Yimeng(Damon) Zhang

PhD Candidate (Computer Science), Computer Science and Engineering Department, Michigan State University (MSU) 428 S. Shaw Lane East Lansing, MI, USA E-Mail: zhan1853@msu.edu

About me

I received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) from The University of Sheffield, UK, in 2018, and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering (EE) from Columbia University, USA, in 2020. Currently, I am a PhD Candidate in Computer Science under the supervision of Prof. Sijia Liu.

Research Focuses

• Deep Learning: Adversarial Learning (adversarial attack & defense), Computer Vision (image classification, object detection/tracking)

• Optimization: Sparse optimization for deep model compress, Zeroth-order black-box optimization

Recent Publications

1. Zhang, Y., Yao, Y., Jia. J., Yi, J., Hong, M., Chang, S., Liu, S. How to Robustify Black-Box ML Models? A Zeroth-Order Optimization Perspective, ICLR’22 (Spotlight, acceptance rate 5%) [Code] [Poster]

2. Gong, Y., Yao, Y., Li, Y., Zhang, Y., Liu, X., Lin, X., Liu, S. Reverse Engineering of Imperceptible Adversarial Image Perturbations, ICLR’22

3. Zhang, Y., Liu, X. Y., Wu, B., & Walid, A. Video Synthesis via Transform-Based Tensor Neural Network, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM’20)

4. Han, X., Wu, B., Shou, Z., Liu, X. Y., Zhang, Y., Kong, L. Tensor FISTA-Net for real-time snapshot compressive imaging, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’20)

Full list of publications.