Ali Ebrahimpour Boroojeny

PhD Student (2021 - Present)
Ali is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UIUC. His research focuses on Security and Privacy in Machine Learning. He is also interested in applications of Machine Learning in Bioinformatics. He is working with Professor Hari Sundaram and Professor Varun Chandrasekaran.
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Tianyang Zhou

PhD Student (2023 - Present)
Tianyang is a Ph.D. student focusing on program language translation and software security, with an emphasis on machine learning for code. Currently he is working on developing techniques for verified C-to-Rust translation and analyze security implications of AI-geneingrated code.
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Qilong Wu

PhD Student (2023 - Present)
Qilong is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UIUC, advised by Prof. Varun Chandrasekaran. Qilong earned an M.S. in Computer Science at UIUC and a B.S. from Nanjing University (Kuang Yaming Honors School). Qilong also served as a research assistant at the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab in 2021. His work focuses on trustworthy machine learning, including multitask and transfer learning, as well as security aspects in machine learning.
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Pragati Meshram

PhD Student (2024 - Present)
Pragati is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIUC. She received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from IIT Bombay, India. Her research spans multimodal learning, vision-language models (VLMs), and generative AI security. She is particularly interested in building reliable and interpretable multimodal systems and understanding their limitations.
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Yiwei Fu

PhD Student (2025 - Present)
Yiwei Fu is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science at UIUC. His main research interest is in privacy, safety, and alignment of machine learning systems. Previously, he worked at Grainger as a applied machine learning scientist, and earned a MS degree at Carnegie Mellon University and BS degree at University of Michigan.
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Tue Do

Master's Student (2024 - Present)
Tue is a Master's student in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at UIUC. He earned two bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from UIUC. He likes to think about randomized algorithms generally, with a focus on privacy-preserving algorithms. He is currently working on private data attribution and in-context learning.
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Taoran Li

Master's Student (2023 - Present)
Taoran is a Master’s student in Computer Engineering at UIUC. His work focuses on trustworthy machine learning and cryptographic protocols. Currently, Taoran's research explores machine unlearning techniques for LLMs.
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Xiangwen Wang

Master's Student (2025 - Present)
Xiangwen is a Master's student in Computer Science at UIUC. She received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Her research focuses on post-training of large language models and trustworthy machine learning, with a particular emphasis on alignment and emerging risks in advanced LLMs.
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