Jul/2022: Our paper “Understanding Adversarial Robustness of Vision Transformers via Cauchy Problem” is accepted by Research Track in ECML/PKDD’22
Jul/2022: Our paper “PRoA: A Probabilistic Robustness Assessment against Functional Perturbations” is accepted by Research Track in ECML/PKDD’22
Jul/2022: Our paper “3DVerifier: Efficient Robustness Verification for 3D Point Cloud Models” is accepted with minor revision by Machine Learning Journal
Jun/2022: Our Book “Machine Learning Safety and Security” will appear soon in Springer Nature, which is the part of Book Series in Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Theory, and Algorithms
Jan/2022: Our Book Chapter “Deep Learning and Its Adversarial Robustness: A Brief Introduction” will appear in HANDBOOK ON COMPUTER LEARNING AND INTELLIGENCE, World Scientific Pulisher
Nov/2021: Invited to give a half-day tutorial “Adversarial Robustness of Deep Learning Theory, Algorithms, and Applications” in CIKM 2021
Nov/2021: Our paper “Sparse adversarial video attacks with spatial transformations” is accepted by BMVC’21
Oct/2021: Have been selected as Co-lead of Trustworthy AI Theme, IDSAI
Aug/2021: Our paper “Distilling Knowledge from Publicly Available Online EMR Data to Emerging Epidemic for Prognosis” is accepted by WWW’21
June/2021: Our paper “Interpretable Machine Learning for COVID-19: An Empirical Study on Severity Prediction Task” is accepted by IEEE Trans on Artificial Intelligence
June/2021: Congratulations to my PhD students successfully secured multiple CSC-Exeter Studentships this year
April/2021: Invited by Dstl and Liverpool University, I gave a tutorial about our universal adversarial attack tool - GUAP to defence sectors of UK, US and Canada, etc.
March/2021: Invited to be TPC Member and Reviewer by CIKM 2021, NeurlPS 2021, ICML 2021, CVPR 2021, ICCV 2021 and ICLR 2022
April/2021: A paper “Coverage-Guided Testing for Recurrent Neural Networks” was accepted by IEEE Trans on Reliability
March/2021: Invited to give a half-day tutorial “Adversarial Robustness of Deep Learning Theory, Algorithms, and Applications” in ECML/PKDD 2021, with colleagues from Liverpool University
Jan/2021: Welcome Syed Yuns, who graduated his PhD from University of Manchester, to start his Postdoc in our group, working on the ORCA-funded project - AELARS
Jan/2021: Invited to give a half-day tutorial “Towards Robust Deep Learning Models: Verification, Falsification, and Rectification” in IJCAI 2021, with colleagues from Liverpool University and Imperial College London
Oct/2020: Invited to be a Senior TPC in IJCAI 2021.
Oct/2020: A Postdoctoral Research Fellow position now is available, anyone interested is welcome to apply.
Oct/2020: Invited to be a TPC in AAMAS 2021.
Oct/2020: Our paper Memory Augmented Hierarchical Attention Network for Next Point-of-Interest Recommendation is accepted by IEEE Trans. on Computational Social Systems with minor revisions.
Sep/2020: Our paper Enabling Cost-Effective Population Health Monitoring By Exploiting Spatiotemporal Correlation: An Empirical Study is accepted by ACM Trans. on Computing for Healthcare. We conducted an in-depth study based on 10-year's spatiotemporal morbidity rates of chronic diseases in more than 500 regions of London to verify if spatiotemporal correlations can be leveraged for data inference using only a small number of samples.
Sep/2020: Our paper Generalizing Universal Adversarial Attacks Beyond Additive Perturbations is accepted by ICDM 2020, we released our Universal Adversarial Attack tool - GUAP.
Sep/2020: Our tutorial proposal on “Adversarial Robustness of Deep Learning Theory, Algorithms, and Applications” is one of four tutorials that are accepted by ICDM 2020.
Aug/2020: Invited to be a TPC in AAAI 2021.
July/2020: Our paper A Survey of Safety and Trustworthiness of Deep Neural Networks: Verification, Testing, Adversarial Attack and Defence, and Interpretability is accepted by Computer Science Review. We conducted a comprehensive survey of the current research effort into making DNNs safe and trustworthy from four aspects: verification, testing, adversarial attack and defence, and interpretability.
May/2020: Invited to be a TPC in CIKM 2020.
Feb/2020: Our research was covered by multiple media: Lancaster University News, EurekAlert, ScienceBlog, eScience News, Science X, and Heriot-Watt University News.
Feb/2020: Invited by Prof Michael Sheng from Macquarie University, I give a talk about Robustness of Deep Neural Networks in his group.
Dec/2018: Invited to be a TPC member in IJCAI 2019.
July/2018: Our paper Concolic Testing for Deep Neural Networks is accepted by ASE2018 (20% acceptance rate), our testing tool DeepConcolic is released.
June/2018: Invited to be a TPC member in MobiQuitous 2018 and EUSPN 2018.
April/2018: Our paper Reachability Analysis of Deep Neural Networks with Provable Guarantees is accepted by IJCAI 2018 (20% acceptance rate), our reachability analysis tool DeepGO is released.
April/2018: Welcome Long to do his one-year undergraduate research project with me at Oxford University, working on Safety Assurance for Deep Neural Networks.
April/2018: One short paper “Related or Duplicate: Distinguishing Similar CQA Questions via Convolutional Neural Networks” is accepted by SIGIR 2018 (30% acceptance rate)
Mar/2018: Welcome Pawel and Thomas to do their MSc projects with me at Oxford University, working on Safety Assurance for Deep Neural Networks.
Jan/2018: Invited to be TPC members in MobiSPC 2018 and IUPT 2018 (held in conjunction with ANT 2018).
Dec/2017: My PhD thesis is awarded Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence.
Dec/2017: I successfully pass the thesis examination and be qualified for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Dec/2017: One paper on Indoor Localisation is accepted by JNCA.
Nov/2017: Invited to be a TPC member in IJCAI-ECAI 2018.
Oct/2017: One paper on Multi-Modal Hand Motion Detection is accepted by IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing.
July/2017: Invited to be a TPC member in MobiQuitous’17.
Sep/2017: One paper on Spatio-Temporal Sensor Data Recovery is accepted by MobiQuitous’17.
June/2017: Start to work as a PostDoctoral Research Associate at Univeristy of Oxford.
May/2017: My PhD thesis is submitted.