About me

I am currently a Senior Software Engineer at MathWorks in Security Engineering.

I received the M.S. in Computer Science from Duke University in 2022. My advisor is Dr. Neil Zhenqiang Gong and I have worked closely with Dr. Jinyuan Jia on research projects related to trustworthy machine learning, including security & privacy of AI, LLM security, and foundation model security. I also worked in Cyber-Physical Systems Lab supervised by Dr. Miroslav Pajic in projects involving autonomous vehicles safety. In 2021, I received the Dean’s Research Award for Master’s students. In 2025, my first-authored paper “DataSentinel: A Game-Theoretic Detection of Prompt Injection Attacks” received IEEE S\&P Distinguished Paper Award.

In 2020, I received the B.S. in Stats and B.A. in CS from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities with high distinction. I was also the recipient of the Buehler Memorial Undergraduate Award from the School of Statistics.

My research interest lies in the field of Security & Privacy and Trustworthy AI.