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 and have published 40+ 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

What’s new?

(2023.09) Our research on Jailbreak Prompts got covered by New Scientist and Deutschlandfunk Nova!
(2023.05) Our paper titled “Unsafe Diffusion: On the Generation of Unsafe Images and Hateful Memes From Text-To-Image Models” got accepted in CCS 2023! See you in Copenhagen!
(2023.04) We released a new technical report In ChatGPT We Trust? Measuring and Characterizing the Reliability of ChatGPT on the trustworthiness of ChatGPT!
(2023.04) I will serve on the Poster Program Committee of IEEE S&P 2023.
(2023.03) We released MGTBench, a benchmark for the current machine-generated text (by ChatGPT) detection methods!
(2023.01) Our paper titled Prompt Stealing Attacks Against Text-to-Image Generation Models is online, serving as the first study on prompt stealing attacks!
(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!
(2022.03) Our paper titled “On Xing Tian and the Perseverance of Anti-China Sentiment Online” got accepted in ICWSM 2022!
(2021.04) I will be a Ph.D. Student at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security!
(2020.11) Our paper titled “Evil Under the Sun: Understanding and Discovering Attacks on Ethereum Decentralized Applications” got accepted in USENIX Security 2021!