Vera Xinyue Shen

Ph.D. Student

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Hi ! I am Vera Xinyue Shen, a second-year 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. I publish novels and popular-science articles on Science Fiction World, Science Fiction World (Youth), Exploration Discovery and so on.

Interests

Cyber Security from Data-driven perspectives
Social Network Analysis
Trustworthy Machine Learning

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

What’s new?

(2022.10) Our paper titled “Backdoor Attacks in the Supply Chain of Masked Image Modeling” is online. You can read it here!
(2022.07) I have successfully passed the Qualifying Exam!
(2022.05) My first long novel “Help! I fell into the computer” is now serialized in “Exploration Discovery”!
(2022.03) Our paper titled “On Xing Tian and the Perseverance of Anti-China Sentiment Online” got accepted in ICWSM 2022!
(2022.02) My novel “Empty Yellow Crane Tower Here” won EELISA Science Fiction Contest! [newslink]
(2021.04) I will be a Ph.D. Student at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security!
(2021.01) My novel “Lady White Bone” won First Prize of the Ninth Light-year award. Thanks, Kedo! [newslink]
(2020.11) Our paper titled “Evil Under the Sun: Understanding and Discovering Attacks on Ethereum Decentralized Applications” got accepted in USENIX Security 2021!