Pengyu Zhang

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Bio

I am a Senior Engineering Manager at Uber, leading teams that build data pipelines for large-scale data lakes and develop machine learning models for threat detection and AI safety. Previously, I led cloud infrastructure and platform development at Alibaba Cloud Seattle. I received my Ph.D. from UMass Amherst (advised by Deepak Ganesan) and was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford (with Sachin Katti), earning the ACM SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award for work on wireless systems. I hold bachelor's and master's degrees from Tsinghua University.

Goal

Ensure the flexible and safe adoption of AI (including LLMs and AI tools) in large-scale enterprise environments. This includes defending against prompt injection attacks, jailbreaking attempts, and other AI-specific threats, while enabling secure adoption of emerging technologies such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) and AI agents.

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