About Me

Hello, I am Tinghao(Vitus) Xie 谢廷浩, a senior undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University. I will be a ECE PhD candidate at Princeton in Sep 2022.

I found the robustness of machine learning being both a “dark cloud” and an attractive perspective to work on. Specifically, my research interest could be described in two aspects: First, I intend to study and solve security concerns involving current non-robust deep learning models; Second, I would like to better understand AI’s behaviors and make their predictions more human-like through explainable and causal methods. In summary, I hope to fully explore the breadth and depth of secure, robust, and reliable AI. Yet, I’m always on my way looking for things that intrigue me, and tend to hold an open mind for whatever is coming. I (wish to) have fun doing research.

Earlier, I finished our project Subnet Replacement Attack (SRA)[paper][code] (CVPR’22 Oral) of the first gray-box and physically realizable backdoor weight attack, collaborating with Xiangyu Qi at Princeton University, advised by Principal Researcher Jifeng Zhu at Tencent Zhuque Lab and Prof. Kai Bu at ZJU. I was also fortunate to work with Prof. Ting Wang on backdoor certification[preview] and backdoor restoration[preview] at Pennsylvania State University as an intern, meanwhile co-advised by Prof. Shouling Ji at ZJU NESA Lab. Even before, I worked with Prof. Jianhai Chen, designed and implemented Enchecap[code], an encrypted (enclave-based) heterogeneous calculation protocol.

News & Facts

• 🛡️ Successfully defended my undergraduate thesis, ready for graduation~
• Two submitted papers of backdoor attacks and defenses available:
  • 📖 Circumventing Backdoor Defenses That Are Based on Latent Separability
  • 📖 Fight Poison with Poison: Detecting Backdoor Poison Samples via Decoupling Benign Correlations
• 🏆 Won the championship in Zhejiang University Body Building Competition (70kg level)!
• 🐯 Will be a candidate of ECE Ph.D.@Princeton in Sep 2022!
• My 🍫-abs (6 packs) are visible!!! To lose fat, healthy diets are just important as appropriate exercise plans.
• Our paper 📖 Towards Practical Deployment-Stage Backdoor Attack on Deep Neural Networks is accepted by CVPR 2022 (oral)!
• 💃 Interested in choreography and street dance. I especially enjoy House recently. Besides that, I do Hiphop a lot, and some Breaking too. BTW, I like Locking and Popping but not so good at them :)
• 🏊‍ Enjoy swimming as an aerobic exercise.
• 🏋 Go gymming regularly.
• 🎱 Billiards, basketball, bowling…