About me

I am currently a second-year PhD student at Pennsylvania State University. I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Jinyuan Jia. My research focuses on AI Security & Trustworthy ML, recently focusing on LLM explanation. Previously, I earned dual bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science from RPI, followed by a master’s in Computer Science from Duke University.

Current research focuses

• Transparency of LLM-empowered AI systems
• Provably secure/robust machine learning systems

Publications

* Equal contribution

• Yupei Liu, Yanting Wang, and Jinyuan Jia. TrojanDec: Data-free Detection of Trojan Inputs in Self-supervised Learning, In AAAI, 2025.
• Yanting Wang, Wei Zou, Jinyuan Jia. FCert: Certifiably Robust Few-Shot Classification in the Era of Foundation Models, In IEEE S&P, 2024.
• Yanting Wang, Hongye Fu, Wei Zou, and Jinyuan Jia. MMCert: Provable Defense against Adversarial Attacks to Multi-modal Models, In CVPR, 2024.

Preprints

• Yuzhou Nie, Yanting Wang, Jinyuan Jia, Michael J. De Lucia, Nathaniel D. Bastian, Wenbo Guo, and Dawn Song. TrojFM: Resource-efficient Backdoor Attacks against Very Large Foundation Models, In arxiv, 2024.