Achievements & Skills

A track record of innovation and excellence in machine learning and AI security

Awards & Recognition

Outstanding Paper Award

NeurIPS 2022 TSRML Workshop

Recognized for groundbreaking work on "zPROBE: Zero Peek Robustness Checks for Federated Learning," developing novel approaches to secure federated learning environments.

2nd Place - NIST TrojAI Competition

Round 3, 2022

Led a team that developed advanced methods to detect backdoored or poisoned models among over 1000 adversarial training models, outperforming 14 other competing teams.

DAC Young Fellow

58th Design Automation Conference (2021)

Selected as a Young Fellow at the premier conference for design and automation of electronic systems, recognizing promising early-career researchers.

Honorable Mention

Mathematical Contest in Modeling (2016)

Awarded for outstanding problem-solving approach in this international contest that challenges teams to develop solutions for complex, open-ended problems.

Patents

2022

zPROBE: Zero Peek Robustness Checks for Federated Learning

Serial No. 63/496,157

A novel framework for ensuring robustness in federated learning systems without compromising privacy.

2022

FaceSigns: Semi-Fragile Neural Watermarks for Media Authentication

Serial No. 63/323,470

A technique for embedding imperceptible watermarks that are robust to benign transformations but fragile to malicious manipulations.

2016

Peasants Joy Precisely Pushes Guiding Device

CN205754440U

An innovative mechanical guiding system enhancing precision and efficiency in agricultural applications.

2016

Bicycle Lock Based on Bluetooth

CN205621091U

A smart locking system leveraging Bluetooth technology for enhanced security and convenience.

2015

Portably Lead Blind Waistband

CN204766395U

An assistive device designed to aid navigation for visually impaired individuals.

Technical Skills

Machine Learning

Deep Learning GenAI & LLMs Neural Networks RAG Systems Adversarial ML Transfer Learning Reinforcement Learning Federated Learning

AI Security

Trojan Detection Neural Watermarking Model Robustness Privacy-Preserving ML LLM Jailbreak Prevention ML Backdoor Detection

Programming

Python PyTorch TensorFlow C/C++ CUDA JavaScript Rust

Hardware

FPGA System Verilog Hardware Security Hardware Acceleration ASIC Design Embedded Systems

Professional Service

Journal Reviewer

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Transactions on Machine Learning Research

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security

International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics

Conference Reviewer

IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

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