Guanhong Tao
I am an incoming Assistant Professor in Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah starting Fall 2024. My research focuses on the security and safety of AI-enabled systems, aiming to empower system providers and individual users to counteract attacks and biases. I am broadly interested in a range of topics in Security and Privacy relating to machine learning, including backdoor threats, adversarial generative AI, and machine learning for security. My projects are consistently published in conferences such as IEEE S&P / USENIX Security / CCS / NDSS, NeurIPS / ICML / ICLR, CVPR / ECCV / ACL, and ICSE / FSE. I am a recipient of Maurice H. Halstead Memorial Award (for exemplary contributions to software engineering research), ECCV AROW Workshop Best Paper Award (2022), and OOPSLA Distinguished Paper Award (2019).
I obtained my Ph.D. from Purdue University under the supervision of Xiangyu Zhang. I received my bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University.
News
Jun, 2024 | One paper accepted to USENIX Security 2024. Congrats to Shengwei and Lu! |
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May, 2024 | Invited to serve on the Program Committee of IEEE S&P 2025 |
May, 2024 | Successfully passed the Ph.D. dissertation defense |
Apr, 2024 | Four papers to appear in IEEE S&P 2024 |
Selected Publications
- ICLRFLIP: A Provable Defense Framework for Backdoor Mitigation in Federated LearningIn Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, Kigali, Rwanda, 2023
Awards & Honors
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ECCV 2022 AROW Workshop Best Paper Award, Oct 2022
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ICLR Highlighted Reviewer, Apr 2022
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CSAW 2021 Best Applied Security Paper Award TOP-10 Finalists, Nov 2021
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OOPSLA 2019 Distinguished Paper Award, Oct 2019
Teaching
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Guest Lecture, CS 431: Software Engineering, Rutgers University, Spring 2023
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Guest Lecture, CS 529: Security Analytics, Purdue University, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
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Teaching Assistant, CS 240: Programming in C, Purdue University, Spring 2020
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Teaching Assistant, CS 590: Program Analysis For Deep Learning, Purdue University, Fall 2019
Services
- Program Chair / Organizer
- BANDS The 1st ICLR Workshop on Backdoor Attacks and Defenses in Machine Learning
- AISCC NDSS 2024 Workshop on AI System with Confidential Computing
- Program Committee / Reviewer
- IEEE S&P IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy:
2021
(Shadow),2025
- RAID International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses:
2024
- FSE ACM Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering:
2023
(Artifact Evaluation) - NeurIPS Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems:
2021
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- ICML International Conference on Machine Learning:
2021
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- ICLR International Conference on Learning Representations:
2022
(Highlighted),2023
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- CVPR IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition:
2022
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- ECCV European Conference on Computer Vision:
2022
- ICCV International Conference on Computer Vision:
2023
- ACL Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics:
2023
- EMNLP Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing:
2023
- AAAI Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence:
2024
- DPML ICLR Workshop on Distributed and Private Machine Learning:
2021
- AGI ICLR AGI Workshop:
2024
- TDSC IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
- T-IFS IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security
- TOPS ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
- TMLR Transactions on Machine Learning Research
- IEEE S&P IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy: