Group Members

We are looking for new Ph.D. students and Master students to join the team !

PI

Sijia Liu

Assistant Professor @Michigan State University, Affiliated Professor @MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.
email: liusiji5@msu.edu

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Syracuse University, United States
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Student Members

Yuguang(Tony) Yao

Graduate student, Computer Science, Michigan State University (Spring 2021 - current)
email: yaoyugua@msu.edu

B.Eng., Automation, Tsinghua University, China

Yimeng(Damon) Zhang

Graduate student, Computer Science, Michigan State University (Spring 2021 - current)
email: zhan1853@msu.edu

M.S., Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, United States
B.Eng., Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Jinghan Jia

Graduate student, Computer Science, Michigan State University (Fall 2021 - current)
email: jiajingh@msu.edu

M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, United States
B.Eng., Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Yihua Zhang

Graduate student, Computer Science, Michigan State University (Spring 2022 - current)
email: zhan1908@msu.edu

B.Eng., Mechanical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Yangru Zhou

Graduate student, Computer Science, Michigan State University (Spring 2022 - current)
email: zhouya31@msu.edu

M.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, United States
B.S., Bioinformatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, China

Jiancheng Liu

Graduate Student, Computer Science, Michigan State University (Spring 2023 - current)
email: liujia45@msu.edu

B.Eng., Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, China

Visiting Students/Scholars

Chongyu Fan (remote)

Undergraduate, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Visiting Time: May. 2023 - Present
Research Project: SalUn: Empowering Machine Unlearning via Gradient-based Weight Saliency in Both Image Classification and Generation

Zhuoshi Pan (remote)

Graduate student, Tsinghua University, China

Visiting Time: May. 2023 - Present
Research Project: From Trojan Horses to Castle Walls: Unveiling Bilateral Backdoor Effects in Diffusion Models

Chen Fan (remote)

Graduate student, University of British Columbia, Canada

Visiting Time: May 2021 - Sept. 2021
Research Project: Sign-MAML: Efficient Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning by SignSGD [Paper at MetaLearn@NeurIPS'21]

Vardaan Taneja (remote)

Undergraduate, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

Visiting Time: May 2021 - Sept. 2021
Research Project: When Does Backdoor Attack Succeed in Image Reconstruction? A Study of Heuristics vs. Bi-Level Solution [Paper at ICASSP’22]

Soumyadeep Pal

Graduate student, University of Alberta, Canada

Visiting Time: May 2022 - Sept. 2022
Research Project: Towards Understanding How Self Training Tolerates Data Backdoor Poisoning [Best Paper Award Finalist, SafeAI Workshop@AAAI'23]

Peter Lorenz (remote)

Graduate student, Fraunhofer Center of Machine Learning, Germany

Visiting Time: May 2022 - Sept. 2022
Research Project: Visual Prompting for Adversarial Robustness [Paper at ICASSP’23]

Hui Li (remote)

Undergraduate, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Visiting Time: May 2022 - Sept. 2022
Research Project: SMUG: Towards robust MRI reconstruction by smoothed unrolling [Paper at ICASSP’23]

Haomin Zhuang (remote)

Undergraduate, South China University of Technology, China

Visiting Time: Oct. 2022 - Mar. 2023
Research Project: A Pilot Study of Query-Free Adversarial Attack against Stable Diffusion [Paper at The 3rd Workshop of Adversarial Machine Learning on Computer Vision@CVPR23]

Visiting High School Students

Jonathan Doredla

Novi High School, MI, USA

Visiting Time: May 2022 - Sept. 2022
Current: University of Michigan

Shreyas Shrivastava

Novi High School, MI, USA

Visiting Time: May 2022 - Sept. 2022
Current: MIT

Brian Zhang

Northville High School

Visiting Time: May 2023 - Sept. 2023
Research Project: Elevating Visual Prompting In Transfer Learning Via Pruned Model Ensembles: No Retrain, No Pain