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Yanbo Dai, Ph.D. Student |
I am a first-year Ph.D. student at the CSE department of HKUST supervised by Prof. Shuai Wang. Before that, I received my Mphil degree from the IoT Thrust, Information Hub under the supervision of Prof. Songze Li. I received my bachelor degree of electronic information engineering from the Excellence class, School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, where I worked with Prof. Hailin Cao.
My research interests include
AI Security with a recent focus on LLMs
Backdoors in Federated Learning
Backdoor Attacks & Defenses
[05-30-2024] One paper is accepted by Usenix Security’24!
[04-25-2023] One paper is accepted by ICML’23!
Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering, HKUST, Aug. 2024 -
M.phil. in Internet of Things, HKUST(GZ), Sep. 2022 - Jun. 2024
B.Eng. in Electronic Information Engineering, Chongqing University, Sep. 2018 - Jun. 2022
Research Assistant, School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Southeast University, hosted by Prof. Songze Li, Jun. 2024 - Aug. 2024
Summer Research Internship, Department of EEE, The University of Hong Kong, hosted by Prof. Y.C. Wu, Jun. 2021 - Aug. 2021
(* indicates equal contribution)
BackdoorIndicator: Leveraging OOD Data for
Proactive Backdoor Detection in Federated Learning
Songze Li*, Yanbo Dai*
Usenix Security ’24.
Chameleon: Adapting to Peer Images for Planting Durable Backdoors in Federated
Learning
Yanbo Dai, Songze Li
ICML’23
Deep Domain Adaptation for Predicting Intra-AbdominalPressure with Multichannel Attention Fusion Radar
Chip
Hao Tang*, Yanbo Dai*, Dongchu Zhao, Zhiwei Sun, Fuqiang Chen, Yiliang
Zhu,Huaping Liang, Hailin Cao, and Lianyang Zhang
Advanced Intelligent Systems.