Han Wang

I am Han Wang, a first-year ECE Ph.D. student at UIUC, advised by Prof. Huan Zhang. I obtained my bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University.

I was fortunate to work with Prof. Fei Wu at Zhejiang Univerisity, Prof. An Zhang and Prof. Tat-Seng Chua at the National University of Singapore, and Prof. Sharon Yixuan Li at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Research Interests

I have a broad interest in AI safety. Specifically, I am passionate about exploring the vulnerability of foundation models and ensuring their reliability and robustness.

Selected Publications & Manuscripts (* denotes the equal contribution)

	The Emperor's New Clothes in Benchmarking? A Rigorous Examination of Mitigation Strategies for LLM Benchmark Data Contamination Yifan Sun, Han Wang, Dongbai Li, Gang Wang, Huan Zhang ICML 2025* [Paper] [Code]
	Steering Away from Harm: An Adaptive Approach to Defending Vision Language Model Against Jailbreaks Han Wang, Gang Wang, Huan Zhang CVPR 2025 [Paper] [Code]
	ALI-Agent: Assessing LLMs' Alignment with Human Values via Agent-based Evaluation Jingnan Zheng, Han Wang, An Zhang, Tai D. Nguyen, Jun Sun, Tat-Seng Chua NeurIPS 2024 [Paper] [Code]

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL
Ph.D. • Aug. 2024 to Present

Zhejiang University, China
B.Eng. • Aug. 2020 to June 2024

Services

Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS 2025

Journay Reviewer: IEEE TNNLS

Website source from Jon Barron.

Last Updated: May 11th, 2025.