Jaylen Jones

Jaylen Jones

he/him/his

CSE PhD Student @ The Ohio State University

About Me

Hi, I’m Jaylen Jones, a third-year PhD student in Computer Science & Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU) advised by Prof. Huan Sun and Prof. Eric Fosler-Lussier. Prior to joining OSU, I received my B.S. in Computer Science from the College of Informatics at Northern Kentucky University (NKU).

Research Interests

My research centers on AI with a focus in natural language processing, the alignment of large language models (LLMs) to human values, and LLM-based agents. I am particularly interested in the design, evaluation, and applications of LLM-based systems for high-stakes, human-centered applications, unlocking the full potential of AI capabilities while ensuring the trustworthiness, robustness, and safety required for real-world use.

My current work focuses on the following high-level areas:

  • Evaluating and mitigating the risks of computer-use agents, with an emphasis on both security (i.e., protecting agents from adversarial attack) and safety (i.e., preventing accidental agent harms emerging from typical benign inputs).
  • Developing novel methods to introducing alignment signals during model training, aiming to address core vulnerabilities in existing LLMs and enhance the safety of computer-use agents in practice.

Publications & Papers

Awards and Experience