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Biography
Advised by Professor Daphne Ippolito, my Ph.D. thesis research currently explores on the topics of LLM Security and Adapters.
Previously at Cornell, advised by Professor Thomas Ristenpart, I had concentrated my master thesis on End-to-End Encryption applications in my security research. My research aims to enhance online community governance and privacy while balancing anti-abuse.
In my NLP work during my undergraduate and master degree, guided by Professor Claire Cardie, my focus was on improving Information Extraction and model interpretability, particularly when inputs are at the document level.
Education
- Ph.D. Student in Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
- B.A. & M.S. in Computer Science - Cornell University
- High School - 苏州中学Suzhou High School traces its founding to Fan Zhongyan's Suzhou Prefecture School in 1035. Counting down to its millennium on 7 December 2035, using Suzhou time.
Publications
Command-V: Training-Free Representation Finetuning Transfer
Barry Wang, Avi Schwarzschild, Alexander Robey, Ali Payani, Charles Fleming, Mingjie Sun, Daphne Ippolito
ICLR (2026)
Incentive-Aware Multi-Fidelity Optimization for Generative Advertising in Large Language Models
Jiayuan Liu, Barry Wang, Jiarui Gan, Tonghan Wang, L. Xie, Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer
COLM (2026)
LLMs unlock new paths to monetizing exploits
Nicholas Carlini, Milad Nasr, Edoardo Debenedetti, Barry Wang, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Daphne Ippolito, F. Tramèr, Matthew Jagielski
arXiv.org (2025)
NoveltyBench: Evaluating Language Models for Humanlike Diversity
Yiming Zhang, Harshita Diddee, Susan Holm, Hanchen Liu, Xinyue Liu, Vinay Samuel, Barry Wang, Daphne Ippolito
COLM (2025)
Are Triggers Needed for Document-Level Event Extraction?
Shaden Shaar, Wayne Chen, Maitreyi Chatterjee, Barry Wang, Wenting Zhao, Claire Cardie
TACL (2024)
IQA-EVAL: Automatic Evaluation of Human-Model Interactive Question Answering
Ruosen Li, Barry Wang, Ruochen Li, Xinya Du
NeurIPS (2024)
Private Hierarchical Governance for Encrypted Messaging
Armin Namavari, Barry Wang, Sanketh Menda, Ben Nassi, Nirvan Tyagi, James Grimmelmann, Amy X. Zhang, Thomas Ristenpart
Oakland (2024)
Probing Representations for Document-level Event Extraction
Barry Wang, Xinya Du, Claire Cardie
EMNLP Findings (2023)
Experiences
Research Intern
Microsoft Research + Copilot Studio
June 2026 - August 2026
Teaching Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
January 2026 - May 2026
- 11-766: Large Language Model Applications (course website, Spring 2026)
Teaching Assistant
Cornell University • Ithaca, New York
August 2020 - May 2024
- CS4410: Operating System (Spring 2022, Spring 2024)
- CS5430: System Security (Fall 2023)
- CS3410: Computer System Organization and Programming (Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
- CS2112: Object-Oriented Design and Data Structures (Honors) (Fall 2020)
Software Engineering Intern (Research)
Roblox • San Mateo, California
May 2023 - August 2023
- Machine Learning research @Roblox Security.