Qi Zhang

Qi Zhang

AI Scientist

I am Qi Zhang (张棋), also called Max — an Applied Scientist at AWS Security Analytics and AI Research (SAAR), and hold a Ph.D. in Computer & Information Sciences from Temple University, where I was advised by Eduard Dragut and worked closely with Cornelia Caragea and Longin Jan Latecki.

My research is in LLM agents, AI security, LLMs, NLP, and machine learning. I am always glad to talk about any of it — write to me.

Research

  • 01
    LLM Agents
    Agent systems that use tools, reason across many steps, and recover from their own mistakes.
  • 02
    AI Agent Security
    Tool-use security, robustness, and anomaly detection for agents that act in the real world.
  • 03
    LLMs → Structured Knowledge
    Extracting entities, relations, and complex structure from scientific and domain-specific text.
  • 04
    Structured Knowledge → LLMs
    Using knowledge graphs and taxonomies to improve reasoning, factuality, and adaptability.

News

Selected Publications

Underline marks equal contribution.

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Writing

  • August 19, 2026 Writing Things Down
    Why I am keeping notes in public, and what I expect to put here.

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