Harry Yang

I will join HKUST as an Assistant Professor. My research is in Generative AI (GenAI), with a focus on image and video generation. Previously, I worked at Meta as a Research Scientist. I am also the co-founder of Nesa. I received my PhD from USC and completed my undergraduate studies at USTC (SCGY). I am the recipient of USC distingushied alumni.

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News

• Auguest 2024: Complete Security and Privacy for AI Inference in Decentralized Systems accepted at KDD 2024 Workshop. The paper describes a comprehensive framework for ensuring complete security and privacy in AI inference within decentralized systems, utilizing techniques such as zero-knowledge proofs, split learning, and trusted execution environments to protect data and model integrity across distributed nodes.

• Auguest 2024: Hosting roundtable at Foresight 2024 in Hong Kong

• Auguest 2024: Panel talk at ABS 2024 in Taipei

• Auguest 2024: Visiting CUHKSZ

• May 2024: Foresight interview

• April 2024: Panel speaker at Harvard Blockchain Conference 2024

Team Members and Collaborators

• Qiang Sun (UToronto)
• Ser-Nam Lim (UCF, Meta)
• Xiaofeng Liu (Yale)
• Yue Zhao (USC)
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• Hongyang Zhang (UWaterloo)
• Xiaofan Liu (CityU)
• Yaoheng Yang (USC)
• Benyou Wang (CUHKSZ)
• Ailing Zeng (Tencent)

Current Students and Interns

• Zihao Wang
• Yexin Liu
• Xuran Ma
• Weixiao Wang
• Mingzhe Zheng
• Xianfeng Wu
• Wenjie Shu
• Haoze Zheng
• Tianzhi Li