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General Information

Full Name Jiahao Yu
Date of Birth 22nd April 1999
Languages English, Chinese

Education

  • Sep 2021 - Now
    Ph.D., Computer Science
    Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
    • Advisor - Prof. Xinyu Xing
    • GPA - 3.85/4.0
  • Sep 2017 - Jul 2021
    B.S, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
    • Advisor - Prof. Liyao Xiang
    • Zhiyuan Honor Program
    • GPA - 3.6/4.0

Experience

  • Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
    Research Intern
    ByteDance, San Francisco, USA
    • LLM Red-teaming Benchmarking
    • Advisor - Dr. Zhenqing Luo
  • Jun 2024 - Sep 2024
    Research Intern
    University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
    • LLM for Vulnerability Detection
    • Advisor - Dr. Kexin Pei
  • Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
    Research Intern
    Ant Group, Hangzhou, China
    • Automatically Red-teaming Large Language Models
    • Advisor - Xingwei Lin
  • Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
    Research Intern
    MSRA, Beijing, China
    • Adversarial Attack against PowerShell Malware Detector
    • Advisor - Dr. Bin Zhu

Honors and Awards

  • 2017-2021
    • Zhiyuan Honor Program
    • CNY20,000
  • 2020
    • 1st place in Zhiyuan Scholor Award
    • CNY5,000

Academic Interests

  • AI Security and Large Language Models
    • LLM explainability and adversarial robustness
    • Automated program patch generation and vulnerability identification
    • Securing blockchain systems with AI
    • LLM red-teaming and jailbreak attacks
  • Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
    • Fuzzing and vulnerability detection
    • Malware analysis and mutation
    • Explainable deep reinforcement learning
    • Noise resistance in ML algorithms