🧑‍💻 Biography

I am a forth year Ph.D. student at University of Virginia, supervised by Prof. Sheng Li. Prior to that, I obtained my master degree at Imperial College London, where I worked with Dr. Sam Greenbury and Prof. Elsa Angelini, and I obtained my bachelor degree at Dalian University of Technology

🎓 Graduation & Job Search

I will be graduating in Summer 2026 and am actively looking for job opportunities in:

• Research Scientist positions in AI/ML, especially related to GenAI & LLM safety alignment, LLM post-training, and multimodality

• Applied Scientist roles in industry

Any recommendations or connections would be greatly appreciated! 🙏

📚 Research Interests

I am broadly interested in Trustworthy AI, especially on Large Language Models, Multimodal Foundation Models, and Generative AI, especially from a safety and fairness lens.

📢 Recent News

• One paper for video temporal reasoning has been accepted by NeurIPS 2025!

• One paper for fairness in retrieval-augmented generation has been accepted by EMNLP Findings 2025!

• One paper for backdoor vulnerabilities in large pre-trained models has been accepted by ACM CIKM 2025!

• One paper for safety of LLM in terms of benign finetuning has been accepted by ICML 2025! (spotlight 🏆 top 2.6% of all submissions)

• One paper for MLLM Editing has been accepted by ICML 2025!

• One paper for domain adaptation has been accepted by CVPR 2025!

• One paper for backdoor detection has been accepted by ICLR 2025!

• One paper for unified black-box backdoor detection on diffusion models with causal inference has been accepted by AAAI 2025!

• One paper for black-box backdoor detection with causal inference has been accepted by TMLR (Featured Certificate 🏆).

• One paper for individual-level continuous treatment effect estimation has been accepted by TMLR.

• One paper for using LLM and RAG for image geo-localization is accepted by SIGIR 2024!

• One survey paper for causal inference is accepted by KDD 2024!

• One paper for causal inference and one students abstract for backdoor attacks on SAM are accepted by AAAI 2024!

🏋️‍♂️ Miscellaneous

I love powerlifting.

Personal Record (up to 2024/12/14):

• Bench Press: 30kg
• Deadlift: 60kg
• Sqaut: 60kg

🐱 Meet My Lovely Cat “Zhu Mi” (猪咪)