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# Kaiwen Zhou

Kaiwen Zhou has 3 papers in our library, in 2025, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Dawn Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawn-song/), [Gaowen Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaowen-liu/), [Jayanth Srinivasa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jayanth-srinivasa/).

3 papers in our library · 2025

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101842986) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0779-5450) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101842986) · [41 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101842986) · [86 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101842986&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaiwen-zhou/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 40 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaiwen-zhou/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7852](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/79/#star-7852)

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Kaiwen+Zhou) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kaiwen+Zhou) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kaiwen+Zhou) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kaiwen+Zhou)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Chinese University of Hong Kong** Hong Kong · China 2022–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/chinese-university-of-hong-kong/) · [🏢**Huawei Technologies** Shenzhen · China 2025–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/huawei-technologies/) · [🎓**University of California, Santa Cruz** Santa Cruz · United States 2022–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-cruz/) · [🎓**Sun Yat-sen University** Guangzhou · China 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sun-yat-sen-university/) · [🎓**Université de Lille** Lille · France 2025–2028 · 1 paperEducation 2025–2028 · PhD in Computer Science, Mathématiques, sciences du numérique et de leurs interactions*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-lille/) · [🎓**Centrale Lille Institut** Villeneuve-d'Ascq · France 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/centrale-lille-institut/) · [🔬**Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique** Paris · France 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique/) · [🔬**Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille** Villeneuve-d'Ascq · France 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-de-recherche-en-informatique-signal-et-automatique-de-lille/) · [🔬**Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique** Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt · France 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institut-national-de-recherche-en-sciences-et-technologies-du-numerique/) · [🎓**East China Normal University** Shanghai · China 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/east-china-normal-university/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

## Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/)

🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Bias, fairness & safety · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2025** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaiwen-zhou/year/2025/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[The Hidden Risks of Large Reasoning Models: A Safety Assessment of R1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2025-hidden-risks-large-reasoning-models/)** *(2025 · 30 citations)* Open-weight large reasoning models such as DeepSeek-R1 have become much stronger. Because they are freely available, misuse is a real concern. This study audits their safety systematically. It compares three open reasoning models (DeepSeek-R1, the Llama 3.3-based distilled DeepSeek-R1-70b, and QwQ) with non-reasoning…
2. **[GUI-explorer: Autonomous Exploration and Mining of Transition-aware Knowledge for GUI Agent](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2025-gui-explorer-autonomous-exploration-mining/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* Multimodal LLM agents that operate mobile apps often misread interface elements, such as a music-recognition icon in QQ Music, and their built-in knowledge becomes outdated as apps update. Fine-tuning for each app version is too costly. GUI-explorer is a training-free agent that addresses both problems in three steps:
3. **[SafeKey: Amplifying Aha-Moment Insights for Safety Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2025-safekey-amplifying-aha-moment-insights/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) such as DeepSeek-R1 deliberate before answering, but they often comply with harmful requests and jailbreaks.

## All works

4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[The Hidden Risks of Large Reasoning Models: A Safety Assessment of R1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2025-hidden-risks-large-reasoning-models/) [International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/)**Kaiwen Zhou, Chengzhi Liu, Xuandong Zhao, et al.*2025 · 30 citations*
2. **[GUI-explorer: Autonomous Exploration and Mining of Transition-aware Knowledge for GUI Agent](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2025-gui-explorer-autonomous-exploration-mining/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Bin Xie, Rui Shao, Gongwei Chen, et al.*2025 · 9 citations*
3. **[SafeKey: Amplifying Aha-Moment Insights for Safety Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2025-safekey-amplifying-aha-moment-insights/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Kaiwen Zhou, Xuandong Zhao, Jayanth Srinivasa, et al.*2025 · 9 citations*
4. **[SIRAJ: Diverse and Efficient Red-Teaming for LLM Agents via Distilled Structured Reasoning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-eacl.171/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026 · no summary yet**Kaiwen Zhou et al.*2026*

## Co-authors here

11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Dawn Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawn-song/) ×2
- [Gaowen Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaowen-liu/) ×2
- [Jayanth Srinivasa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jayanth-srinivasa/) ×2
- [Xin Eric Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-eric-wang/) ×2
- [Xuandong Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuandong-zhao/) ×2
- [Aosong Feng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aosong-feng/)
- [Gongwei Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gongwei-chen/)
- [Jie Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-liu/)
- [Liqiang Nie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liqiang-nie/)
- [Min Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/min-zhang/)
- [Rui Shao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-shao/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/)
- [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/)
- [International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/): [IJCNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/2025/)
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 40 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [13 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaiwen-zhou/cited-by/).

Updated 31 October 2026