Liou Tang
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) and game-theoretic approaches to security and privacy of ML.
A current version of my CV can be downloaded here (last updated Feb. 2026).
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.
I'm also exploring topics on Quantum Machine Learning (QML) and its security & privacy issues.
Publications:
2026:
L. Tang, J. Joshi, A. Kundu, "No Honor Among Behavioral Auditing of Machine Unlearning," in progress, 2026.
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2025:
- P. He, L. Tang, M. Amin Rahimian, J. Joshi, "Density-Aware Noise Mechanisms for Differential Privacy on Riemannian Manifolds via Conformal Transformation," in CoRR, vol. abs/2504.20941, 2025.
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- L. Tang, J. Joshi, A. Kundu, "Apollo: A Posteriori Label-Only Membership Inference Attack Towards Machine Unlearning," in CoRR, vol. abs/2506.09923, 2025.
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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.
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- L. Tang, P. Krishnamurthy, M. Abdelhakim, "Is Machine Learning the Best Option for Network Routing?" in ICC. IEEE, 2024, pp. 5425-5430.
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Academia Services:
Conference Service:
- Session Chair for 2025 7th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI)
- Web Co-Chair for IEEE CIC/TPS/CogMI Co-Located Conferences, 2025-2026
Reviews for Conferences and Journals:
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
- IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD)
- 2026 16th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY)
- 2025 7th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (TPS-ISA) (sub-reviewer)
- NeurIPS 2025 (sub-reviewer)
- 2024 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)
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