Yiqian Zhang （張宜千）

CS PhD Student

Department of Computer and Data Sciences, CWRU

yxz3283@case.edu

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Biography

I am an incoming 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 interests lie in the area of Trustworthy AI, with a focus on enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and ensuring their safety alignment.

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News

  • [May. 04, 2026] [Paper] Our work Privacy Policy Enforcement Guardrails for Data-Sensitive Retrieval-Augmented Generation is submitted to PETS 2027.
  • [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

Privacy Policy Enforcement GuardrailsPreprint

Privacy Policy Enforcement Guardrails for Data-Sensitive Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Osama Zafar, Alexander Nemecek, Yiqian Zhang, Wenbiao Li, Debargha Ganguly, Vikash Singh, Vipin Chaudhary, Erman Ayday

Submitted to PETS 2027

PaperArxiv
Reasoning While AskingACL

Reasoning While Asking: Transforming Reasoning Large Language Models from Passive Solvers to Proactive Inquirers

Xin Chen*, Feng Jiang*, Yiqian Zhang, Hardy Chen, Shuo Yan, Wenya Xie, Min Yang†, Shujian Huang†

ACL 2026

PaperACL CodePIR
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