Yu, Zhiyuan

Educational Background

Ph.D., Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis — 2025
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology — 2019

- Trustworthy machine learning systems
- AI-enabled cyber-physical systems
- Multimodal generative AI
- Usable and human-centric security
- Intelligent healthcare systems

Yu, Z., et al. 2024."Don't listen to me: Understanding and exploring jailbreak prompts of large language models." In 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24), pp. 4675-4692.
Yu, Z., et al. 2024. "Physense: Defending physically realizable attacks for autonomous systems via consistency reasoning." In Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 3853-3867.
Yu, Z., et al. 2023. "Antifake: Using adversarial audio to prevent unauthorized speech synthesis." In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 460-474.
Yu, Z., et al. 2023. "XCheck: Verifying integrity of 3d printed Patient-Specific devices via computing tomography." In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23), pp. 2815-2832.
Yu, Z., et al. 2023."SMACK: Semantically meaningful adversarial audio attack." In 32nd USENIX security symposium (USENIX security 23), pp. 3799-3816.
Yu, Z., et al. 2023. "Codeipprompt: intellectual property infringement assessment of code language models." In International conference on machine learning, pp. 40373-40389. PMLR.
Yu, Z., et al. 2022. "HeatDeCam: Detecting hidden spy cameras via thermal emissions." In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 3107-3120.