Johnny (Zhuowei)

CHEN



[CV]

Hi All!

🎓 Final Year Undergraduate Student @ GDUFS
🧑‍🎓 Incoming CS PhD Student @ UPitts
🔬 NLP and Large Language Model Researcher

I'm an incoming CS PhD student at University of Pittsburgh, closely work with Lorraine Li.

I completed my bachelor study at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies - 广外 and UC Berkeley (Year-3), with a degree in Software Engineering. During the undergrad study, I actively work with Lianxi Wang from Data Mining Lab at GDUFS, and Shichao Pei from UMass Boston.

I was honored as one of the Top Ten Outstanding Youths (广外十佳青年), the highest distinction awarded to students across ALL students at GDUFS (rk 10/30,000).

My research interests mainly focus on LLM Safety, LLM Applications and efficient NLP methods.

Feel free to reach out for questions and collaborations!

Education


University of Pittsburgh

School of Computing and Information
Ph.D. in Computer Science (studying)


Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

College of Information Science and Technology (SIST)
B.Eng. in Software Engineering
GPA: 3.82/4.00
Sep. 2021 – Jun. 2025


University of California, Berkeley

Visiting Student
GPA: 4.00/4.00
Aug. 2023 – Dec. 2024

Publications | [SCHOLAR]

* represents equal contributions.

Injecting Universal Jailbreak Backdoors to LLMs in Minutes.

Zhuowei Chen, Qiannan Zhang, Shichao Pei✉️

ICLR 2025

[Paper] [Site] [Poster] [Code]
An Effective Deployment of Diffusion LM for Data Augmentation in Low-Resource Sentiment Classification

Zhuowei Chen, Yuben Wu, Xinfeng Liao, Yujia Tian, Junyang Zhong, Lianxi Wang

EMNLP 2024

[Paper] [Site] [Poster] [Code]
Enhancing Hindi Feature Representation Through Fusion of Dual-Script Word Embeddings

Lianxi Wang, Yujia Tian*, Zhuowei Chen*

LREC-COLING 2024

[Paper] [Site] [Poster] [Code]
A Distantly-Supervised Relation Extraction Method Based on Selective Gate and Noise Correction

Zhuowei Chen, Yujia Tian, Lianxi Wang, Shengyi Jiang

Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistic, CCL 2023

[Paper] [Site] [Poster] [Code]
Unlocking LLM Safeguards for Low-Resource Languages via Reasoning and Alignment with Minimal Training Data.

Zhuowei Chen, Bowei Zhang, Nankai Lin, Tian Hou, Lianxi Wang

Under Review @ EMNLP 2025

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