Zhangchen Xu
Education
University of Washington, USA
2022 - Now
Advisor: Radha Poovendran
University of Glasgow, UK
2018 - 2022
First Class Honors, top 1%
Advisor: Lei Zhang
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
2018 - 2022
Thesis Title: Blockchain-Enabled Remote Control Cars
Outstanding Graduates, Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis
Awards
- Travel Grant: IPDPS 2023, PPAI 2024, Usenix Security 2024
- Outstanding Graduates of Sichuan Province, 2022
- Outstanding Undergraduate Graduation Thesis, 2022
- Academic Scholarship, UESTC, 2021,2020,2019
- First-class Scholarship for Excellent Students, UESTC, 2021,2020,2019
Invited Talks
- ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-based Jailbreak Attacks against Aligned LLMs (Jun 2024, ACTION Annual Meeting)
- SafeDecoding: Defending against Jailbreak Attacks via Safety-Aware Decoding (Jun 2024, ACTION Annual Meeting)
- A Statistical Method for Safety Alignment of LLMs (Aug 2024, 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings - Statistical Methods in Cyber Security)
Teaching
Teaching Assistant @ UW
- EE 418 Au24: Network Security And Cryptography
- EE 400A Sp24: TinyML
- TECHIN 513 Wi24: Managing Data And Signal Processing
- EE 418 Au23: Network Security And Cryptography
- EEP 595 Sp23: TinyML (Founding TA, course designer)
- EE 417 Wi23: Modern Wireless Communications
Teaching Assistant @ UESTC
- UESTC1005: Introductory Programming
- UESTC1008: Microelectronic Systems
- UESTC3030: Engineering and the Law
Service
Journal Reviewer
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ)
- IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
Conference Reviewer
- EMNLP
- NAACL
- NeurIPS (Top Reviewer, 2024)
- ICLR