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  • 2025-01: Nine papers accepted to ICLR 2025! Including AutoDAN-Turbo (Spotlight), T-Stitch, LeanAgent, MuirBench, and more.
  • 2025-01: Three papers accepted to ACL 2025 on LLM safety: PIGuard, SudoLM, and AGrail.
  • 2025-01: Three papers accepted to NAACL 2025: CVE-Bench, RePD, and Test-time Backdoor Mitigation.
  • 2025-01: JailbreakV won Second Prize of SafeBench Competition.
  • 2025-01: Two papers on Preference Poisoning Attacks accepted to ICML 2025 and IEEE S&P 2025.
  • 2024-12: Fall Research Competition Award at UW-Madison.
  • 2024-11: Lab received funding from Amazon and Apple.
  • 2024-11: SaFo Lab will have a winter break this Dec. Lab members will enjoy some well-deserved vacation time.
  • 2024-11: Jiongxiao will go to NeurIPS to present our paper BackdoorAlign for finetuning based jailbreak attacks.
  • 2024-10: Prof. Chaowei Xiao gave keynote at CCS Workshop on Large AI Systems.
  • 2024-10: Xiaogeng Liu won NVIDIA Fellowship (Security track).
  • 2024-09: Four papers accepted to NeurIPS 2024: HaloScope (Spotlight), BackdoorAlign, Consistency Purification, and AgentPoison.
  • 2024-08: Won USENIX Security Distinguished Paper Award.
  • 2024-08: Selected as Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow.
  • 2024-08: ACM Gordon Bell Final list nominee.
  • 2024-08: Selected in Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List.
  • 2024-07: Four papers accepted to ECCV 2024 on trustworthy VLM and autonomous driving: Dolphins, AdaShield, RealGen, and Hierarchical Feature Sharing.
  • 2024-07: MultiModal jailbreak benchmark (JailbreakV-28K) accepted to COLM 2024.
  • 2024-06: Prof. Chaowei Xiao gave talk on Security in era of Vision Large Language Models at CVPR.
  • 2024-06: Prof. Chaowei Xiao gave talk on Security in era of Large Language Models at NAACL.
  • 2024-05: Prof. Chaowei Xiao gave talk at ICLR on recent progress in LLM security.
  • 2024-05: Jailbreak paper (Do Not Listen To Me) accepted to USENIX Security 2024. Congratulations, Zhiyuan!
  • 2024-03: Five papers at NAACL 2024 on LLM security: two on backdoor attack, one on backdoor defense, one on jailbreak attacks, and one on model fingerprint.
  • 2024-03: PerAda for personalized federated learning accepted at CVPR 2024.
  • 2024-01: Three papers accepted to ICLR 2024: AutoDAN, ChatGPT-powered Drug Editing, and CALICO.
  • 2024-01: Two papers accepted to TMLR: Prismer and Voyager.
  • 2023-12: Invited Talk at NeurIPS TDW workshop.
  • 2023-10: MoleculeSTM accepted to Nature Machine Intelligence. MoleculeSTM aligns natural language and molecule representation into the same space.
  • 2023-10: Three papers at EMNLP and one paper at NeurIPS. NeurIPS paper studies new threat of instruction tuning by injecting Ads into LLMs.
  • 2023-10: Tutorial on Security and Privacy in the Era of Large Language Models accepted to NAACL.
  • 2022-10: DensePure accepted to ICLR 2023.
  • 2022-09: Three papers accepted to NeurIPS 2022.