About me

I am a final-year PhD candidate from SEIT Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University. My research focuses on trustworthy AI, security & privacy — especially threats and defenses related to Multimodal AI (CCS’22, WiSec’23, RAID’23, MobiCom’24, AsiaCCS’25, USENIX Security’25, Interspeech’26), Voice Control Systems (NDSS’22), LLMs (RAID’23, arXiv’24), and IoT (MobiCom’20, CNS’24). I am advised by Dr. Qiben Yan.

Before MSU, I completed my undergraduate at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.

Professional Experience

Research Scientist Intern Feb – Jun 2026

Adobe Research · San Jose, CA

• Deveop large-capacity audio watermarking model.

Multimodal Trustworthy Research Intern Sep – Dec 2025

Dolby Laboratories · Sunnyvale, CA

• Audio watermarking robustness benchmarking and optimization.

AI Security Research Scientist Intern Feb – Jul 2025

ByteDance Inc. · San Jose, CA

• Developed WAF applications with LLM-enhanced anomaly detection and web bot prevention.

Research Scientist Intern Sep – Dec 2022

Samsung Research America · Mountain View, CA

• Tested robustness of voice assistants in real-world scenarios and improved security.

Publications

My full publication list is here.

Awards

• Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF) 2024 · Michigan State University
• Best Paper Honorable Mention Award · CCS 2022
• Student Travel Grant · CNS 2020

Teaching

CSE 335: Object-Oriented Software Development · Fall 2021 & Spring 2022

Invited Talk

Michigan State University Graduate Student Seminar: The Great Outage — Facebook Global Outage on Oct. 4, 2021

Review Service

Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal
• IEEE MultiMedia

Conferences

• ICASSP 2025
• AAAI Agent4IR Workshop 2025