Kaiyuan Zhang
Assistant Professor at Perplexity
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolKaiyuan Zhang is a researcher and PhD candidate at Purdue who designs security and privacy foundations for real-world agentic AI systems, with eight years of experience bridging academic rigor and product-facing research. He has worked across industry labs—Perplexity, Microsoft Research, AWS Bedrock, and NEC Labs—specializing in threats like prompt injection and alignment/mechanistic interpretability of LLM-driven agents. His publications and policy contributions include responses to NIST/CAISI and practical tooling for safer browsing agents, reflecting both theoretical depth and applied impact. Based in West Lafayette, he combines hands-on experiments with frontier models and an ability to translate findings into industry guidance, making him a go-to researcher for building secure, deployable AI agents.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science, Machine Learning and Computer Security, Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science, Machine Learning and Computer Security at Purdue University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (38)
graph-embedding10
adversarial-learning10
graph-representation-learning10
text-analytics9
text-analysis9
security9
graph9
language-modeling9
graph-convolutional-networks8
machine-learning8
graph-algorithms7
text-classification7
word-embeddings7
natural-language-processing7
inverted-index7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KaiyuanZh/awesome-graph-representation-learning
Mar 2019 - Oct 2020
A curated list of awesome graph representation learning.
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 1 year 7 months
graph-representation-learninggraphgraph-neural-networksgraph-embeddinggraph-convolutional-networks
ICLR23-BANDS/ICLR23-BANDS.github.io
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:16 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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