Rui Zhang

Rui Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Penn State University and a co-director of the Penn State Natural Language Processing Lab. His research focuses on trustworthy human-centered AI, LLM agents, and AI for science, and he has received recognitions including an NSF CAREER Award, a Senior Area Chair Paper Award at NAACL 2025, and an Outstanding Area Chair Award at EMNLP 2024. He is the principal investigator of an Open Philanthropy–funded project at Penn State to better mitigate sandbagging in AI models, studying behaviors such as exploration hacking and password-locking.

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https://ryanzhumich.github.io/

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Penn State University

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; co-director, Penn State NLP Lab

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