Faculty
2025: AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention 2025
2025: Best Machine Learning and Security Paper in Cybersecurity Award 2025
2022: Busy Beaver Award für "Privacy of Machine Learning"
2021: Busy Beaver teaching award for seminar “Privacy of Machine Learning” at Saarland University (2021 Winter)
2019: Best paper award at NDSS
Dr. Yang Zhang is tenured faculty member 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.
Usenix Security Symposium (USENIX-Security)
Usenix Security Symposium (USENIX-Security) Stealing Links from Graph Neural Networks
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems On exploring feature representation learning of items to forecast their rise and fall in social media
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
The Web Conference (WWW)
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) GAN-Leaks: A Taxonomy of Membership Inference Attacks against Generative Models
International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) NeuLP: An End-to-End Deep-Learning Model for Link Prediction
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P)