About
He is a Ph.D. student in the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), advised by Dr. Ang Li. He received his bachelor’s degree from Wuhan University, School of Cyber Science and Engineering. As an undergraduate, he worked as a research intern at the NIS&P lab, under the guidance of Dr. Xueluan Gong, Dr. Yanjiao Chen and Dr. Qian Wang.
Interests
- Causal reasoning
- Explainability
Education
Ph.D. student, 2024 - now
University of Maryland, College Park
Bachelor of Engineering, 2020 - 2024
Wuhan University
Publications
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(2025).
An Effective and Resilient Backdoor Attack Framework against Deep Neural Networks and Vision Transformers.
In the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC).
(2025).
Towards counterfactual fairness through auxiliary variables.
In the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
(2024).
FairViT: Fair Vision Transformer via Adaptive Masking.
In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
(2024).
SDE: Early Screening for Dry Eye Disease with Wireless Signals.
In The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (Ubicomp/IMWUT).
(2024).
MEGATRON: Backdooring Vision Transformers with Invisible Triggers.
Under review.
Experience
Ph.D. student
University of Maryland, College Park
Advised by Prof. Ang Li in UMD CASE Lab.
Research Intern
University of California, Irvine
Advised by Prof. Yanning Shen and Dr. Ruijie Du in UCI Shen’s Lab.
Research Intern
Wuhan University
Advised by Prof. Qian Wang, Prof. Yanjiao Chen and Dr. Xueluan Gong in NIS&P Lab.
I share occasional research reflections on Zhihu.
Contact
- btian1@umd.edu
- +86 13677130812
- 1000 Hilltop Cir, College Park, Maryland (MD) 20742
- Zoom Me