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Julian Schulz

Julian Schulz

AI safety researcher & teacher

Research

Learning Steganography Is Easy, Learning Steganographic Reasoning Is Hard
Julian Schulz, Lukas Fülle, Rieke Fruengel
NeurIPS 2026 Workshop AI4GOODOral
Monitor Jailbreaking: Evading Chain-of-Thought Monitoring Without Encoded Reasoning
Julian Schulz
COLM 2026 Workshop AdvML-Frontiers x CoTMA
A Concrete Roadmap towards Safety Cases based on Chain-of-Thought Monitoring
Julian Schulz
AI & Societal Robustness Conference 2025Best Poster Award
Automated Feature Labeling with Token-Space Gradient Descent
Julian Schulz, Seamus Fallows
ICLR 2025 Workshop Building Trust
Steering Llama 2 via Contrastive Activation Addition
Nina Panickssery, Nick Gabrieli, Julian Schulz, Meg Tong, Evan Hubinger, Alexander Matt Turner
ACL 2024Outstanding Paper Award

Teaching

ML4Good
Head Teacher · since 2025 · Europe, Canada, Singapore & South Africa
Teaching and organizing the teaching team at one-week AI safety bootcamps.
Iliad Intensive
Teacher · since 2026
Mechanistic Interpretability and Intro to ML Engineering.
SAIGE Incubator · MARS
Research Mentor · 2025, 2026

Productivity Tools

Paper template
Claude Code + LaTeX + Zotero + RAG for academic writing.
ML research template
Template repository for ML experiments.
Research scaffold
Run experiments from YAML configs with composition, sweeps and remote execution. Developed with Jason Brown.
dotfiles
My forkable terminal, Neovim and Claude Code setup.
jless.nvim
Read JSON Lines files as a human, inside Neovim.

Games

J'accuse!
Convince the group, encrypt your knowledge.
Wallfacer
The aliens are coming. Figure out their secret.
Falscher Fisch
A tense one on one, a duel of the mind.
GIPF Zero
Play GIPF in the browser against an AI trained by self-play.