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Zhangchen Xu

Education

  • Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering
    University of Washington, USA
    2022 - Now
    Advisor: Radha Poovendran

  • B.Eng. in Electronics and Electrical Engineering with Information Engineering
    University of Glasgow, UK
    2018 - 2022
    First Class Honors, top 1%
    Advisor: Lei Zhang

  • B.Eng. in Communication Engineering
    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
    2018 - 2022
    Thesis Title: Blockchain-Enabled Remote Control Cars
    Outstanding Graduates, Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis

    Awards

    • Travel Grant: IPDPS 2023, PPAI 2024, Usenix Security 2024
    • Outstanding Graduates of Sichuan Province, 2022
    • Outstanding Undergraduate Graduation Thesis, 2022
    • Academic Scholarship, UESTC, 2021,2020,2019
    • First-class Scholarship for Excellent Students, UESTC, 2021,2020,2019

    Invited Talks

    • ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-based Jailbreak Attacks against Aligned LLMs (Jun 2024, ACTION Annual Meeting)
    • SafeDecoding: Defending against Jailbreak Attacks via Safety-Aware Decoding (Jun 2024, ACTION Annual Meeting)
    • A Statistical Method for Safety Alignment of LLMs (Aug 2024, 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings - Statistical Methods in Cyber Security)

    Teaching

    Teaching Assistant @ UW
    • EE 418 Au24: Network Security And Cryptography
    • EE 400A Sp24: TinyML
    • TECHIN 513 Wi24: Managing Data And Signal Processing
    • EE 418 Au23: Network Security And Cryptography
    • EEP 595 Sp23: TinyML (Founding TA, course designer)
    • EE 417 Wi23: Modern Wireless Communications
    Teaching Assistant @ UESTC
    • UESTC1005: Introductory Programming
    • UESTC1008: Microelectronic Systems
    • UESTC3030: Engineering and the Law

    Service

    Journal Reviewer
    • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)
    • IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ)
    Conference Reviewer
    • ACL Rolling Review (ARR)
    • NeurIPS
    • ICLR