About Me
I am a second-year Ph.D. student at University of Virginia, supervised by Prof. Tianhao Wang. Before that, I obtained my bachelor’s degree at Southwest Jiaotong University.
I’m always open to collaboration and would love to explore any fascinating topics together. Feel free to reach out to me at email—I’m excited to learn from you!
I’m actively seeking a 2025 summer internship and would be grateful for your support!
Research Interests
- Safety of Image/Video Generation Models
- Machine learning Privacy and Security
What’s New
- [2025.3] My submission for the White-Box Single Table track of the MIDST (Membership Inference over Diffusion-models-based Synthetic Tabular Data) at SaTML 2025 has achieved the second-best result!
- [2025.1] I am very honored to be selected as a recipient of the Internet Society Fellowship at NDSS 2025.
- [2024.11] Our paper titled “Towards Understanding Unsafe Video Generation” got accepted in NDSS 2025. See you in San Diego!
- [2024.11] Our paper titled “White-box membership inference attacks against diffusion models” got accepted in PoPETs 2025. See you in Washington, DC!
- [2024.09] I passed the PhD Qualifying Exam and officially became a PhD candidate!
- [2024.08] Our paper titled “Black-box Membership Inference Attacks against Fine-tuned Diffusion Models” got accepted in NDSS 2025. See you in San Diego!
Publications
Towards Understanding Unsafe Video Generation
Yan Pang, Aiping Xiong, Yang Zhang, Tianhao Wang; NDSS 2025
[Acceptance Rate: 211/1311 = 16.1%] [arXiv] [Code]
Black-box Membership Inference Attacks against Fine-tuned Diffusion Models
Yan Pang, Tianhao Wang; NDSS 2025
[Acceptance Rate: 211/1311 = 16.1%] [arXiv] [Code] [Badge: Available, Functional, Reproduced]
White-box membership inference attacks against diffusion models
Yan Pang, Tianhao Wang, Xuhui Kang, Mengdi Huai, Yang Zhang; PoPETs 2025
[arXiv] [Code]
Pre-Print Works
VGMShield: Mitigating Misuse of Video Generative Models
Yan Pang, Yang Zhang, Tianhao Wang;
[arXiv] [Code]
Volunteer:
AHS Science Fair. Help high school students develop their science projects as part of the Charlottesville Community Science Fair Event. Albemarle High School, February 2024
ACM Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC). Guide people to the event venue. University of Virginia, April 2024.