Yechao Zhang
Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Wuhan, Hubei, Singapore
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Top SchoolYechao Zhang is a Research Fellow at the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, with a Ph.D. in Cyberspace Security from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and nine years of professional experience. He has recent hands-on research internships at Tencent AI Lab and Ant Group, focusing on agent development and LLM security respectively, bridging academic rigor with practical AI safety work. His background centers on cybersecurity for AI systems, combining theoretical foundations from his doctoral studies with applied experimentation in industrial labs. Based in Wuhan and now working in Singapore, he brings a global perspective to threat modeling and secure AI deployment. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves smoothly between research design and prototype implementation, often uncovering subtle attack surfaces that others overlook.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor's Degree Cyberspace Security, Doctor's Degree Cyberspace Security at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (17)
apple-music7
itunes7
music6
spotify6
data-augmentation5
menubar5
adversarial-attacks5
markdown3
retrieval2
macos2
bitcoin1
crypto1
pytorch1
computer-vision1
cryptocurrency1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CGCL-codes/AdvHash
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
CGCL-codes/TransferAttackSurrogates
Aug 2023 - Aug 2024
The official code of IEEE S&P 2024 paper "Why Does Little Robustness Help? A Further Step Towards Understanding Adversarial Transferability". We study how to train surrogates model for boosting transfer attack.
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year
adversarial-attacksadversarial-trainingblack-box-attackdata-augmentationdistribution-shift
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