Buyun Liang
Scholar

Buyun Liang

Google Scholar ID: jXnAG9wAAAAJ
University of Pennsylvania
Trustworthy AILarge Language ModelsNumerical OptimizationAI for Science
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
45
 
H-index
5
 
i10-index
1
 
Publications
11
 
Co-authors
7
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - SECA: Semantically Equivalent and Coherent Attacks for Eliciting LLM Hallucinations, NeurIPS 2025
  • - KDA: A Knowledge-Distilled Attacker for Generating Diverse Prompts to Jailbreak LLMs, arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.05223 (2025)
  • - NCVX: A General-Purpose Optimization Solver for Constrained Machine and Deep Learning, OPT 2022
  • - Optimization for Robustness Evaluation beyond ℓp Metrics, ICASSP 2023 & OPT 2022
  • - Implications of Solution Patterns on Adversarial Robustness, CVPR Workshop 2023
Research Experience
  • Before joining Penn, obtained a M.S. degree at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and engaged in multiple research projects.
Education
  • - Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, advised by Prof. René Vidal
  • - M.S. in Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, advised by Prof. Ju Sun
  • - M.S. in Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, advised by Prof. J. Ilja Siepmann
  • - B.S. in Physics, Nanjing University
Background
  • Research interests span Trustworthy AI, Large Language Models, Optimization for AI, and AI for Science.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests include powerlifting, with notable achievements in several USA Powerlifting Championships.