Hi ! I am Vera Xinyue Shen, a Ph.D. student at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, co-advised by Michael Backes and Yang Zhang. Previously, I was an Algorithm Engineer at Alibaba Security Department. I obtained my bachelor degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(UESTC). During my undergraduate study, I had research interships at IUB System Security Group and Alibaba.
Innovation is an indispensable part of my life. I am also a sci-fiction writer and have published novels and popular-science articles on Science Fiction World, Science Fiction World (Youth), Exploration Discovery and so on.
Interests
- Machine Learning Security and Privacy
- Safety of Foundation Models
- Misinformation, Hate Speech, and Memes
Education
Ph.D., 2021-Present
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
B.S. in Software Engineering (Network Security Engineering), 2015-2019
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, UESTC