Advisors: Fazl Barez and Maike Osborne

Yawen Duan is a Senior AI Safety Researcher at Safe AI Forum and a DPhil student at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on technical AI governance, including evaluations, monitoring, and verifiable safety requirements for frontier AI systems. At Safe AI Forum, he works on international coordination on AI safety, particularly between China and the wider research community. Previously, Yawen was AI Safety Research Manager at Concordia AI, where he led work on a Frontier AI Risk Management Framework with Shanghai AI Lab. He holds an MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence from the University of Cambridge.