Yiqian (Spencer) Zhang （張宜千）
CS PhD Student
Department of Computer and Data Sciences, CWRU
Biography
I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Erman Ayday. Prior to joining CWRU, I earned my M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech and my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Beijing Jiaotong University.
My research focuses on LLM reasoning, Coding agents, LLM watermarking, and Genomic language models.
I am open to visiting opportunities, internships, and research collaborations. Please feel free to get in touch.
News
- [Oct. 13, 2026] [Paper] Our work Privacy Policy Enforcement Guardrails for Data-Sensitive Retrieval-Augmented Generation has been accepted to IEEE TPS 2026 (The 8th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications).
- [Apr. 20, 2026] [Award] I am honored to be selected for the Swanger Graduate Fellowship for Fall 2026. This fellowship is selectively awarded to the most qualified PhD applicants at Case Western Reserve University based on their research potential.
- [Apr. 15, 2026] [Education] I've formally accepted the CS PhD offer and the RA funding from CWRU. See you in Cleveland!
- [Apr. 06, 2026] [Paper&Code] Our work Reasoning While Asking: Transforming Reasoning Large Language Models from Passive Solvers to Proactive Inquirers is accepted to the 2026 ACL Main Conference.
Publications
IEEE TPSPrivacy Policy Enforcement Guardrails for Data-Sensitive Retrieval-Augmented Generation
IEEE TPS 2026
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