I received my Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to this, I received my B.S. in Mathematics from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and was a visiting student at Columbia University.
I am actively looking for 27 Fall CS PhD position. I am always open to collaborate, feel free to drop me an email.
My research interests lie in AI Safety, Language Model Reasoning, and AI Agent Evaluation. I am particularly interested in developing robust evaluation frameworks and safety mechanisms for AI agents, as well as exploring cognitive-inspired approaches to improve language model capabilities.
I am fortunate to collaborate with Dr. Jiaxin Pei at Stanford HAI on system prompt auditing, Prof. Ludwig Schmidt at Stanford CS on agent benchmarking, and Prof. Manling Li at Northwestern MLL Lab on cognitive language modeling.
Feel free to reach out if you have any ideas for potential collaboration, or just feel like having a casual chat!
🔥 News
- 2025.08: Joined Stanford HAI as research intern working on AI safety with Dr. Jiaxin Pei.
- 2025.07: Began collaboration with Prof. Ludwig Schmidt at Stanford CS on agent evaluation frameworks.
- 2025.05: Started research internship at Northwestern MLL Lab with Prof. Manling Li on cognitive language modeling.
📝 Publications
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Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces
Mike A Merrill, Alexander Glenn Shaw, Nicholas Carlini, et al. (including Xiangning Lin), Ludwig Schmidt
Accepted by ICLR 2026
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System Prompt Auditing for User-Centric AI Agents
Xiangning Lin*, Shenzhe Zhu*, Jiaxin Pei
In Preparation for ACL 2026 -
Cognitive-Inspired Concept Reasoning via Mamba in Sentence Representation Spaces
Xiangning Lin*, Jianwen Lyu*, Qineng Wang, Zihan Wang, Manling Li
In Preparation for ICML 2026
📖 Educations
- 2021 - 2023, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2016 - 2020, B.S. in Mathematics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- 2019 (Visiting Student), Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY