Yiwei (Chloe) Zhang (张一苇) PhD Student Department of Computer Science Purdue University Email: yiweizhang [AT] purdue.edu, yiweiz.evie [AT] gmail.com CV

I have enrolled in the CS PhD program of Purdue University in August, 2022. I received my master's degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2022. I received my bachelor's degree in Information Security from Xidian University in 2019.

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Research Interests

Integrating LLM/NLP/ML into Program Analysis, ML Privacy, IoT Security, Mobile Security.

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Current Works

• Harmful fine-tuning
  
• Utilizing LLMs to Detect Vulnerable Custom Authentication Schemes in Open-source Projects
  

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Publications

• Standing Firm in 5G: A Single-Round, Dropout-Resilient Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning
  Yiwei Zhang, Rouzbeh Behnia, Imtiaz Karim, Attila A Yavuz, Elisa Bertino
  In WiSec '25: 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks
  
  
• Efficient Full-Stack Private Federated Deep Learning with Post-Quantum Security
  Yiwei Zhang, Rouzbeh Behnia, Attila A Yavuz, Reza Ebrahimi, Elisa Bertino
  In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  
  
• Uncovering Attacks and Defenses in Secure Aggregation for Federated Deep Learning
  Yiwei Zhang, Rouzbeh Behnia, Attila A Yavuz, Reza Ebrahimi, Elisa Bertino
  In ICDM '24: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
  
  
• Medusa Attack: Exploring Security Hazards of In-App QR Code Scanning
  Xing Han, Yuheng Zhang, Xue Zhang, Zeyuan Chen, Mingzhe Wang, Yiwei Zhang, Siqi Ma, Yu Yu, Elisa Bertino, Juanru Li
  In USENIX Security '23: The 32nd USENIX Security Symposium
  
  
• EvilScreen Attack: Smart TV Hijacking via Multi-channel Remote Control Mimicry
  Yiwei Zhang, Siqi Ma, Tiancheng Chen, Juanru Li, Robert H. Deng, Elisa Bertino
  In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2023)
  
  
• KingFisher: Unveiling Insecurely Used Credentials in IoT-to-Mobile Communications
  Yiwei Zhang, Siqi Ma, Juanru Li, Dawu Gu, Elisa Bertino
  In DSN '22: The 52nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Proceedings
  
  
• Goshawk: Hunting Memory Corruptions via Structure-Aware and Object-Centric Memory Operation Synopsis
  Yunlong Lyu, Yi Fang, Yiwei Zhang, Qibin Sun, Siqi Ma, Elisa Bertino, Kangjie Lu, Juanru Li
  In S&P '22: The 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Proceedings
  
  
• Rethinking the Security of IoT from the Perspective of Developer Customized Device-Cloud Interaction
  Yiwei Zhang, Juanru Li, Dawu Gu
  In SAC '22: The 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing Proceedings
  
  
• PEDroid: Automatically Extracting Patches from Android App Updates
  Hehao Li, Yizhuo Wang, Yiwei Zhang, Juanru Li, Dawu Gu
  In ECOOP '22: The 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Proceedings
  
  

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Other Works

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About me

Hi there!
I’m a photography enthusiast who loves capturing little sparks of life through the lens — from street scenes to sunsets, I’m always chasing the perfect shot.

When I’m not taking photos, you’ll probably find me watching sports anime and getting way too emotionally invested in fictional tournaments — “Haikyu!!,” “Ace of Diamond,” and “Run with the Wind” are basically my comfort shows.

I’m also into music and festivals — nothing beats the energy of a live crowd and good vibes.

Oh, and once upon a time, I was a LOL player (Team WE forever!).

Please free to contact me for anything!!

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