My research interests include Trustworthy AI and Privacy-preserving in FL. 
🔥 News
- 2024.10: 🎉🎉 I am invited to be a reviewer of PAKDD’25!
- 2024.08: 🎉🎉 Our paper on privacy leakage of language models is accepted by CCS’24!
- 2024.07: 🎉🎉 I am invited to be a reviewer of ACM CIKM’24!
- 2024.07: 🎉🎉 Our paper on unveiling IP vulnerabilities of GAN-based distributed ML is accepted by CIKM’24!
- 2024.07: 🎉🎉 I am invited to be the IEEE TSC reviewer!
- 2023.08: 🎉🎉 Our paper on formalizing neural network perturbation is accepted by ICFEM’23!
- 2023.06: 🎉🎉 I am invited to be an AE reviewer of NDSS’24!
- 2023.06: 🎉🎉 I pass my first year progress review confirmation!
- 2023.05: 🎉🎉 Our paper on defending membership inference attack in FL is accepted by AsiaCCS’23!
- 2022.04: 🎉🎉 I become a Ph.D. student at the University of Queensland!
📝 Selected Publications
Mengyao Ma, Shuofeng Liu, Mahawaga Arachchige Pathum Chamikara, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Guangdong Bai. ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Jul. 2024.
Uncovering Gradient Inversion Risks in Practical Language Model Training
Xinguo Feng, Zhongkui Ma, Zihan Wang, Chegne Eu Joe, Mengyao Ma, Alsharif Abuadbba, Guangdong Bai. ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference (CCS), Aug. 2024.
Mengyao Ma, Yanjun Zhang, Pathum Chamikara Mahawaga Arachchige, Leo Yu Zhang, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Guangdong Bai. ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), Apr. 2023.
Formalizing Robustness Against Character-Level Perturbations for Neural Network Language Models
Zhongkui Ma, Xinguo Feng, Zihan Wang, Shuofeng Liu, Mengyao Ma, Hao Guan, Mark Huasong Meng. International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM), Aug. 2023.
🎖 Awards
- 2024.09 I am successful in applying for $1000 Travel Grant for CIKM’24, Boise, USA!
- 2022.01 I am successful in applying for CSIRO’s Data61 full scholarship with top-up!
- 2021.11 I win the Dean’s Commendation for Academic Excellence!