I am a tenured faculty (equivalent to full professor) at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. I sometimes chime in iDRAMA Lab for the memes.

Research Areas

  • Trustworthy Machine Learning, with a focus on LLMs (Safety, Privacy, and Security)
  • Misinformation, Hate Speech, and Memes
  • Social Network Analysis

I’m always looking for motivated students and postdocs to join my group. If you are interested, please write me an email (zhang@cispa.de).

Awards

  • 2025 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention
  • Best Machine Learning and Security Paper in Cybersecurity Award 2025
  • Best paper finalist at CSAW Europe 2024
  • Best paper finalist at CSAW Europe 2023
  • Best paper award honorable mention at CCS 2022
  • Busy Beaver teaching award nomination for seminar “Privacy of Machine Learning” at Saarland University (2022 Winter)
  • Busy Beaver teaching award nomination for advanced lecture “Machine Learning Privacy” at Saarland University (2022 Summer)
  • Busy Beaver teaching award for seminar “Privacy of Machine Learning” at Saarland University (2021 Winter)
  • Distinguished paper award at NDSS 2019

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