Aaron Zheng

EECS | UC Berkeley

About Me

I am an Artificial Intelligence Intern at Uniphore and a student at UC Berkeley studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. My work as an intern focuses on building innovative safety models for enterprise AI models, ensuring that they do not output toxic / offensive content.

With experience in LLMs, robotics, and computer graphics, I worked on projects ranging from contributing to JIPCAD, an open-source procedural 3D-CAD project, building a cellular automata like video game for my computer graphics final project, and research in the field of robotics and AI.

My mission is to build safe and efficient AI across modalities (motion, language), for the betterment of humanity.

In my spare time, you are most likely to find me in the gym, rock climbing, or playing the piano.

Portfolio

Here are some of my recent projects:

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    AI Guardrails Innovation:

    Developed a method of creating AI Safety Guardrails that reduced latency by 99% without sacrificing performance. Tested on an open-sourced safety dataset. Published at COLING 2025.

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    Cellular Automata Video Game Building:

    Developed a cellular automata-based video game system (like Minecraft) for my computer graphics class project at Berkeley.

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    Contributions to NOME / JIPCAD:

    Created a custom VSCode extension for the NOME programming language. Designed knot structures and implemented shelling, merging, offsetting, and color-changing features for this open-sourced 3D-CAD software.

Here are some customized tools I built:

Experience

2024

AI Intern

Uniphore

Developed AI safety methodologies, including novel guardrail models.
Developed versatile topic classifiers.

2023 - 2024

Peer Leadership Consultant

UC Berkeley Organizational Advising Student Involvement Services

Processed official registration of student orgs and their signatories on campus.
Front desk staffing to answer questions from student orgs.
Worked on designing new training website for signatories with colleagues.

2023

Language Engineering Intern

Ivoyant

Built and debugged parser and language models to analyze JSON files with user data.
Developed functionalities for data mapping app, allowing it to map source and target schemas based on parsed user-input expressions

Academics

Resume

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Contact

Feel free to reach out to me via email at aaronz@berkeley.edu or connect with me on LinkedIn.

Please feel free to also check my old personal website!: