Yi Liu

PhD Student Advisor: Prof. Cong Wang and Prof. Xingliang Yuan Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong Contact: 97liuyi@ieee.org Google Scholar

Short Bio

He received the B.Eng degree from the Heilongjiang University, China in 2019 (Early Graduation Base On Academic Excellence).

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Education

• B.E., School of Data Science and Technology, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, China, Aug. 2016 - Sept. 2019 (Early Graduation Base On Academic Excellence).

Research Interests

• Privacy and Security (AI security, federated learning, and machine unlearning)

• Edge AI and Computing (federated learning, communication-efficient edge learning)

• Data Science and AI (data pricing, high-dimensional estimation, and learning to optimize)

• Wireless Communications and Networking (5G and beyond, AIoT)

Selected Publications

• Privacy and Security

  • [INFOCOM’22] Yi Liu, Lei Xu, Xingliang Yuan, Cong Wang, and Bo Li, “The Right to be Forgotten in Federated Learning: An Efficient Realization with Rapid Retraining”, in Proc. of INFOCOM, 2022.

  • [KDD’24] Yi Liu, Cong Wang, and Xingliang Yuan, “BadSampler: Harnessing the Power of Catastrophic Forgetting to Poison Byzantine-robust Federated Learning”, in Proc. of KDD, 2024.

  • [ACM MM’24] Yi Liu, Chengjun Cai, Xiaoli Zhang, Xingliang Yuan, and Cong Wang, “Arondight: Red Teaming Large Vision Language Models with Auto-generated Multi-modal Jailbreak Prompts”, in Proc. of ACM MM, 2024.

• Federated Learning

  • [IEEE IoTJ] Yi Liu, Sahil Garg, Jiangtian Nie, Yang Zhang, Zehui Xiong, Jiawen Kang, and M. Shamim Hossain, “Deep Anomaly Detection for Time-series Data in Industrial IoT: A Communication-Efficient On-device Federated Learning Approach,” in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 6348-6358, 15 April, 2021. (IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Paper Award)

  • [IEEE IoTJ] Yi Liu, James J.Q.Yu, Jiawen Kang, Dusit Niyato, and Shuyu Zhang, “Privacy-Preserving Traffic Flow Prediction: A Federated Learning Approach,” in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 7751-7763, Aug. 2020. (Second Prize of Guangdong Computer Federation Outstanding Research Paper Award)

Some Useful Links

• Computer Security Conference Ranking and Statistic

  • http://jianying.space/conference-ranking.html, ranked by a quantitative metric, Conference Impact Factor (CIF), proposed and maintained by Dr. Jianying Zhou

  • http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/guofei/sec_conf_stat.htm

• Networking Conferences Statistics

• CFP

  • Security and Privacy Conference Deadlines (https://sec-deadlines.github.io/)

  • AI Conference Deadlines (https://aideadlin.es/?sub=ML,DM)

  • CCF Conference Deadlines (https://ccfddl.github.io/)