Research

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Research Paper

Why Do Safety Guardrails Degrade Across Languages?

Max Zhang*

, Ameen Patel*, Sang Truong**, Sanmi Koyejo**
*: Equal contribution, **: Equal senior authorship
Under submission at COLM
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4/3/26: visiting Sang with Ameen (also Dr. Yibo Zhang)

Research Notes

Research Notes

LLMs can Annotate Attribution Graphs

Ameen Patel*

, Max Zhang*, Nathan Hu.
*: Equal contribution
Under review at ICML Mech Interp
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Research Paper

Research Paper

Response-Based Knowledge Distillation for Multilingual Jailbreak Prevention Unwittingly Compromises Safety

Max Zhang*

, Derek Liu, Kai Zhang, Joshua Franco, Haihao Liu
*: Lead author
NeurIPS ResponsibleFM Workshop, AACL SRW (oral)
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Yoshua Bengio

Mexico Group Photo

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Video

Interactive Web: Leveraging AI-Driven Code Generation to Simplify Web Development Algorithms for Novice Programmers

Kai Zhang, Vyom Kumar*,

Max Zhang*

*: Equal contribution

Research Paper

Projects Research Hackathons

Real-Time Badminton Form Evaluation (not finished, currently working on)

  • I built BIRDIE with my badminton teammate and school friend, Angela, to help new badminton players perfect their form.
  • Created a custom, labeled dataset of badminton players' forms from our local club(s) (300-400 images).
  • We used machine learning (logistic regression) and computer vision (convolutional neural networks) to build the "Form Detection" feature.

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App Home Page

BIRDIE home screen

Demo

Hackathons Research Projects

PS5 prize

1st overall at Bellhacks, won two PS5s

December 2025

BayHacks

Winner of BayHacks code4cause track, 199 participants

September 2024

VikingHacks

Runner-up at VikingHacks, Future of Entertainment

Feburary 2024