Bio

I am an Assistant Professor in the College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University. Prior to that, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University and Research Group Leader at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University on Sept. 2019, and continue my PostDoc research at CISPA for two years. From Oct. 2017 to May 2019, I was a Visiting Scholar at Purdue University.

I am looking for self-motivated Ph.D., master, and undergraduate students who are interested in trustworthy artificial intelligence and data privacy. Well-performing students have the opportunity to visit/study at top research institutions in the world, such as Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, UC Berkley, Yale University, Purdue University, University of Virginia, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, CISPA, etc. If you are interested, please feel free to drop me an email with your CV.

Research Areas

• Machine Learning Privacy and Security

  • Large language models: CCS’24a, NDSS’24b, ICML’24
  • Graph neural networks: ICML’23, Security’22b, CCS’22b, CCS’22a
  • Reinforcement learning: NDSS’24a
  • Machine unlearning: CCS’22b, CCS’21c
  • Federated learning: KDD’23
  • Facial recognition systems: Security’23c
  • Neural architecture search: CCS’22c

• Differential Privacy

  • Private training of machine learning models: Security’24, CCS’23
  • Synthetic dataset generation: ICDE’24 Security’23b, Security’23a, VLDB’23, Security’21, JPC’21
  • Local differential privacy: CCS’21a, CCS’18, TIFS’18
  • Stream data analysis: CCS’21b

News

• [September 2024] One paper titled “SoK: Dataset Copyright Auditing in Machine Learning Systems” got accepted in IEEE S&P 2025!
• [August 2024] I will join the TPC of WWW 2025!
• [August 2024] One paper titled “S2NeRF: Privacy-preserving Training Framework for NeRF” got accepted in ACM CCS 2024!
• [July 2024] I will join the TPC of KDD 2025!
• [July 2024] I will join the TPC of ICDE 2025!
• [July 2024] One paper titled “The Janus Interface: How Fine-Tuning in Large Language Models Amplifies the Privacy Risks” got accepted in ACM CCS 2024!
• [June 2024] I joined Zhejiang University as an Assistant Professor!