co-first author.

  View Publication
• Build-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Compiling Real-World Open-Source Software

  2026
  Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)

  First author.

  View Publication
• When Competency in Reasoning Opens the Door to Vulnerability: Jailbreaking LLMs via Novel Complex Ciphers

  2025
  NeurIPS 2025 Reliable ML from Unreliable Data Workshop

  View Publication
• Masked Pretraining Strategy for Neural Potentials

  2024
  AIP Advances

  First author.

  View Publication
• Enhancing LLM Factual Accuracy with RAG to Counter Hallucinations: A Case Study on Domain-Specific Queries in Private Knowledge-Bases

  2024
  arXiv preprint

  Co-first author.

  View Publication
• One first-authored paper submitted to NDSS 2027

  2026
  Under review

  First author.

  View Publication

Teaching

• Information Assurance (CSE 365)

  2026
  Arizona State University

  Role: Graduate Teaching Assistant

  Grading, office hours, and student support.
• Natural Language Processing (CSE 576)

  2024
  Arizona State University

  Role: Guest Lecturer

  Delivered a lecture about language model-based agents.
• Randomness and Computation (CSCI2244)

  2021
  Boston College

  Role: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  Grading, office hours, and student support.
• Web Application Development (CSCI2254)

  2022
  Boston College

  Role: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  Grading, office hours, and student support.

Interests

• Research

  Natural Language Processing, LLM Post-Training, Multi-Agent Systems, AI for Software Security