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I am a second-year computer science Ph.D. student at Northwestern University, working with Prof. Xinyu. My research interests lie in reinforcement learning and secure machine learning. I hold B.S. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2021). If you have any research issue, feel free to contact me! Enjoy research and life :)

news

Apr 18, 2024 Our GPTFuzzer work won Geekcon 2023 Annual Themed Debate Breakthrough Awards and was covered by SECGEEK.
Apr 16, 2024 Our bandfuzz work won first prize in SBFT and was covered in news.
Nov 29, 2023 Our prompt injection work on custom GPTs was covered on WIRED.
Dec 2, 2022 Our work was accepted by USENIX Security 2023!

selected publications

  1. ICML
    RICE: Breaking Through the Training Bottlenecks of Reinforcement Learning with Explanation
    Spotlight Top-3.5%
    Zelei Cheng, Xian Wu, Jiahao Yu, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning 2024
  2. arXiv
    GPTFUZZER: Red Teaming Large Language Models with Auto-Generated Jailbreak Prompts
    Geekcon 2023 Annual Themed Debate Breakthrough Awards
    Jiahao Yu, Xingwei Lin, Zheng Yu, and 1 more author
    In 2023
  3. USENIX
    AIRS Explanation for Deep Reinforcement Learning based Security Applications
    Jiahao Yu, Wenbo Guo, Qi Qin, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2023 USENIX Security 2022