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

Research Areas

  • Trustworthy AI (Safety, Privacy, and Security)
  • Misinformation, Hate Speech, and Memes
  • Social Network Analysis

Awards

  • “Busy Beaver” Teaching Award Nomination for Seminar “AI Safety” at Saarland University (2025 Winter)
  • EMNLP 2026 Oral Presentation Award
  • AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention (Security and Privacy) 2026
  • CVPR 2026 Highlight Paper Award
  • AAAI 2026 Oral Presentation Award
  • AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention (Security and Privacy) 2025
  • Best Machine Learning and Security Paper in Cybersecurity Award 2025
  • ACL 2025 Oral Presentation Award
  • Best Paper Finalist at CSAW Europe 2024
  • Best Paper Finalist at CSAW Europe 2023
  • ICLR 2023 Spotlight Paper Award
  • AAAI 2023 Oral Presentation Award
  • 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

What’s New

  • [10/2026] Our seminar “AI Safety” (2025 Winter) got nominated for the “Busy Beaver” teaching award at Saarland University!
  • [9/2026] Xinyue Shen successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Shen!
  • [9/2026] Our paper “JADES: A Universal Framework for Jailbreak Assessment via Decompositional Scoring” has been selected for oral presentation at EMNLP 2026!
  • [8/2026] Yixin Wu will join HKUST (GZ) as an assistant professor. If you are looking for a Ph.D. position, do contact her!
  • [7/2026] I’m included in the “2026 AI 2000 Global Artificial Intelligence Scholars List” and awarded the “2026 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention” in the area of Security and Privacy by AMiner!
  • [5/2026] Xinyue Shen will join the University of Waterloo (CS School) as an assistant professor. If you are looking for a Ph.D. position, do contact her!