Weiyan Shi

we.shi@northeastern.edu

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ECE & Khoury Computer Science

Northeastern University

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

Research Projects

• Build and Govern Meta-Agents: Shepherd, Meta-Agent Workshop
• LLM Mode Collapse: Verbalized Sampling
• Strategic Dialogues: PersuasionForGood, Cicero in Diplomacy, Anti-Scam Chatbot, Movie Recommendation
• AI Safety: Persuasive Jailbreaker, ToolShield, Coding with Enemy

News

• [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.
  Try it: pip install shepherd-ai
• [2026.07] Coding with Enemy got Best Paper at the DL4C@ICML.
• [2025.11] Honored to be recognized as an AI2050 Early Career Fellow!
• [2025.11] Forbes covered our paper on Verbalized Sampling.
• [2025.10] Another grant to build AI agents for coastal risk assessment awarded. Thanks, Massachusetts AI Hub!
• [2025.10] Two grants to advance AI safety supported by Open Philanthropy. Thanks so much!
• [2025.08] We are organizing the 1st Workshop on Multi-Turn Interactions in LLMs at NeurIPS. Thanks to our sponsor, Meta and Orby AI, we offer free student workshop registration.