Yuguang Yao
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PhD student |
About me
I am a second-year PhD student advised by Prof. Sijia Liu in Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University. I did one year research with Prof. Zhichao Cao and Prof. Yunhao Liu in Software Department, Tsinghua University in 2019. I got my bachelor's degree advised by Prof. Hong Wang from Automation Department, Tsinghua University in 2018.
Selected Publications
Yihua Zhang*, Yuguang Yao*, Parikshit Ram, Pu Zhao, Tianlong Chen, Mingyi Hong, Yanzhi Wang, Sijia Liu, "Advancing Model Pruning via Bi-level Optimization", NeurIPS’22. [paper][code]
Yifan Gong*, Yuguang Yao*, Yize Li, Yimeng Zhang, Xiaoming Liu, Xue Lin, Sijia Liu, "Reverse Engineering of Imperceptible Adversarial Image Perturbations", ICLR’22. [paper][code]
Yimeng Zhang, Yuguang Yao, Jinghan Jia, Jinfeng Yi, Mingyi Hong, Shiyu Chang, Sijia Liu, " How to Robustify Black-Box ML Models? A Zeroth-Order Optimization Perspective", ICLR’22. [paper][code]
Research
Adversarial Machine Learning
Neural Network Pruning
Bi-level Optimization
Teaching
CSE 231 Python Programming
CSE 232 C++ Programming
CSE 477 Web Application Development
CSE 480 Database Systems
Service
ICML’22 AdvML Frontiers Workshop student chair
Workshop PC of KDD’22 AdvML, Neurips’22 TSRML
Reviewers of Neurips, CVPR, AAAI, IJCAI, ICASSP