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
- 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 reviewer award at TrustML Workshop 2020 (co-located with ICLR 2020)
- Distinguished paper award at NDSS 2019
- Best paper award at ARES 2014
What’s New
- [5/2025] Rui Wen joined Institute of Science Tokyo as an assistant professor!
- [4/2025] Yixin Wu has been selected for the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2025!
- [3/2025] Rui Wen has successfully passed his Ph.D. defense! Congratulations, Dr. Wen!
- [3/2025] Yixin Wu and Xinyue Shen are named MLCommons Rising Stars 2025!
- [1/2025] Xinyue Shen is named KAUST Rising Star in AI 2025!
- [1/2025] I’ll serve as an Area Chair of KDD 2025!
- [1/2025] Zheng Li joined Shandong University as a full professor!
- [1/2025] Zeyang Sha joined Ant Financial as a senior algorithmic engineer (Ant Star)!