Scholar
Hongyang Zhang
Google Scholar ID: wSstCv0AAAAJ
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Citations & Impact
Citations
6,331
H-index
28
i10-index
47
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2025. Faculty Member at Vector Institute; 2025. Google Research Scholar Award; 2025. Top Area Chairs Award for NeurIPS 2025; 2025. Outstanding Meta Reviewer Award for ICML 2025; 2024. Top Area Chairs Award for NeurIPS 2024; 2024. AAAI New Faculty Highlights; 2023. WAIC Yunfan Award; 2023. Amazon Research Award; 2021. 1st place (out of 1,559 teams) in CVPR 2021 Security AI Challenger: Unrestricted Adversarial Attacks on ImageNet; 2020 - present. In the defense benchmark RobustBench, 10 out of top-10 methods use TRADES as training algorithms; Jan. 2019 - Dec. 2019. 1st place in Unrestricted Adversarial Example Challenge (hosted by Google); 2018. 1st place (out of 396 teams) in NeurIPS 2018 Adversarial Vision Challenge (Robust Model Track); 2018. 1st place (out of 75 teams) in NeurIPS 2018 Adversarial Vision Challenge (Targeted Attacks Track); 2018. 3rd place (out of 101 teams) in NeurIPS 2018 Adversarial Vision Challenge (Untargeted Attacks Track).
Research Experience
- Currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo, leading the SafeAI Lab; Previously a Postdoc fellow at TTIC.
Education
- Completed Ph.D. in 2019 from the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, co-advised by Maria-Florina Balcan and David P. Woodruff; Graduated from Peking University in 2015; Was a Postdoc fellow at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), hosted by Avrim Blum and Greg Shakhnarovich.
Background
- Interested in the intersection of beautiful theory and practical methodology, broadly including theories and applications of machine learning and algorithms. Currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo, leading the SafeAI Lab, and a faculty member at Vector Institute for AI.
Miscellany
- Blogs and software projects include EAGLE, The Matrix, and AON-PRISMA.
Co-authors