Yawen Duan

Yawen Duan is a Senior Researcher at the Safe AI Forum (SAIF), where he works on international coordination and technical AI governance for managing extreme risks from advanced AI. His research focuses on risks from increasingly agentic AI systems: how to set and operationalize risk thresholds and red lines, and how to evaluate and monitor agents post-deployment. Previously, as AI Safety Research Manager at Concordia AI, he led the Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (co-published with Shanghai AI Lab).