CV

Education

• Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
• M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
• B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012

Work experience

• Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator
  • GitHub University
  • Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template
  • Supervisor: The Users
• Fall 2015: Research Assistant
  • GitHub University
  • Duties included: Merging pull requests
  • Supervisor: Professor Hub
• Summer 2015: Research Assistant
  • GitHub University
  • Duties included: Tagging issues
  • Supervisor: Professor Git

Skills

• Skill 1
• Skill 2
  • Sub-skill 2.1
  • Sub-skill 2.2
  • Sub-skill 2.3
• Skill 3

Publications

Watch Out for Your Guidance on Generation! Exploring Conditional Backdoor Attacks against Large Language Models

Jiaming He, Wenbo Jiang, Guanyu Hou, Wenshu Fan, Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, "Watch Out for Your Guidance on Generation! Exploring Conditional Backdoor Attacks against Large Language Models." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025.

The Ripple Effect: On Unforeseen Complications of Backdoor Attacks

Rui Zhang, Yun Shen, Hongwei Li, Wenbo Jiang, Hanxiao Chen, Yuan Zhang, Guowen Xu, Yang Zhang, "The Ripple Effect: On Unforeseen Complications of Backdoor Attacks." In the proceedings of Forty-second International Conference on Machine Learning., 2025.

MPMA: Preference Manipulation Attack Against Model Context Protocol

Zihan Wang, Hongwei Li, Rui Zhang, Yu Liu, Wenbo Jiang, Wenshu Fan, Qingchuan Zhao, Guowen Xu, "MPMA: Preference Manipulation Attack Against Model Context Protocol." arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.11154, 2025.

Hidden Tail: Adversarial Image Causing Stealthy Resource Consumption in Vision-Language Models

Rui Zhang, Zihan Wang, Tianli Yang, Hongwei Li, Wenbo Jiang, Qingchuan Zhao, Yang Liu, Guowen Xu, "Hidden Tail: Adversarial Image Causing Stealthy Resource Consumption in Vision-Language Models." arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.18805, 2025.

Evaluating Robustness of Large Audio Language Models to Audio Injection: An Empirical Study

Guanyu Hou, Jiaming He, Yinhang Zhou, Ji Guo, Yitong Qiao, Rui Zhang, Wenbo Jiang, "Evaluating Robustness of Large Audio Language Models to Audio Injection: An Empirical Study." arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.19598, 2025.

ConfGuard: A Simple and Effective Backdoor Detection for Large Language Models

Zihan Wang, Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, Wenshu Fan, Wenbo Jiang, Qingchuan Zhao, Guowen Xu, "ConfGuard: A Simple and Effective Backdoor Detection for Large Language Models." arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.01365, 2025.

BadLingual: A Novel Lingual-Backdoor Attack against Large Language Models

Zihan Wang, Hongwei Li, Rui Zhang, Wenbo Jiang, Kangjie Chen, Tianwei Zhang, Qingchuan Zhao, Guowen Xu, "BadLingual: A Novel Lingual-Backdoor Attack against Large Language Models." arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.03501, 2025.

Backdoor attacks against hybrid classical-quantum neural networks

Ji Guo, Wenbo Jiang, Rui Zhang, Wenshu Fan, Jiachen Li, Guoming Lu, Hongwei Li, "Backdoor attacks against hybrid classical-quantum neural networks." Neural Networks, 2025.

Vertical federated learning across heterogeneous regions for industry 4.0

Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, Luoding Tian, Meng Hao, Yuan Zhang, "Vertical federated learning across heterogeneous regions for industry 4.0." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2024.

One Prompt to Verify Your Models: Black-Box Text-to-Image Models Verification via Non-Transferable Adversarial Attacks

Ji Guo, Wenbo Jiang, Rui Zhang, Guoming Lu, Hongwei Li, "One Prompt to Verify Your Models: Black-Box Text-to-Image Models Verification via Non-Transferable Adversarial Attacks." arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.22725, 2024.

Instruction Backdoor Attacks Against Customized LLMs

Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, Rui Wen, Wenbo Jiang, Yuan Zhang, Michael Backes, Yun Shen, Yang Zhang, "Instruction Backdoor Attacks Against Customized LLMs." In the proceedings of 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24), 2024.

Combinational Backdoor Attack against Customized Text-to-Image Models

Wenbo Jiang, Jiaming He, Hongwei Li, Guowen Xu, Rui Zhang, Hanxiao Chen, Meng Hao, Haomiao Yang, "Combinational Backdoor Attack against Customized Text-to-Image Models." arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.12389, 2024.

Backdoor Attacks against Image-to-Image Networks

Wenbo Jiang, Hongwei Li, Jiaming He, Rui Zhang, Guowen Xu, Tianwei Zhang, Rongxing Lu, "Backdoor Attacks against Image-to-Image Networks." arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.10445, 2024.

Adversarial robustness poisoning: Increasing adversarial vulnerability of the model via data poisoning

Wenbo Jiang, Hongwei Li, Yuxin Lu, Wenshu Fan, Rui Zhang, "Adversarial robustness poisoning: Increasing adversarial vulnerability of the model via data poisoning." In the proceedings of GLOBECOM 2024-2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2024.

Secure feature selection for vertical federated learning in ehealth systems

Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, Meng Hao, Hanxiao Chen, Yuan Zhang, "Secure feature selection for vertical federated learning in ehealth systems." In the proceedings of ICC 2022-IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2022.

Towards lightweight and efficient distributed intrusion detection framework

Shuai Yuan, Hongwei Li, Rui Zhang, Meng Hao, Yiran Li, Rongxing Lu, "Towards lightweight and efficient distributed intrusion detection framework." In the proceedings of 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2021.

Talks

Teaching

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