EXCITED to share that I’ll be joining the University of Hong Kong (HKU) as an Assistant Professor in January 2027!

I’m interested in AI agents , Human-AI Interaction and their safety.

Email me if you’d like to chat! I’ll also be at ACL from July 3–6!

https://stevenyzzhang.github.io/website/

Yanzhe Zhang

Source: https://stevenyzzhang.github.io/website/ 张彦哲 (Yanzhe Zhang)

I am a final-year computer science Ph.D. student atGeorgia Tech, working withDiyi Yang.

I am visitingStanford NLPnow.

I received my bachelor’s degree fromZhejiang Universityin 2021.

I interned at Adobe Research (2022-2023) withRuiyi Zhang.

Fun fact: मेरा नाम संजू (Sanju) है. I also go by Steven.

📣**Recruiting:**I’ll be joiningHKU CDSandHKU NLPas an Assistant Professor in January 2027. I am looking for motivated students to join my team! Email me if you’d like to chat!

Email/Google Scholar/Github

My research focuses on how to build AI agents thatreshape human-AI interactionand how to deploy themsafely at scale.

AgentRisk

Contextualized Privacy Defense for LLM Agents Yule Wen,Yanzhe Zhang,Jianxun Lian,Xiaoyuan Yi,Xing Xie,Diyi Yang ICML, 2026 [code]AgentRisk

Searching for Privacy Risks in LLM Agents via Simulation Yanzhe Zhang,Diyi Yang ICLR, 2026 [code]Evaluation

AutoMetrics: Approximate Human Judgements with Automatically Generated Evaluators Michael J. Ryan,Yanzhe Zhang,Amol Salunkhe,Yi Chu,Di Xu,Diyi Yang ICLR, 2026 [code]Agent

Real-Time Reasoning Agents in Evolving Environments Yule Wen*,Yixin Ye*,Yanzhe Zhang,Diyi Yang,Hao Zhu ICLR, 2026 [code]AgentEvaluation

Computer Agent Arena: Toward Human-Centric Evaluation and Analysis of Computer-Use Agents Bowen Wang,Xinyuan Wang,Jiaqi Deng,Tianbao Xie,Ryan Li,Yanzhe Zhang,Junli Wang,Dunjie Lu,Zicheng Gong,Gavin Li,Toh Jing Hua,Wei-Lin Chiang,Ion Stoica,Diyi Yang,Yu Su,Yi Zhang,Zhiguo Wang,Victor Zhong,Tao Yu ICLR, 2026 [code]Agent

Generative Interfaces for Language Models Jiaqi Chen*,Yanzhe Zhang*,Yutong Zhang,Yijia Shao,Diyi Yang ACL (Findings), 2026 [code] [website]AgentTraining

SWE-smith: Scaling Data for Software Engineering Agents John Yang,Kilian Lieret,Carlos E. Jimenez,Alexander Wettig,Kabir Khandpur,Yanzhe Zhang,Binyuan Hui,Ofir Press,Ludwig Schmidt,Diyi Yang NeurIPS Datasets & Benchmarks, 2025 [website]AgentRisk

Attacking Vision-Language Computer Agents via Pop-ups Yanzhe Zhang,Tao Yu,Diyi Yang ACL, 2025 [code]Training

Distilling an End-to-End Voice Assistant from Speech Recognition Data Will Held,Yanzhe Zhang,Ella Li,Weiyan Shi,Michael Ryan,Diyi Yang ACL, 2025 [website][training code][eval code]AgentEvaluation

Sketch2Code: Evaluating Vision-Language Models for Interactive Web Design Prototyping Ryan Li,Yanzhe Zhang,Diyi Yang NAACL, 2025 [website][code]AgentEvaluation

Design2Code: How Far Are We From Automating Front-End Engineering? Chenglei Si*,Yanzhe Zhang*,Ryan Li,Zhengyuan Yang,Ruibo Liu,Diyi Yang NAACL, 2025 [website][code][data]Agent

Dynamic LLM-Agent Network: An LLM-agent Collaboration Framework with Agent Evaluation Zijun Liu,Yanzhe Zhang,Peng Li,Yang Liu,Diyi Yang COLM, 2024 [code]Risk

Auditing Gender Presentation Differences in Text-to-Image Models Yanzhe Zhang,Lu Jiang,Greg Turk,Diyi Yang EAAMO, 2024 [website][code][data]Training

TRINS: Towards Multimodal Language Models that Can Read Ruiyi Zhang,Yanzhe Zhang,Jian Chen,Yufan Zhou,Jiuxiang Gu,Changyou Chen,Tong Sun CVPR, 2024Training

Enhanced Visual Instruction Tuning for Text-rich Image Understanding Yanzhe Zhang,Ruiyi Zhang,Jiuxiang Gu,Yufan Zhou,Nedim Lipka,Diyi Yang,Tong Sun NeurIPS Workshop on Instruction Tuning and Instruction Following, 2023 [website][code][data]TrainingRisk

Robustness of Demonstration-based Learning Under Limited Data Scenario Hongxin Zhang,Yanzhe Zhang,Ruiyi Zhang,Diyi Yang EMNLP, 2022 [code]Training

Continual Sequence Generation with Adaptive Compositional Modules Yanzhe Zhang,Xuezhi Wang,Diyi Yang ACL, 2022 [code]Training

Continual Learning for Text Classification with Information Disentanglement Based Regularization Yufan Huang*,Yanzhe Zhang*,Jiaao Chen,Xuezhi Wang,Diyi Yang NAACL, 2021 [code]Service**Reviewer:**ARR, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, EACL, COLM, CoLLAs, ICLR, ICML.