Research Interests: Large Language Models/Multimodal Large Language Models Security, Agent Security, Intelligent System Security, Machine Learning/Deep Learning Security, AI for Security.
Developed the JADE large model security evaluation and governance platform, open-sourced evaluation benchmark datasets and governance methods, providing extensive support for the industry.
Participated in the development of multiple national and industry standards, including the "Basic Security Requirements for Generative Artificial Intelligence Service" and the "Labeling Method for Content Generated by Artificial Intelligence" by the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee (TC260).
Hosted a number of projects funded by National Key Research and Development Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai and industry leaders (including Alibaba, Huawei, Baidu, Qianxin).
Consistently publishing research in top-tier security and AI conferences/journals, including S&P, USENIX Security, CCS, TDSC, TIFS, TPAMI, ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI, CVPR, and ICDE.
Outstanding PhD and master's publication achievements, with graduates advancing to leading IT enterprises and top universities.
Talks
[2025/08/07] I was invited by the National Academy of Education Administration to record a course for the Cybersecurity Workshop, with the topic "The Past and Present of Large Model Security: From ChatGPT to Grok4."
[2025/07/27] I was invited to attend the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2025 forum "Innovative Development of Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Leadership, Governance Empowerment," where I shared a report titled "Large Model Security Risks and Governance: Fudan Whitzard Assists Responsible AI."
[2025/07/18] I was invited to a live forum at the Huawei Application Security Technology Laboratory, where I gave a lecture on the past and present of large model security, introduced the JADE series of research, and answered various security questions on-site.
[2025/06/18] I was invited to a Huawei-Fudan workshop, where I gave a presentation on the security risks of multimodal large models.
[2025/06/12] I was invited to a joint forum by the Shanghai Computer Society and Huawei, where I gave a presentation on the security governance of general large models.
[2025/04/10] I was interviewed by Nandu Big Data Research Institute, where I shared insights on the security evaluation and governance of large models, pointing out that large models need to learn the essence of safety just like humans. [Link]
[2024/09/19] I was invited to attend the APSARA Conference, where I shared my thoughts in a panel discussion on the responsibility and future of AI technology: ethics, security, and collaborative governance. [Replay]
[2024/01/10] I was a guest on "The AI Chasers" (Episode 34), where I guided listeners through the front lines of large model security, ethical risks, and governance. [Link]
[2023/12/27] I was invited to attend the "AI Development and Governance Innovation Seminar" and gave a presentation on "General Artificial Intelligence Risks and Governance: Starting from OpenAI Q*." Media reports: [Xinhuanet][Huanqiu.com][GMW.cn][Phoenix News]
Students
PhD Students:
Current: Qifan Xiao (2020-), Yifan Lu (2021-), Yuanmin Huang (2021-), Yining Wang (2022-), Wenxuan Li (2022-), Feifei Li (2023-), Huming Qiu (2023-), Jiagui Chen (2024-), Yiming Sun (2024-), Xi Li (2024-), Chen Chen (2024-)
Graduated: Daizong Ding (2017-2023, Huawei), Xudong Pan (2018-2023, Fudan), Xiaoyu You (2017-2024, ECUST)
Master Students:
Current: Yanghao Lv (2022-), Xinnuo Chen (2023-), Zhaoxiang Wang (2023-), Chenyue Wang (2023-), Zhenfei Zhang (2024-), Liangchen Pu (2024-), Yuquan Wang (2024-), Jiahao Gu (2024-), Runjie Wang (2024-), Zixuan Zhu (2024-), Yao Mao (2024-)
Graduated: Xuchen Zhang (2013-2016, ByteDance), Ri Xu (Huawei), Xiaoyang Ma (Tencent), Li Wang (Ant Group), Chengchun Zhu (ByteDance), Ruozhi Huang (2017-2020, Tencent), Duocai Wu (2018-2021, Ant Group), Hanrui Wang (2018-2021, NetEase), Jiaming Zhu (2019-2021, Ant Group), Yifan Yan (2020-2022, Alibaba), Chi Li (2020-2022, Alibaba), Beina Sheng (2020-2023, ByteDance), Erling Jiang (2021-2023, Alibaba), Youhe Jiang (2021-2023, Alibaba), Jianwei Xu (2021-2023, Selected Cadre of Liaoning Province), Shengyao Zhang (2021-2024, Alibaba), Junjie Sun (2022-2025, Alibaba), Zechen Gao (2022-2025, Fudan)
Selected Awards and Honors
Distinguished Paper Award Nomination, ACM CCS (2020)
Youth Outstanding Paper Nomination, World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC, 2022)
The 1st Prize, "Huawei Cup" 2nd China Graduate Cybersecurity Innovation Competition - Large Language Model Privacy Track (2023, Mentor)
The 1st Prize, 6th China Open Source Software Innovation Competition - ModelScope Challenge (2023, Mentor)
The 1st Place, DEFCON Autodriving CTF (2022&2021, Mentor)
The Most Valuable Vulnerability Award, China National Vulnerability Database (CNVD), 2021
CCF Science and Technology Award (2nd Prize in Natural Science), 2020
Feifei Li, Mi Zhang✉, Yiming Sun, Min Yang. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025 (CVPR, accepted), 2025. [PDF]
Yuanmin Huang, Mi Zhang✉, Daizong Ding, Erling Jiang, Qifan Xiao, Xiaoyu You, Yuan Tian, Min Yang. The 29th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS, accepted), 2024. [PDF]
Xudong Pan, Mi Zhang✉, Yifan Yan, Shengyao Zhang, Min Yang. IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Early Access, 2024. [PDF]
Chenghui Shi, Shouling Ji, Xudong Pan, Xuhong Zhang, Mi Zhang, Min Yang, Jun Zhou, Jianwei Yin, Ting Wang. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Early Access, 2024. [PDF]
Yining Wang, Junjie Sun, Chenyue Wang, Mi Zhang✉, Min Yang. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 (CVPR, Highlight), P12322-12331, 2024. [PDF]
Yuanmin Huang, Mi Zhang✉, Daizong Ding, Erling Jiang, Zhaoxiang Wang, Min Yang. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 (CVPR), P19779-19789, 2024. [PDF]
Xudong Pan, Mi Zhang✉, Yifan Yan, Yining Wang, Min Yang. The 29th SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), P1783–1794 2023. [PDF]
Xudong Pan, Shengyao Zhang, Mi Zhang✉, Yifan Yan, Min Yang. The 36th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) , 2022. [PDF]
Xiaohan Zhang, Mi Zhang✉, Yuan Zhang, Ming Zhong, Xin Zhang, Yinzhi Cao, Min Yang. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) , Early Access, 2022. [PDF]
Daizong Ding, Mi Zhang✉, Yuanmin Huang, Xudong Pan, Fuli Feng, Erling Jiang, Min Yang. The 38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), P1274-1287, 2022. [PDF]
Daizong Ding, Mi Zhang✉, Hanrui Wang, Xudong Pan, Min Yang, Xiangnan He. The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), , P372–381, 2021. [PDF]
Xiaoyu You, Mi Zhang✉, Daizong Ding, Fuli Feng, Yuanmin Huang. The 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), , P2434–2443, 2021. [PDF]
Xiaohan Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Ming Zhong, Daizong Ding, Yinzhi Cao, Yukun Zhang, Mi Zhang✉, Min Yang. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) , P757-770, 2020. Distinguished Paper Nomination[PDF]
Xudong Pan, Mi Zhang✉, Shouling Ji, Min Yang. 2020 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) , P1471-1488, 2020. WAIC Youth Distinguished Paper Nomination[PDF]
Daizong Ding, Mi Zhang✉, Xudong Pan, Xiangnan He, Min Yan The 25th SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) , P1114-1122, 2019. [PDF]
Daizong Ding, Mi Zhang✉, Shao-Yuan Li, Jie Tang, Xiaotie Chen, Zhi-Hua Zhou
The 2017 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), P1479-1488, 2017. [PDF]