Hi, I am Xinyue, 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. Currently, I focus on studying the security, safety, and privacy of generative AIs through data-driven measurement, and on developing innovative solutions to address these challenges. My research has been featured in major media outlets such as New Scientist, Deutschlandfunk Nova, TheCyberExpress, The Decoder, and MAIEI. I am named Machine Learning and Systems Rising Star, KAUST Rising Star in AI, and a recipient of the Abbe Grant from the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung Foundation.

Previously, I was an Algorithm Engineer at Alibaba from 2019 to 2021. I obtained my bachelor degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2019. I am also a sci-fiction writer and have published 40+ novels and popular-science articles on Science Fiction World, Exploration Discovery, and so on.

Research Interests:

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