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Ning Zhang
Google Scholar ID: gwB_pJcAAAAJ
Washington University in St. Louis
Computer Security
Privacy
Cyber-physical Systems
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Publications
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From Efficiency to Leakage -- Privacy Backdoor in Federated Language Model Fine-Tuning
2026
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Think Twice Before You Act: Protecting LLM Agents Against Tool Description Poisoning via Isolated Planning
2026
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AutoDojo: Adaptive Attacks Expose Superficial Defenses and User-Underspecification Limits in LLM Agents
2026
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Minim: Privacy-Aware Minimal View for Agents via Trusted Local Sanitization
2026
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COSMOS: Model-Agnostic Personalized Federated Learning with Clustered Server Models and Pseudo-Label-Only Communication
2026
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Low Rank Adaptation for Adversarial Perturbation
2026
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Trusting What You Cannot See: Auditable Fine-Tuning and Inference for Proprietary AI
2026
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TraceGuard: Process-Guided Firewall against Reasoning Backdoors in Large Language Models
2026
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the 2025 Provost Research Excellence Award
- Best Paper Award from the IEEE ISORC 2025
- Army Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recipient
- Distinguished Paper Award from USENIX Security 2024
- ARO Early Career Program (ECP) award recipient
- Winner of the FTC voice cloning challenge
- Outstanding Paper Award at RTSS 23
- Distinguished Artifact Award from USENIX Security 2023
- Best Paper Award and Distinguished Paper Award at DSN 23
- NSF CAREER award recipient to develop the system availability foundation for real-time CPS
- Joined COVID-19 CTI League to help defend against cyber threats on life-saving sectors
- Supervised student Ruide Zhang who successfully defended his PhD dissertation and joined ByteDance/TikTok full-time
- CTF team won both STLCyberCon CTF and STLCyberCup Hackathon
- Student Ruide Zhang won the runner-up award for the Confidential Computing Challenge (C3) by Google and Intel
- Student Ryan Xu won the first place in the Deloitte CTF challenge
Research Experience
- Leader of the Computer Security & Privacy Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis
Background
- System Security
- Secure execution environment
- Architecture side-channel
- Blockchain
- AI Security
- Trustworthy AI
- Big data privacy
- Software vulnerability discovery
- CPS/IoT Security
- Security in safety critical system
- Cyber resiliency in IoT
- Analog attacks on CPS sensors
Co-authors
13 total
Wenjing Lou
W. C. English Endowed Professor, IEEE Fellow, Virginia Tech, USA
Thomas Hou
Bradley Distinguished Professor, IEEE Fellow, Virginia Tech, USA
Zhiyuan Yu
Assistant Professor in CSE, Texas A&M University
Jinwen Wang
University of Texas at Dallas
Chaowei Xiao
University of Wisconsin - Madison/NVIDIA
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
Washington University in Saint Louis
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Umar Iqbal
Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis