Tingwei Zhang
Department of Computer Science Cornell University
Welcome! I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Cornell University, advised by Prof. Vitaly Shmatikov. My research focuses on the security and privacy aspects of machine learning. Previously, I graduated from University of Virginia with a B.A. in Computer Science, where I was very fortunate to work with Prof. Yuan Tian and Prof. David Evans.
Current News:
-📌 I will be presenting our work on “Adversarial Hubness in Multi-Modal Retrieval” at the 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P) 2026 in San Francisco.
-📌 Excited to share that I’ll be coming to the Bay Area and joining Google as a Student Researcher in Summer 2026 — see you in the Bay Area!
Publications
(2026).
Adversarial Hubness in Multi-Modal Retrieval.
S&P 2026.
(2026).
How to Steal Reasoning Without Reasoning Traces.
Preprint, 2026.
(2026).
Adversarial Decoding: Generating Readable Documents for Adversarial Objectives.
Findings of EACL 2026.
(2025).
Self-interpreting Adversarial Images.
USENIX Security, 2025.
(2024).
Adversarial Illusions in Multi-Modal Embeddings.
USENIX Security, 2024 (Distinguished Paper Award).