Zhijing Jin

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I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, a Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute with Bernhard Schoelkopf, and the Founder of EuroSafeAI. I am also a CIFAR AI Chair, Member of the EU AI Scientific Panel, faculty affiliate of CHAI at UC Berkeley and FLI, member at the Vector Institute, faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute, and an ELLIS advisor.

Research Interests

Multi-Agent LLMs
AI Safety
LLM Democracy Defense
Causal Reasoning
Mechanistic Interpretability

Highlights

I am the recipient of the ELLIS PhD Award, 3 Rising Star awards, 4 Best Paper awards at ICML 2026 and NeurIPS 2024 Workshops, and several PhD fellowships at Coefficient Giving and the Future of Life Institute. In the international academic community, I am a co-chair of the ACL Ethics Committee, co-organizer of the ACL Year-Round Mentorship, and a main supporter of the NLP for Positive Impact Workshop series. My work is reported in CHIP Magazine, WIRED, and MIT News.