Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2023-2027 (expected)
• M.S. in Computer Science (thesis-track), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020-2023
• B.S. in Computer Engineering (Highest Honors), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016-2020
• B.E. in Electronics and Computer Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2016-2020

Selected Works

If latent risk can be detected, can we intervene only when necessary?

Chengxiao Wang*, Enyi Jiang*, Xiaojing Liao, Sanmi Koyejo. CLEAR: Continuous Latent Adapter Routing for Utility-Preserving LLM Safety Alignment. [Arxiv]

Does safe-looking behavior necessarily imply a safe internal model state?

Enyi Jiang*, Anders Gjølbye*, Yibo Jacky Zhang, Sanmi Koyejo. When Behavioral Safety Evaluation Fails: A Representation-Level Perspective. [Arxiv]

Can alignment objectives operate directly over representations rather than only token distributions?

Enyi Jiang, Yibo Jacky Zhang, Yinglun Xu, Andreas Haupt, Nancy Amato, Sanmi Koyejo. Latent Adversarial Regularization for Offline Preference Optimization. [Arxiv] [Code]

Recent Publications

See the Publications tab for the full list.

Internship

• Meta Research Intern, Summer 2025/2026

• Argonne National Laboratory Research Intern, Summer 2023

• TensorOpera AI (FedML) Research Intern, Spring 2023

• Tencent AI Lab NLP Intern, Winter/Spring 2021

Teaching

• CS 441 Applied Machine Learning Teaching Assistant (Spring 2026 & Fall 2026)
Instructor: Prof. Marco Morales Aguirre

• CS 521 Trustworthy AI Systems Teaching Assistant (Fall 2025)
Instructor: Prof. Gagandeep Singh

• CS 447 Natural Language Processing Teaching Assistant (Fall 2021)
Instructor: Prof. Julia Hockenmaier

• CS 361 Probability & Statistics for Computer Science Teaching Assistant (Fall 2020)
Instructor: Prof. Hongye Liu

• CS 225 Data Structures Teaching Assistant (Spring 2020)
Instructor: Prof. Klaus-Dieter Schewe

• Math 213 Discrete Structures Teaching Assistant (Fall 2019)
Instructor: Prof. Klaus-Dieter Schewe

Service

Reviewer for NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, TMLR, CVPR, ECCV, AAAI, AISTATS, COLM, and TPAMI.

Mentoring

Shardul Marathe (Undergrad @ Stanford CS)

Hanwen Zhang (MCS @ UIUC CS)

David Shu Cheung (Undergrad @ UIUC CS -> MS @ UIUC CS)

Sunwoo Baek (MCS @ UIUC CS)

Nischay Singh (Undergrad @ UIUC CS)

Skye Qiu (Undergrad @ UIUC CS+STAT -> MCS @ UIUC CS)

Miscellaneous

My favorite quote: Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:2 NIV)

Part-time piano player (record piano version of Christian/Pop music). Write kinds of stuff from time to time. [Music Radio] [Random Blogs/Poems]

I enjoy music, long-distance running, ice skating, traveling, journaling, and reading in my free time.