Daniel Kang

UIUC

Professor

Daniel is a professor of computer science at UIUC, where he studies the progress of AI, with a particular focus on dangerous capabilities of AI agents. His work includes:

- CVE-Bench, an award winning benchmark (SafeBench award, ICML spotlight) that is used by frontier labs and governments to measure AI agents' ability to find and exploit real-world vulnerabilities. 

- Agent Benchmark Checklist, an award winning work (Berkeley AI summit, 1st place Benchmarks & Evaluations track) that highlights major issues in existing benchmarks.

- InjecAgent, one of the first AI agent safety benchmarks, used by governments and major labs.