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🧑‍💻 Biography

I am a second year Ph.D. student at University of Virginia, supervised by Prof. Anil Vullikanti. Prior to that, I obtained my master degree at Imperial College London, where I worked with Prof. Alessio and Dr. Yang Zheng, and I obtained my bachelor degree at Dalian University of Technology, where I worked with Prof. Xuewen Huang

I am broadly interested in Large Language Models, Generative AI, especially from a safety and privacy lens.

One paper for black-box backdoor defense on has been accepted by ICLR 2025.
One paper for unified black-box backdoor detection on diffusion models has been accepted by AAAI 2025.
One paper for black-box backdoor detection with causal inference has been accepted by TMLR (Featured Certificate 🏆).
Proposal for PETs has been accepted (💰 $50000)!
One paper for using LLM and RAG for image geo-localization is accepted by SIGIR 2024!
One paper for backdoor attacks on SAM BadSAM is accepted by AAAI 2024 students abstract!
One paper for explanability-driven backdoor detection on graph neural networks is accepted by ECAI 2023!
One paper about enhanced deep backdoor attacks is accepted by CIKM 2023!

I love powerlifting.

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