I am Yijin Zhou (周艺晋), currently a second-year Ph.D. student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghao Innovation Institute, supervised by Research Scientist Jing Shao. I received my bachelor’s degree from Zhiyuan College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in 2024. My research interests lie in AI safety, AI agents, and computer vision. I explored medical image processing during my undergraduate studies and am now focusing on AI agent safety research. Outside of research, I enjoy 🏸badminton and 🏋️fitness.

🔥 News

• 2026.05:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by ICML 2026!
• 2026.04:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by RSS 2026!
• 2026.03:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by CVPR 2026 Findings🏸!
• 2026.03:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by CVPR 2026!
• 2025.11:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by AAAI 2026!
• 2025.09:  🎉🎉 Start my journal at Shanghao Innovation Institute!
• 2025.07:  🎉🎉 Start a period of algorithm internship at Shanghai AI Lab!
• 2024.12:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by Medical Image Analysis (IF 10.9)!
• 2024.07:  🎉🎉 Start a period of algorithm internship at Alibaba!
• 2024.06:  🎉🎉 Graduated and won Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis (Top 1%) and Outstanding Students of SJTU!
• 2024.02:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by ICML 2024 FM-Wild Workshop!
• 2023.10:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by Medical Image Analysis (IF 10.9)!

📝 Publications

• Arxiv HomeGuard: VLM-based Embodied Safeguard for Identifying Contextual Risk in Household Task, Xiaoya Lu, Yijin Zhou, Zeren Chen, Ruocheng Wang, Bingrui Sima, Enshen Zhou, Lu Sheng, Dongrui Liu, Jing Shao. Github
• CVPR 2026 Findings Jano: Adaptive Diffusion Generation with Early-stage Convergence Awareness, Yuyang Chen, Linqian Zeng, Yijin Zhou, Hengjie Li, Jidong Zhai. Github
• Arxiv DeepSight: An All-in-One LM Safety Toolkit, Bo Zhang, Jiaxuan Guo, Lijun Li, Dongrui Liu, Sujin Chen, Guanxu Chen, Zhijie Zheng, Qihao Lin, Lewen Yan, Chen Qian, Yijin Zhou, Yuyao Wu, Shaoxiong Guo, Tianyi Du, Jingyi Yang, Xuhao Hu, Ziqi Miao, Xiaoya Lu, Jing Shao, Xia Hu. DeepSafe DeepScan
• Arxiv Frontier AI Risk Management Framework in Practice: A Risk Analysis Technical Report v1. 5, Dongrui Liu, Yi Yu, Jie Zhang, Guanxu Chen, Qihao Lin, Hanxi Zhu, Lige Huang, Yijin Zhou, Peng Wang, Shuai Shao, Boxuan Zhang, Zicheng Liu, Jingwei Sun, Yu Li, Yuejin Xie, Jiaxuan Guo, Jia Xu, Chaochao Lu, Bowen Zhou, Xia Hu, Jing Shao.
• Arxiv INFA-Guard: Mitigating Malicious Propagation via Infection-Aware Safeguarding in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems, Yijin Zhou, Xiaoya Lu, Dongrui Liu, Junchi Yan, Jing Shao. Github
• CVPR 2026 Geometrically-Constrained Agent for Spatial Reasoning, Zeren Chen, Xiaoya Lu, Zhijie Zheng, Pengrui Li, Lehan He, Yijin Zhou, Jing Shao, Bohan Zhuang, Lu Sheng. Github Page
• AAAI 2026 IS-Bench: Evaluating Interactive Safety of VLM-Driven Embodied Agents in Daily Household Tasks, Xiaoya Lu, Zeren Chen, Xuhao Hu*, Yijin Zhou, Weichen Zhang, Dongrui Liu, Lu Sheng, Jing Shao. Github Dataset
• Chapter in Book "Deep Learning in Drug Design" Generative models for drug design, Yijin Zhou, Yuguang Wang.
• ICML 2026 How Out-of-Distribution Detection Learning Theory Enhances Transformer: Learnability and Reliability, Yijin Zhou, Yutang Ge, Wenyuan Xie, Linqian Zeng, Xiaowen Dong, Yuguang Wang. Github
• Medical Image Analysis Learnable color space conversion and fusion for stain normalization in pathology images, Jing Ke, Yijin Zhou（学生一作）, Yiqing Shen, Yi Guo, Ning Liu, Xiaodan Han, Dinggang Shen. Github
• ICML 2024 Workshop GROD: Enhancing Generalization of Transformer with Out-of-Distribution Detection, Yijin Zhou, Yuguang Wang.
• Medical Image Analysis Clusterseg: A crowd cluster pinpointed nucleus segmentation framework with cross-modality datasets, Jing Ke, Yizhou Lu, Yiqing Shen, Junchao Zhu, Yijin Zhou, Jinghan Huang, Jieteng Yao, Xiaoyao Liang, Yi Guo, Zhonghua Wei, Sheng Liu, Qin Huang, Fusong Jiang, Dinggang Shen. Github

🎖 Honors and Awards

📖 Educations

• 2025.09 - Now, Phd Student, Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai.
• 2024.09 - Now, Phd Student, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai.
• 2020.09 - 2024.06, Undergraduate, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai.

💻 Internships