Updates
2026
📄✅ Our paper “Privacy-Complaint Human Data Synthesis in Images for GDPR” is accepted at IEEE FG 2026 !
💼📊 Joined Institute of Foundation Models, MBZUAI (Sunnyvale, CA) as a Research Scientist! I will be working in the World Model team.
📄✅ One first-author paper is accepted at CVPR 2026 !
💪 Succedfuly completed my PhD exit seminar / defense.
2025
📄✅ First-author paper, “Empowering Source-Free Domain Adaptation with MLLM-driven Curriculum Learning” is accepted at WACV 2026 !
💼📊 Joined Cisco Systems (San Jose, CA) as an ML Engineer Intern! I will be working on prompt injection attacks on multimodal models in AI defense team.
💼📊 Joined Amazon (Sunnyvale, CA) as an Applied Scientist Intern! I will be working on vision-language models in the Ring Devices team.
📄 New paper, “Co-HSF: Resource-Efficient One-Shot Semi-Supervised Adaptation of Histopathology Foundation Models” is accepted at AAAI Spring Symposium on AI for Health !
2024
🏅 Awarded ECE Best Teaching Assistant Award and Smita Bakshi Digital Learning and Teaching Award!
📄✅ A first-author paper “PerceptAnon: Exploring the Human Perception of Image Anonymization Beyond Pseudonymization for GDPR” has been accepted to ICML 2024!
🏅 Awarded Advancement-to-Candidacy (AC) fellowship for summer 2024.
2023
📄 Our paper “Towards Fair Video Summarization” has been accepted to TMLR 2023.
✅ Passed the PhD Qualifying Exam to advance to candidacy!!
💼📊 Joined Sony AI - Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning team (Tokyo, Japan) as a research intern.
📄 Our paper “Benchmarking Adversarial Robustness of Compressed Deep Learning Models” has been accepted to ICML Workshop AdvML-Frontiers 2023.
2022
🧑🎓📚 Started Ph.D. degree at UC Davis!
💼📊 Joined Sony - Imaging & Sensing team (Tokyo, Japan) as a ML research engineer intern.
📄 A first-author paper “DNN Model Architecture Fingerprinting Attack on CPU-GPU Edge Devices” has been accepted to EuroS&P 2022!
2021
📄 Our paper “Stealthy Inference Attack on DNN via Cache-based Side-Channel Attacks” has been accepted to DATE 2022.
🧑🎓 Started M.S. degree at UC Davis!