About Me

I am a first-year Computer Science Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I received dual bachelor's degrees from a joint program of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) and the University of Glasgow.

My research focuses on developing smarter and safer large language models, with an emphasis on the post-training and inference stages. A central challenge is ensuring that LLMs not only produce factually correct answers but also follow transparent and reliable reasoning processes, thereby reducing the risk of harmful or misleading outputs.

I aim to enhance both the intelligence and safety of LLMs through improved alignment techniques. I believe that alignment is fundamental to achieving AGI. In fact, the earliest version of ChatGPT emerged from an alignment-driven iteration of GPT-3. Alignment not only ensures instruction-following and safety but may also enhance a model’s general capabilities, making it more reliable and intelligent.

Papers

Yuchen Zeng*, Shuibai Zhang*, Wonjun Kang*, et al., Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Kangwook Lee
Under Review equal contribution
Thomas Zeng, Shuibai Zhang, et al., Kannan Ramchandran, Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Kangwook Lee
ICML 2025 Spotlight
Yue Yang*, Shuibai Zhang*, Wenqi Shao*, Kaipeng Zhang, Yi Bin, Yu Wang, Ping Luo
ICLR 2025 Oral equal contribution
Weiyun Wang*, Shuibo Zhang*, Yiming Ren*, Yuchen Duan*, Tiantong Li*, et al., Wenhai Wang
NIPS 2024 Poster equal contribution
Linyi Yang*, Shuibai Zhang*, Zhuohao Yu*, et al., Xing Xie, Weizhu Chen, Yue Zhang
ICLR 2024 Poster equal contribution
Linyi Yang*, Shuibai Zhang*, et al., Jindong Wang, Xing Xie, Yue Zhang
ACL 2023 Findings equal contribution

Work Experience

Research Assistant
Shanghai AI Laboratory, Shanghai
May 2024 - Aug 2024
Advisor: Wenqi Shao
Research Assistant
WestlakeNLP Lab, Westlake University, Hangzhou
Jun 2023 - Apr 2024
Advisor: Yue Zhang

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant - COMP SCI 220 Data Science Programming I
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spring 2025
Teaching Assistant - COMP SCI 300 Programming II
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fall 2024

Values

I'm not the kind of person who sits back and waits for things to happen — when I see an opportunity, I fight for it; when I face difficulties, I confront them head-on. I strive to create work that drives real impact — not just technical novelty, but ideas that matter. My goal is to push boundaries in ways that make a meaningful difference.