Portrait of Shuo Chen

Shuo Chen

Ph.D. Candidate · LMU Munich / Siemens

LLM/MLLM Robustness · AI Safety · Reasoning

I study how large language and multimodal models behave under challenging reasoning, safety, and adaptation settings, with a focus on robustness, red-teaming, and in-context learning.

Robustness & Safety

Adversarial evaluation, jailbreaks, red-teaming.

Frontier Red Teaming

Finding and understanding failure modes in increasingly capable models.

Reasoning & Agents

Tool use, multi-agent decisions, delayed feedback.

Multimodal Adaptation

Multimodal adaptation from visual context.

Education

2020 - 2023

M.Sc. Data Science

LMU Munich Elite Master Project SIST Scholarship GPA 1.08/1.0

Experiences

2023 - Present

Doctoral Researcher

Siemens Research Munich Robust AI Reliable AI Systems
2024 - 2025

Applied Scientist Intern

Amazon Berlin Applied AI Systems Research Internship

Recent News

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  • AwardCompetition
    We won the Autoresearch Challenge at Paris Research Hackathon 2026.
  • PublicationRed Teaming
    One co-first paper on red-teaming implicit vulnerabilities of T2I models was accepted to ECCV 2026.
  • AwardICML
    I received a Silver Reviewer Award from ICML 2026.
  • GrantAI Safety
    I received a compute grant from CAIS to support research on AI safety.
  • ProjectAI Safety
    Deep Research Brings Deeper Harm is online.

Publications

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NeurIPSRobustnessVLM

Benchmarking Robustness of Adaptation Methods on Pre-trained Vision-Language Models

Shuo Chen, Jindong Gu, Zhen Han, Yunpu Ma, Philip Torr, Volker Tresp.

COLMMultimodalIn-Context

True Multimodal In-Context Learning Needs Attention to the Visual Context

Shuo Chen, Jianzhe Liu, Zhen Han, Yan Xia, Daniel Cremers, Philip Torr, Volker Tresp, Jindong Gu.

ChallengeRed TeamingSafety

Bag of Tricks for Subverting Reasoning-based Safety Guardrails

Shuo Chen, Zhen Han, Haokun Chen, Bailan He, Shengyun Si, Jingpei Wu, Philip Torr, Volker Tresp, Jindong Gu.

WorkshopAgentsSafety

Deep Research Brings Deeper Harm

Shuo Chen, Zonggen Li, Zhen Han, Bailan He, Tong Liu, Haokun Chen, Georg Groh, Philip Torr, Volker Tresp, Jindong Gu.

Contact

I am looking for motivated Bachelor’s and Master’s students who are willing to publish high-impact papers on top venues for research projects on LLMs, MLLMs, and Agents. Previous supervisions have led to work at ECCV, EMNLP, COLM, and ACL.

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