Zhiqi (Eli) Wang

I am a first-year PhD student in the College of IST at Penn State University, advised by Professor Yuchen Yang. Previously, I received my Bachelor's Degree of Computer Science at RPI, where I was fortunate to be mentored by Lei Yu.

Research Interests

AI Safety & Security: Exploring vulnerabilities (e.g., attack surface) of AI models and systems, defining them, and mitigating them.

News

[10/2025] Received ACM CCS 2025 Young Scholar Development Program Travel Grant
[08/2025] Paper accepted to ACM CCS 2025

Topics I have investigated

Membership Inference Attacks on Neural Network Classifiers and LLM
LLM Jailbreak Transferability

Pre-prints

Evaluating the Dynamics of Membership Privacy in Deep Learning

Yuetian Chen, Zhiqi Wang, Nathalie Baracaldo, Swanand Ravindra Kadhe, Lei Yu

arXiv / PDF

Publications

Membership Inference Attacks as Privacy Tools: Reliability, Disparity and Ensemble

Z. Wang, C. Zhang, Y. Chen, N. Baracaldo, S. Kadhe, L. Yu

ACM CCS 2025

Code / arXiv

Services

Reviewer: AAAI 2025

Awards

[10/2025] ACM CCS 2025 Young Scholar Development Program Travel Grant (link)

Here's a playlist I listen to while I am coding: