Zijun Wang

I am a PhD student at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and my advisor is Prof. Cihang Xie. I received my BS from Zhejiang University.

My research interests mainly revolve around AI Safety.

I am always open to research discussions and collaborations : )

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News

[Jul. 2024] One co-authored paper is accepted by ECCV 2024

[Dec. 2023] Second Place in both base & large model subtracks of Red Teaming LLM@NeurIPS 2023, Torjan Detection Challenge

Publications

AttnGCG: Enhancing Jailbreaking Attacks on LLMs with Attention Manipulation
Zijun Wang, Haoqin Tu, Jieru Mei, Bingchen Zhao, Yisen Wang, Cihang Xie,
Technique Report, 2024

How Many Unicorns Are in This Image? A Safety Evaluation Benchmark for Vision LLMs
Haoqin Tu*, Chenhang Cui*, Zijun Wang*, Yiyang Zhou, Bingchen Zhao, Junlin Han, Wangchunshu Zhou, Huaxiu Yao, Cihang Xie (* represents equal contribution)
ECCV, 2024

Experience

Sep. 2024 - Present, VLAA Lab, UC Santa Cruz

PhD student advised by Prof. Cihang Xie, AI Safety

Aug. 2023 - Aug. 2024, VLAA Lab, UC Santa Cruz

Visiting Research Intern advised by Prof. Cihang Xie, Adversarial Attacks on LLMs & VLLMs

Jan. 2023 - Jul. 2023, Zhejiang University

Research Assistant advised by Prof. Yang Yang, Genaralized Graph Pre-training

Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2024, Zhejiang University

Undergrad, GPA: 3.92/4.0

Awards

- National Scholarship issued by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

- First-class Scholarship of Zhejiang University

- Provincial Government Scholarship of Zhejiang Province

Last Update 2024.09.04. Thanks to Jon Barron.