Rapid Poison: Practical Poisoning Attacks Against the Rapid Response Framework
43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026. Also presented at the ICLR 2026 AIWILD Workshop.
Hello, I'm Jaewon, an undergraduate at UC Berkeley studying EECS. I'm fortunate to be involved in research at Berkeley AI Research, where I work with both the Berkeley NLP Group and Professor David Wagner's Security Group. In the NLP group, advised by Alane Suhr, my work focuses on improving task decomposition and reasoning in language models. In the Security Group, I am fortunate to be mentored by Chawin Sitawarin and Sizhe Chen, where I study safety topics ranging from adversarial learning and jailbreak poisoning attacks to, more recently, prompt injection defenses. Previously, I conducted distributed systems research at Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab under the guidance of Jaewan Hong.
Recent News
- May 2026 Joining Moloco as an MLE intern
- Apr 2026 ICML 2026 Spotlight (top 2.2%) - RapidPoison
- Apr 2026 Amazon Research Day - Towards Recursive Task Decomposition
- Jan 2026 ICLR AIWILD Workshop 2026 - RapidPoison
* = equal contribution
Defending Against Transfer Attacks From Public Models
Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
@inproceedings{sitawarin_defending_2024,
title = {Defending against Transfer Attacks from Public Models},
booktitle = {The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations},
author = {Sitawarin, Chawin and Chang{${*}$}, Jaewon and Huang{${*}$}, David and Altoyan, Wesson and Wagner, David},
year = {2024},
month = jan,
url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=Tvwf4Vsi5F},
archiveprefix = {arxiv},
}
Experience
Machine Learning Engineer @ Moloco
Jun 2026 - Present
ML Ads Quality Team
Awards
EECS Evergreen Research Award
2023, 2026
UC Berkeley EECS
Projects
Teaching
- CS 170, Efficient Algorithms - Fall 2025, Spring 2026
- EECS 16A, Circuits & Linear Algebra - Fall 2022, Spring 2023
- CS 70, Discrete Math & Probability - Spring 2023 (Academic Intern)
- CS 61C, Computer Architecture - Spring 2023 (Academic Intern)