Biography

I am currently an MPhil student in AI under the supervision of Prof. Li Liu at HKUST(GZ) and the co-supervision of Prof. Yi R. (May) Fung at HKUST. Previously, after getting my MSc CS degree from HKU, I used to work as a full-time research assistant at Applied Security, Trust And Privacy Lab for Enterprise of PolyU under the supervision of Prof. Haibo Hu. During my undergraduate time at ECNU, I also participated in part-time research at Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing under the supervision of Prof. Dehui Du. It is also my great pleasure to work with close co-authors Zi Liang, Weilin Lin, and Nanjun Zhou.

Interests
  • AI Security
  • Adversarial/Backdoor Attack
  • Adversarial Training
  • Speech/Image Generation
Education
  • M.Phil. in Artificial Intelligence, 2024-Now

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  • M.Sc. in Computer Science, 2022-2024

    The University of Hong Kong

  • B.Eng. in Software Engineering, 2018-2022

    East China Normal University

Publications

(2025). New Paradigm of Adversarial Training: Breaking Inherent Trade-Off between Accuracy and Robustness via Dummy Classes. ArXiv Preprint.

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(2025). BackdoorDM: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Backdoor Learning in Diffusion Model. ArXiv Preprint.

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(2025). "Yes, My LoRD." Guiding Language Model Extraction with Locality Reinforced Distillation. In 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'25). Main conference.

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(2024). TSFool: Crafting Highly-Imperceptible Adversarial Time Series Through Multi-Objective Attack. In 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'24). Oral.

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(2023). Meta Pattern Concern Score: A Novel Evaluation Measure with Human Values for Multi-classifiers. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC'23).

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(2022). Efficient Adversarial Sequence Generation for RNN with Symbolic Weighted Finite Automata. In SafeAI Workshop @ 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'22). Best Paper Award Nomination.

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Honors & Awards

Excellent Graduate Award, East China Normal University, 2022

Excellent Bachelor's Degree Thesis Award, East China Normal University, 2022

Excellent Undergraduate Student, East China Normal University, 2020 & 2021

First / Second-class Scholarship, East China Normal University, 2020 / 2021

Services

Conference Reviewer - CVPR (2025, 2024), ICCV (2025), AAAI (2025)

Journal Reviewer - TKDE
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