Hi, I am Xinyue (pronounced “Shin-Yueh” 🔊), and I go by Vera. I am a Ph.D. student at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, co-advised by Michael Backes and Yang Zhang.

My research interests lie in Trustworthy Machine Learning. Broadly, I focus on studying the security, safety, and privacy of generative AIs, and on developing innovative solutions to address these challenges. My research has been acknowledged by Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and featured in major media like New Scientist and Deutschlandfunk Nova. I am also named Machine Learning and Systems Rising Star 2025, KAUST Rising Star in AI 2025, Heidelberg Laureate Forum Young Researcher 2024, and a recipient of the Abbe Grant from the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung Foundation.

I have two year industrial experience of working as an algorithm engineer at Alibaba. I obtained my bachelor degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2019. Outside of research, I also write sci-fi novels and popular-science articles to make AI and Cybersecurity more accessible to the general public.

Research Interests:

• Security of generative AI and LLM agents: [S&P’25a], [S&P’25b], [ACL’25a], [ACL’25b], [ACL’25c], [CCS’24a], [CCS’24b], [USENIX’24]
• Hate speech/unsafe images/bias detection: CCS’25[USENIX’25a], [USENIX’25b], [EMNLP’24a], [CCS’23]
• Social network analysis: [ICWSM’24], [EMNLP’24b], [ICWSM’22]