Current Group Members
Ph.D. students
Alumni
Ph.D. students & postdocs
- Hongbin Liu, 2025.
Dissertation title: "Towards Safe and Secure Generative AI Systems".
Employment: Research Scientist at Google Deepmind.
- Minghong Fang, PostDoc, 2022-2024. (Also closely worked with me during his Ph.D.)
Employment: tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Louisville.
- Jinyuan Jia, 2022.
Dissertation title: "Privacy Protection via Adversarial Examples".
Employment: tenure-track Assistant Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University.
- Xiaoyu Cao, 2022.
Dissertation title: "Secure Federated Learning: Attacks and Defenses".
Employment: Research Scientist at Meta.
- Chao-Chun Cheng (co-advised with Yong Guan at Iowa State University), 2020.
Dissertation title: "EviHunter: Identifying Digital Forensic Artifacts in Android Devices via Static and Dynamic Program Analysis".
Employment: Research Scientist at Meta.
- Binghui Wang (Iowa State University), 2019.
Dissertation title: "Graph-based Security and Privacy Analytics via Collective Classification".
Employment: tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology.
Master students
- Muoyang Guo, 2025 → Ph.D. student at Northwestern University.
- Zedian Shao, 2025 → Ph.D. student at Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Zhongye Liu, 2025 → Ph.D. student at Penn State.
- Jinghuai Zhang, 2023 → Ph.D. student at UCLA.
- Yupei Liu, 2022 → Software Engineer at MathWorks. Received Dean's Research Award for Master's Students.
- Cimone Wright (Iowa State University), 2017.
Undergraduate students
- Michael Li, 2025 → Ph.D. student at Duke.
- Xilong Wang, 2024 → Ph.D. student at Duke.
- Ming Yin, 2024 → Ph.D. student at Duke.
- Yichang Xu, 2024 → Ph.D. student at Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Wenjie Qu, 2023 → Ph.D. student at National University of Singapore.
Other Ph.D. students/interns
- Yueqi Xie
- Wen Huang
- Zaixi Zhang
- Yongji Wu
- Minghong Fang
- Guolei Yang