Curriculum Vitae

Yue Huang

A short record of education, experience, recognition, and service.

Education

University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), College of Engineering
Ph.D. Student at MINE Lab, advised by Prof. Xiangliang Zhang.
Notre Dame, IN
Sichuan University
Sichuan University
School of Cyber Science and Engineering
B.Eng. in Cybersecurity
Elite Student · Sichuan University Cyber Science
Chengdu, China

Experience

Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research
Research Scientist Intern, mentored by Zinan Lin and Namjoon Suh.
Seattle, WA
Cornell University
Cornell University
Researcher
Ithaca, NY
MIT-IBMWatson AI Lab Research
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab & IBM Research
Research Intern, mentored by Prasanna Sattigeri.
Cambridge, MA
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University
Knowledge Engineering Group (KEG)
Research Intern, mentored by Xiao Liu and Prof. Jie Tang.
Beijing, China

Talks & Tutorials

Jan 2026Tutorial
Towards Trustworthy and Socially Responsible Generative Foundation Models
Dec 2025Tutorial
Nov 2025Tutorial
Responsible Generative Foundation Models — From Principles to Real-World Impact
Nov 2025Tutorial
Generative Models for Synthetic Data — Transforming Data Mining in the GenAI Era
Nov 2025Tutorial
Socially Responsible and Trustworthy Generative Foundation Models
May 2025Talk
Toward Socially Impactful and Trustworthy Generative Foundation Models
Apr 2025Talk
On the Trustworthiness of Generative Foundation Models
Mar 2025Guest Lecture
Trustworthiness in Large Language Models
@ University of Virginia · Instructor: Chirag Agarwal
Feb 2025Guest Lecture
Toward Socially Impactful and Trustworthy Generative Foundation Models
@ University of Southern California · Instructor: Jieyu Zhao
Jul 2024Talk
Bias of Large Language Models
Feb 2024Talk
Trustworthiness in Large Language Models

Honors & Awards

Jun 2026 KDD 2026 Student Travel Grant
Mar 2026 CHI 2026 Honourable Mention Award
Dec 2025 Tinker Research Grant
Nov 2025 Jetstream2 NAIRR AI Fellow
Aug 2025 NSF Discover ACCESS Project
Aug 2025 NSF POSE Training Award (Industry Mentor)
Jul 2025 Best Paper Award · SciSocLLM @ KDD 2025
Jul 2025 Best Paper Award · DIG-BUG @ ICML 2025
Jan 2025 KAUST AI Rising Star
Jul 2024 OpenAI Researcher Access Program
Jun 2024 Elite Student · Sichuan University Cyber Science
Jan 2024 Microsoft Accelerate Foundation Models Research

Recognition & Impact

Government & Policy

U.S. Department of Homeland Security
TrustLLM highlighted in this report.
International AI Safety Report
TrustLLM included in both the 2025 and 2026 editions — elevated to a core empirical source on persistent deficiencies in truthfulness, safety, and robustness.
International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI
Our Sora review included in the Interim Report (May 2024), the precursor of the International AI Safety Report.
U.S. DoD CDAO Responsible AI Toolkit
TrustLLM listed in the official toolkit.
NIST AI 100-2e2025
TrustLLM featured in Section 3.6 of the official report.
FLI AI Safety Index
TrustLLM adopted as an official benchmark across all three editions: 2024, Summer 2025, Winter 2025.
German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)
Our prompt-injection attack on LLM-as-a-Judge (JudgeDeceiver) included in the official guide Evasion Attacks on LLMs – Countermeasures in Practice (2025).
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
Our Sora review included in three reports of its Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS): 2024, 2025, 2026.
Center for Democracy & Technology
Cited Prioritization First, Principles Second to define "helpful" AI in Anti-Woke AI is a Technical Mirage (2025).

Industry & National Labs

Salesforce · G7 Hiroshima AI Process Report
Adopted TrustLLM's trust & safety metrics (bias, privacy, robustness, etc.) to evaluate its AI models in its official G7 HAIP Transparency Report on the OECD.AI platform.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Built a scalable workflow for evaluating LLM trustworthiness on TrustLLM in a technical report (2024).
U.S. National Laboratories
TrustLLM included in the joint LLNL, PNNL, Sandia and Argonne report Safety in Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities for the U.S. National Labs and Beyond (2024).

Academia & Publications

Springer Textbook
TrustLLM received chapter-length treatment in Introduction to Foundation Models (2025, Ch. 12).
Hoover Institution
Featured TrustGen in their Technology Policy Accelerator.
Notre Dame–IBM Technology Ethics Lab
Selected TrustGen as a Collaborative Project; highlighted Justice or Prejudice? with an official feature and a tutorial video.
Paper Digest
TrustLLM ranked #17 among the most influential arXiv cs.CL papers of 2024 (Oct 2024 list); JudgeDeceiver ranked #20 among cs.CR papers of 2024 (Apr 2026 list).

In the News

Science
Reported on lab safety risks research in Leading AI models miss dangerous lab risks.
Lab Manager · Tech Xplore · Muy Interesante
Further coverage of LabSafety Bench in Lab Manager, Tech Xplore and Muy Interesante (Spain).
ITmedia AI+ · Ledge.ai · MoguLive
Japanese coverage of My Favorite Streamer is an LLM (CHI 2026) in ITmedia AI+, Ledge.ai and MoguLive.

Service

Workshop Organizer
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Socially Responsible and Trustworthy Foundation Models (ResponsibleFM)
KDD 2026 Workshop on Reliable Scientific Foundation Models (RelSciFM)
Journal Reviewer
Nature Communications, IEEE TAI, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE/ACM TASLP, ACM TIST.
Conference Reviewer
NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, KDD, ICDM, WWW, COLM, ACL Rolling Review, EMNLP / NAACL / ACL Demo Tracks.
Technical Committee
2024 IEEE Computer Society North America Student Challenge.

Acknowledgment

My research is supported and recognized by partners and sponsors I deeply appreciate.

Sponsors

Personal

  • Spent 18 years in Fujian and four wonderful years in Sichuan (I can handle spicy food).
  • I enjoy exchanging ideas across fields — it helps me see the world more broadly.
  • Favorite singers: Eason Chan, Steve Chou; lately also Patti Tsai.
  • Favorite sports: swimming and badminton; I also enjoy capturing scenic moments with my camera.
  • Deeply grateful to those who have helped me along the way.