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Zihan Wang

Ph.D. Student
School of EECS,
The University of Queensland
zihan.wang[at]uq[dot]edu[dot]au


About Me

I am a PhD student at the University of Queensland, working under the supervision of A/Prof. Guangdong Bai and Dr. Jason Xue. I’m currently serving as the HDR representative for the CSS discipline. My research is generously supported by the RTP Scholarship and CSIRO’s Data61 Top-up Scholarship. I am also honored with the Google PhD Fellowship, 2024.

Research Interests

My research interests are to tackle real-world security & privacy issues of ML systems in a formally verifiable manner. I also work closely with my colleague Zhongkui Ma on neural network verification (NNV). Some of my recent projects include:

AI Model Usage Control

ML Privacy Compliance

Efficient Machine Learning

News

Older news (2022–2023)
  • [Dec. 2023] Our paper on deep data hiding has been accepted to IEEE TCSS.
  • [Oct. 2023] Our paper on knowledge distillation has been accepted to WACV’24.
  • [Aug. 2023] Our paper on formalizing LMs perturbation has been accepted to ICFEM’23.
  • [Dec. 2022] Graduated with a B.CS (Adv.) from the University of Adelaide (2020–22).
  • [Nov. 2022] Presented at my first conference, NeurIPS, in New Orleans!
  • [Sep. 2022] Our paper on multi-modal model MIA has been accepted to NeurIPS’22.

Selected Publications

  1. WWW'25
    Zihan Wang, Zhongkui Ma, Xinguo Feng, Zhiyang Mei, Zhiyong Ma, Derui Wang, Minhui Xue, Guangdong Bai.
    The Web Conference (WWW), Apr. 2025.
  2. OOPSLA'25
    Zhongkui Ma, Zihan Wang, Guangdong Bai.
    The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Oct. 2025.
  3. S&P'24
    Zihan Wang, Zhongkui Ma, Xinguo Feng, Ruoxi Sun, Hu Wang, Minhui Xue, Guangdong Bai.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), Mar. 2024.
  4. TCSS
    Zihan Wang, Olivia Byrnes, Hu Wang, Ruoxi Sun, Congbo Ma, Huaming Chen, Qi Wu, Minhui Xue.
    IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), Dec. 2023.
  5. USENIX'24
    Shuofeng Liu, Zihan Wang, Minhui Xue, Long Wang, Yuanchao Zhang, Guangdong Bai.
    USENIX Security, Feb. 2024.
  6. CCS'24
    Xinguo Feng, Zhongkui Ma, Zihan Wang, Chegne Eu Joe, Mengyao Ma, Alsharif Abuadbba, Guangdong Bai.
    ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference (CCS), Aug. 2024.
  7. NeurIPS'22
    Pingyi Hu, Zihan Wang, Ruoxi Sun, Hu Wang, Minhui Xue.
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Sep. 2022.
  8. WACV'24
    Liyang Liu, Zihan Wang, Minh Hieu Phan, Bowen Zhang, Jinchao Ge, Yifan Liu.
    IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Oct. 2023.