Yue Zhao

How do you catch a security flaw in an AI agent before it ships? Yue Zhao is an assistant professor of computer science at USC and director of the FORTIS Lab (Foundations Of Reliable and Trustworthy Intelligent Systems). His research on reliable and safe AI — spanning LLM and agent safety, robustness, and anomaly detection — powers widely used open-source tools, and his project builds audit-to-patch pipelines that detect and fix high-impact risks in LLM agent systems.