Senior Applied AI engineer @microsoft. PhD from UIUC on machine learning security.

New York City
Joined September 2012
personal update: I recently joined @Microsoft as a Senior Applied AI engineer in New York City! I’ll continue working in security, now with a focus on harnessing AI to make it even stronger. Really excited for this new chapter!
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Limin Yang retweeted
The Happy Lab is hiring multiple PhD students for Fall 2025! RT appreciated :-) We discover how human factors can 1) mitigate ML-enabled abuse (deepfakes) and 2) be harnessed with ML-powered security to create safe, human-centric systems! Find us at: happyresearchlab.com :)
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The first step in exploring a research direction is always to read related papers. I have found it beneficial to categorize and summarize existing papers, as this helps in nailing down concrete research projects and addressing questions like, "Why not include this paper?" or "How does your work differ from this work?". Together with my collaborators, we have curated a series of paper lists for the areas we have been working on. To benefit the broader community, I (upon the approval of other contributors ) decided to make some good ones public. Starting with this one on the security and safety of LLMs. If you are interested, check it out at: henrygwb.github.io/posts/llm…
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Please take a deep investigation on it! @ETH_en @CVL_ETH
I don't know the truth and don't want to believe in disturbing gossips. But, it's a failure of the lab, the institute, and the research community. If your student/postdoc commits suicides, there's something terrible wrong. Please investigate and take actions. @CVL_ETH @ETH_en
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🎓🎉Defended my Ph.D. dissertation today! 🙏🏻Big thanks to my advisor @ffmagicbean and my committee Dr. Carl Gunter, Dr. Ravishankar Iyer, Dr. Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and @lcavallaro! Thank you all to my friends, collaborators, and family. I will join @tiktok_us next month 😎
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RTs appreciated! We are conducting a paid study to understand users' experiences and practices with crypto wallets. If you, or someone you know, have used crypto wallets (e.g., @MetaMask ), pls sign up. Sign up link: ischoolillinois.az1.qualtric… #smartcontract #Crypto #cryptowallet
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Congrats Kexin!!!
Thrilled to share that I have finished my Ph.D. @Columbia and will be joining @UChicago as an Assistant Professor in Fall'24. I am immensely grateful to my incredible mentors, collaborators, and friends. Can't wait to work with the exceptional colleagues and students @UChicagoCS!
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Limin ⁦@whyisyoung⁩ is now presenting our paper on selective backdoor attacks at ⁦@IEEESSP⁩ #SP23
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Feels great at #SP23 @IEEESSP – at San Francisco, CA
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My talk is today at 2:30 pm! Come say hi at @IEEESSP 😊 – at San Francisco, CA
🔥Unveil our new @IEEESSP paper: “Jigsaw Puzzle” - a novel ML backdoor attack! Forget traditional backdoors; Jigsaw Puzzle only shields 1 malware family, while leaving other malware still predicted as malicious 🦠 Join my talk May 22, 2:30PM at S&P for more!💬 #IEEESP #MLSecurity
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Big congratulations to my advisor Dr. Wang!
I just learned that I got Tenure! --- It is such a privilege to work with our amazing students, collaborators, and colleagues. Very grateful to my family, friends, mentors, and the supportive department and university!
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🔥Unveil our new @IEEESSP paper: “Jigsaw Puzzle” - a novel ML backdoor attack! Forget traditional backdoors; Jigsaw Puzzle only shields 1 malware family, while leaving other malware still predicted as malicious 🦠 Join my talk May 22, 2:30PM at S&P for more!💬 #IEEESP #MLSecurity
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Replying to @whyisyoung @IEEESSP
Huge shoutout to @lcavallaro, @fbpierazzi, Zhi, @Entrophy6, @0xtrustypatches & my advisor @ffmagicbean for their invaluable support! 🙌🎉
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This work from @Microsoft beyonds my imagination. vallex-demo.github.io/ Try it and you will be like: wow!!!
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New deadlines to follow #Security
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It's seminar announcement time! Next Tuesday we get to hear from Riccardo Paccagnella (@ricpacca) who will lead a talk on the security challenges of modern hardware! It's also PI Day so hope to see you around 😄 😉 More Info: sites.gatech.edu/cybersecuri…
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Tried this #ChatPDF with my paper. It’s good at understanding the high-level idea. But it was wrong with some details. Surprisingly, after a few rounds of guidance, it got correct. A minor issue is the first reply is French and tried another paper and it replies in Chinese.
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🚨 Seminar Alert 🚨 Next week we will be welcoming @Kexin_Pei to campus where he will present his talk "Analyzing and Securing Software with Robust and Generalizable Learning." We are looking forward to having you Kexin! Virtual option: gatech.zoom.us/meeting/regis…
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Limin Yang retweeted
I am on the academic job market this year. I study data mining, machine learning and trustworthy AI, especially for graphs and multimedia with applications to network science, healthcare, cybersecurity and social good. Please find out more information at jiank2.web.illinois.edu/
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