About Me

I am a second-year Ph.D. student at University of Virginia, supervise by Prof. Tianhao Wang. Before that, I obtained my bachelor’s degree at Southwest Jiaotong University.

Research Interests

  • Safety of Image/Video Generation Models
  • Machine learning Privacy and Security

What’s New

  • [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

Black-box Membership Inference Attacks against Fine-tuned Diffusion Models

Yan Pang, Tianhao Wang; NDSS 2025
[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]

Towards Understanding Unsafe Video Generation

Yan Pang, Aiping Xiong, Yang Zhang, Tianhao Wang;
[arXiv] [Code]

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