Weiyan Shi

we.shi@northeastern.edu

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ECE & Khoury Computer Science

Northeastern University [CV]

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I am an assistant professor at Northeastern University, jointly appointed by ECE and Khoury Computer Science. I am interested in Human-AI Interaction, AI Safety, and Management Science of Agents.

Research Projects

• Agents Managing Agents: Shepherd (GitHub, Docs), Meta-Agent Workshop
• Multi-Agent RL & User Simulation: Simulator Collapse, Verbalized Sampling
• Strategic Dialogues: PersuasionForGood, Cicero in Diplomacy
• AI Safety: Persuasive Jailbreaker, ToolShield, Coding with "Enemy"

News

• [2026.07] Thanks to Quanta Magazine for covering our paper, "Can Aha Moments Be Fake?".
• [2026.07] We are organizing the 1st Workshop on Responsible Use of Meta-Agents at NeurIPS 2026.
• [2026.07] Released a new framework, Shepherd, on building meta-agents that manage agents on the fly.
  [2026.07] Try it: pip install shepherd-ai
• [2026.07] "Coding with 'Enemy'" won the Best Paper award at DL4C@ICML 2026.
• [2026.06] Thanks to Samsung for a grant to support our research on AI safety.
• [2025.11] Honored to be recognized as an AI2050 Early Career Fellow!
• [2025.11] Forbes covered our paper on Verbalized Sampling.
• [2025.10] Two grants to advance AI safety supported by Open Philanthropy. Thanks so much!

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• [2025.08] We are organizing the 1st Workshop on Multi-Turn Interactions in LLMs at NeurIPS. Thanks to our sponsors, Meta and Orby AI, we offer free student workshop registration.