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Liou Tang

Contact:

410 IS Building, 135 N. Bellefield Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 15260
Email: liou.tang@pitt.edu
Google Scholar: Liou Tang

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About:

I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh under the guidance of Dr. James Joshi as part of the LERSAIS Lab. My research focus is on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML), Agentic AI and Cryptography.
A current version of my CV can be downloaded here (last updated Sep. 2024).

Education:

• 2018 - 2022: B.E. in Information SecurityShanghai Jiao Tong University
• 2022 - 2024: M.S. in Information ScienceUniversity of Pittsburgh
• 2024 - 2029: Ph.D. in Information ScienceUniversity of Pittsburgh

Research:

My current project concerns Machine Unlearning (MU) and its related privacy and security attacks and defenses. This project is currently funded by Cisco Research.

Publications:

2025:

• P. He, L. Tang, M. Amin Rahimian, J. Joshi, "Conformal-DP: Differential Privacy on Riemannian Manifolds via Conformal Transformation," in CoRR, vol. abs/2504.20941, 2025. [pdf] [bibtex]
• L. Tang, J. Joshi, A. Kundu, "Apollo: A Posteriori Label-Only Membership Inference Attack Towards Machine Unlearning," in CoRR, vol. abs/2506.09923, 2025. [code] [pdf] [bibtex]
• L. Tang, J. Joshi, A. Kundu, "'Through a Glass, Darkly': Privacy-Preserving Machine Unlearning via Shadow Modeling," in progress, 2025. [pdf] [bibtex]

2024:

• L. Tang, J. Joshi, "Towards Privacy-Preserving and Secure Machine Unlearning: Taxonomy, Challenges and Research Directions," in TPS-ISA, IEEE, 2024, pp. 280-291. [pdf] [bibtex]
• L. Tang, P. Krishnamurthy, M. Abdelhakim, "Is Machine Learning the Best Option for Network Routing?" in ICC. IEEE, 2024, pp. 5425-5430. [code] [pdf] [bibtex]

Academia Services:

Conference Service:

• Web Co-Chair for 2025 11th IEEE CIC/TPS/CogMI Co-Located Conferences

Reviews for Conferences and Journals:

• 2024 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)

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