About Me

Hi! I am a CS PhD student at University of California, Berkeley, supervised by Prof. Pierluigi Nuzzo.

I spent two and half years at University of Southern California from 2022 to 2024, pursuing my PhD at Computer Engineering. Before my PhD journey, I got my Bachelor’s degree at University of Science and Technology of China with an understanding graduate honor in 2022.

My research interests focus on Trustworthy AI, specifically in security and privacy, with an emphasis on LLMs and GNNs. I am also interested in AI for EDA and neuro-symbolic AI! Feel free to reach out to me if you are interested in these topics and we can collaborate!

News

March 2025 - I'm excited to announce that I will be starting my internship at Synopsys this summer!

December 2024 - I am thrilled that I will continue my PhD journey at UC Berkeley EECS under the guidance of Professor Nuzzo!

October 2024 - I am delighted to announce that our first journal has been accepted by TMLR 2024!

December 2023 - I am excited to share that our first work has been accepted for an oral presentation at ICASSP 2024!

March 2022 - I am pleased to have been admitted to the PhD program at USC in Electrical Engineering!

Work Experiences

Research Assistant, Computer Science, UC Berkeley. 01/2025-present

Research Assistant, DesCyPhy Lab, USC. 08/2022-12/2024

Research Intern, Umich. 09/2020-01/2021
Prof. Junjie Zhu

NLP Intern, Hefei. 01/2022-05/2022
Ifytek AI Research

Publications

Paper
GitHub
Unveiling Adversarially Robust Graph Lottery Tickets
Zhiyu Ni*, Subhajit Dutta Chowdhury*, Qingyuan Peng, Souvik Kundu, Pierluigi Nuzzo
TMLR 2024
Paper Analyzing Adversarial Vulnerabilities of Graph Lottery Tickets
Zhiyu Ni*, Subhajit Dutta Chowdhury*, Qingyuan Peng, Souvik Kundu, Pierluigi Nuzzo
ICASSP 2024 Oral

Honors and Awards

ICASSP 2024 Oral Presentation -slides

USTC 2022 Outstanding Graduates

Services

Program Committee Member of IJCNN (2025).

Program Committee Member of ICLR (2025).

Program Committee Member of ICASSP (2025).


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