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72      <span><b>Best Paper Award</b> · ICML '26 NExT-Game</span><span>Multi-agent LLM systems</span><span>Game theory</span><span>AI safety</span><span><b>SWE</b> @ The Voleon Group</span><span>CMU MSCS '26</span><span>5 workshop papers</span><span>7 courses TA'd</span><span>AIDA 4 freediver</span><span>Tricking · breaking · photography</span>

73      <span><b>Best Paper Award</b> · ICML '26 NExT-Game</span><span>Multi-agent LLM systems</span><span>Game theory</span><span>AI safety</span><span><b>SWE</b> @ The Voleon Group</span><span>CMU MSCS '26</span><span>5 workshop papers</span><span>7 courses TA'd</span><span>AIDA 4 freediver</span><span>Tricking · breaking · photography</span>
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83          <h2 data-scramble>Hi, I'm Jerick.</h2>
84          <p>I'm a Software Engineer at <a href="https://voleon.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>The Voleon Group</b></a> in Berkeley, CA. I graduated from <b>Carnegie Mellon University</b>'s MSCS program in 2026, where my research focused on <b>Multi-Agent LLM Systems</b> and <b>AI Safety</b>.</p>
85          <p>My master's thesis examined deceptive behaviors in multi-agent LLM systems, co-advised by <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vincent Conitzer</a> (CMU) and <a href="https://zhijing-jin.com/fantasy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zhijing Jin</a> (University of Toronto). I also work remotely as an external collaborator for the <a href="https://zhijing-jin.com/home/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jinesis Lab</a>.</p>
86          <p>During my undergrad at CMU, I completed majors in both Computer Science and Mathematics with a minor in Computational Finance, graduating with University and College Honors.</p>
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90          <p>→ Software Engineer at <a href="https://voleon.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>The Voleon Group</b></a> since July 2026.</p>
91          <p>→ Presented <i>When Agents Lie</i> (Best Paper Award) at the ICML NExT-Game workshop in Seoul, July 2026.</p>
92          <p>→ Passionate about teaching: TA for 7 different CMU courses, from differential equations to graduate AI. See my <a href="/teaching/">teaching philosophy</a>.</p>
93          <p>→ Off-hours: tricking, breakdancing, freediving, photography, and K-Pop dance — proof on the <a href="/hobbies/">hobbies page</a>.</p>
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113          <span class="d">2026.07</span>
114          <p><b>New chapter.</b> Joined <a href="https://voleon.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Voleon Group</a> in Berkeley, CA as a Software Engineer.</p>
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117          <span class="d">2026.07</span>
118          <p><b>Best Paper Award.</b> "When Agents Lie: Premeditation, Persistence, and Exploitation in Repeated Games" accepted to the ICML New Frontiers in Game-Theoretic Learning (NExT-Game) workshop — and won the <b>Best Paper Award</b>. Presented in Seoul on July 11. <a href="https://openreview.net/pdf?id=v8nYIkYjY0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read the paper</a>.</p>
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121          <span class="d">2026.07</span>
122          <p><b>Paper accepted.</b> "What Game-Theoretic Benchmarks Miss: Strategic Silence in Multi-Agent LLMs" accepted to the ICML Workshop on Failure Modes of Agentic AI. <a href="https://openreview.net/pdf?id=ZOdCsExYgi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read the paper</a>.</p>
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125          <span class="d">2026.04.20</span>
126          <p><b>Thesis defended.</b> Successfully defended my master's thesis, <i>"The Structure of Deception: How LLM Agents Lie, Break Promises, and Exploit Trust in Multi-Agent Settings."</i> Watch the <a href="https://youtu.be/Z3Q9AkriPxg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defense presentation</a>.</p>
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129          <span class="d">2026.03.01</span>
130          <p><b>Paper accepted.</b> "Cheap Talk, Empty Promise: Frontier LLMs easily break public promises for self-interest" accepted to the <a href="https://alimama-tech.github.io/aims-2026/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ICLR AI for Mechanism Design and Strategic Decision Making workshop</a>.</p>
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133          <span class="d">2026.03.01</span>
134          <p><b>Paper accepted.</b> "Behavioral and Strategic Deception in Large Language Models: A Taxonomy and Benchmark Analysis" accepted to the <a href="https://agentwild-workshop.github.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ICLR Agents in the Wild: Safety, Security, and Beyond workshop</a>.</p>
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138          <p><b>Paper accepted.</b> "Market-Dependent Communication in Multi-Agent Alpha Generation" accepted to the <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/neurips-25-gen-ai-in-financ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NeurIPS GenAI in Finance workshop</a>.</p>
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148      <h2 class="reveal" data-scramble>Deception, communication &amp; trust between AI agents</h2>
149      <p class="muted reveal" style="max-width:640px;">How do LLM agents behave when they can communicate, commit, and privately deviate? My work builds taxonomies, benchmarks, and empirical evaluations of deceptive behavior in multi-agent systems.</p>
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152          <span class="chip">★ BEST PAPER</span> <span class="chip purple">ICML '26 WS</span>
153          <h3 style="margin-top:0.7rem;"><a href="/publications/">When Agents Lie</a></h3>
154          <p class="muted" style="font-size:0.9rem;">Premeditation, persistence, and exploitation: how LLM agents deceive in repeated games. Best Paper at the NExT-Game workshop.</p>
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158          <h3 style="margin-top:0.7rem;"><a href="/publications/">Cheap Talk, Empty Promise</a></h3>
159          <p class="muted" style="font-size:0.9rem;">Frontier LLMs break public commitments in ~57% of scenarios — often without recognizing they're doing it.</p>
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163          <h3 style="margin-top:0.7rem;"><a href="/publications/">From Hallucination to Scheming</a></h3>
164          <p class="muted" style="font-size:0.9rem;">A unified taxonomy of LLM deception, applied to 35 benchmarks to expose systematic coverage gaps.</p>
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186          <h3>What Your Projects Are Showing (Now That AI Can Build Any of Them)</h3>
187          <p>Recruiting season, empty resumes, and what a project is supposed to show now that AI can handle the technical part. Plus how I got into a research lab by extending one of its projects over winter break.</p>
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192          <p>3Blue1Brown's video on the IMO problem no model could solve, a framework for what understanding actually means, and why intuition is the only level educators still need to fight for.</p>
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197          <p>Notes from wandering the ICML 2026 poster halls in Seoul: readable papers on LLM agents, education, and finance, plus why each one caught my attention.</p>
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