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Im Oberen Werk 1
66386 St. Ingbert (Germany)

Awards (selection)

2022: Busy Beaver Award for "Privacy of Machine Learning"

2019: Best paper award at NDSS 

Short Bio

Dr. YAng Zhang is Faculty at CISPA. His research concentrates on trustworthy machine learning (privacy, safety, and security). Moreover, he works on measuring and understanding misinformation and unsafe content like hateful memes on the Internet. Over the years, he has published multiple papers at top venues in computer science, including CCS, NDSS, Oakland, and USENIX Security. His work has received the NDSS 2019 distinguished paper award and the CCS 2022 best paper award runner-up.

CV: Last stations

Since 2020
Faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
2019 - 2020
Research Group Leader at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
2017 - 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher - Host: Michael Backes - CISPA, Saarland University
2012 - 2016
Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Luxembourg, highest honor

Publications by Yang Zhang

Year 2025

Conference / Medium

Usenix Security Symposium (USENIX-Security)
SoK: Data Reconstruction Attacks Against Machine Learning Models: Definition, Metrics, and Benchmark

Conference / Medium

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
GPTracker: A Large-Scale Measurement of Misused GPTs

Conference / Medium

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
On the Effectiveness of Prompt Stealing Attacks on In-The-Wild Prompts

Conference / Medium

Usenix Security Symposium (USENIX-Security)
HateBench: Benchmarking Hate Speech Detectors on LLM-Generated Content and Hate Campaigns

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International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
SaLoRA: Safety-Alignment Preserved Low-Rank Adaptation

Conference / Medium

Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
Understanding Data Importance in Machine Learning Attacks: Does Valuable Data Pose Greater Harm?

Article

Security and Safety Preface: Security and safety of data in cloud computing

Article

Security and Safety Advancing membership inference attacks: The present and the future

Conference / Medium

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Are We in the AI-Generated Text World Already? Quantifying and Monitoring AIGT on Social Media