About Me
I am Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State and a part-time research scientist at Meta. I conduct research at the intersection of machine learning, privacy, and security. I direct the Algorithmic Learning, Privacy, and Security (ALPS) Lab. My ongoing work focuses on making AI systems practically useful via providing
- Security Assurance – resilient against malicious manipulations
- Privacy Preservation – respectful for individual privacy
- Decision-Making Transparency – interpretable to human perception
I joined Penn State in Fall 2019. Prior to that I was an assistant professor at Lehigh. I received my doctoral degree from Georgia Tech and finished my undergrad study at Zhejiang University (China).
Recent News
- 1 paper on Adversarial Text Attack accepted by KDD '22.
- Ren >> Meta, Zhaohan >> Uber, Changjiang >> JD. Enjoy your summer!
- Ting is tenured and promoted. Thank you, Penn State!
- 1 paper on Stability of Deep Learning Interpretability accepted by CCS '22.
- 1 paper on Android App Analysis accepted by ISSTA '22.
- 1 paper on Transferable Adversarial Attack accepted by S&P '22.
- 6 papers on (i) AutoML, (ii) Deepfake, (iii) Vehicle Diagnostic Protocol, (iv) Label Inference Attack, (v) Cyber Attack Causality Analysis, and (vi) Android App Fingerprinting accepted by USENIX '22.
- 2 papers on (i) Neural Backdoor Evaluation and (ii) Fair and Robust Classification accepted by Euro S&P '22.
- 1 paper on Hard-Label Adversarial Attack on Text accepted by AAAI '22.
- 2 papers on Android Access Control and App Fingerprinting accepted by NDSS '22.
- NSF Award for Extreme-Scale Edge Learning for Healthcare. Thank you, NSF!
- Ting recognized with Research Excellence Award. Thank you, Penn State!
- Xinyang >> Baidu Research. Congrats!
- Zheng >> CS@Northwestern. Congrats!
- 2 papers on (i) RNN Certification and (ii) Transferable Backdoor Attack accepted by CCS '21.
- 1 paper on Language Model Backdoor accepted by Euro S&P '21.
- 3 papers on (i) Graph Backdoor, (ii) Fuzzing Evaluation, and (iii) Attacks on Lane Detection accepted by USENIX '21.
- 1 paper on Interactive Interpretability accepted by AAAI '21.
Contact Information
- 📩 ting@psu.edu (or inbox.ting@gmail.com)
- 📞 1 (814) 865-0988
- 📪 E369 Westgate Building, University Park, PA 16802
Join Us!
We are ALWAYS looking for motivated and bright (under)grad students and postdocs. If you know how to build/hack AI systems, we should talk! Please email me your resume and set up a time to discuss your potential fit to our team.