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]