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
April 2025 - I'm happy to share that I have been selected as a Young Student Fellow at DAC 2025!
March 2025 - I'm excited to announce that I will start my first 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
Publications
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Paper
GitHub |
Unveiling Adversarially Robust Graph Lottery Tickets
Zhiyu Ni*, Subhajit Dutta Chowdhury*, Qingyuan Peng, Souvik Kundu, Pierluigi Nuzzo TMLR 2024 |
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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).