I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学华中卓越学者 (辰星岗) 助理教授, 教育部海外博士后引才专项计划项目入选者(回国工作层次)). Before my current position, I was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada, advised by Prof. Jiangchuan Liu (Fellow of The Canadian Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow). I obtained my Ph.D. from the School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China in 2021, advised by Prof. Hongbo Jiang (Member of Academia Europaea, IET Fellow) and Prof. Chen Wang. I received my B.E. from the School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2017.

What’s New

[8/2025] I was invited to serve as a Program Committee member for AAAI-26.

[8/2025] Undergraduate student I supervised qualified for the final of the 1st National College Student Artificial Intelligence Security Competition 2025 with the project “Synthetic Audio Detection Based on Environmental Background Noise”.

[5/2025] Our paper “From Expansion to Retraction: Long-tailed Machine Unlearning via Boundary Manipulation” got accepted in ACM KDD !

[5/2025] Our paper “Decoupling Memories, Muting Neurons: Towards Practical Machine Unlearning for Large Language Models” got accepted in ACL Fingings !

[4/2025] Our paper “Poisoning as a Post-Protection: Mitigating Membership Privacy Leakage From Gradient and Prediction of Federated Models” got accepted in IEEE TDSC !

[3/2025] Our paper “Prototype Surgery: Tailoring Neural Prototypes via Soft Labels for Efficient Machine Unlearning” got accepted in ACM CCS 2025!

Research Areas

• Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (Safety, Privacy, and Security)
• Security of Large Language Models
• Data Privacy and Security
• Machine Unlearning
• Membership Inference Attacks

Prospective Students

Our lab has several open research positions for prospective graduate students (Ph.D./Master programs) and undergraduate research interns. We are looking for self-motivated students to work together on various exciting projects. If you are interested, please drop me an email with your CV.