Wenwei Zhao
Biography
Dr. Wenwei Zhao is a software engineer on Google’s Envoy AI Foundation team. She received her Ph.D. degree under Dr. Zhuo Lu at University of South Florida in 2026. Wenwei Zhao’s research interests include secure and trustworthy machine learning, distributed systems, and network security.
Interests
- Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning
- Federated Learning and Machine Unlearning
- Distributed and Networked Systems
- Network and Systems Security
Education
PhD in Electrical Engineering, 2026
University of South Florida
MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2021
Univerisity of Florida
BSc in Optoelectronics Information Science and Engineering, 2019
Hefei University of Technology
Recent Publications
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(2026).
Adapter-Based Parameter-Efficient Adversarial Training for Enhanced Clean Accuracy.
The ACM Workshop on Wireless Security and Machine Learning (WiSec-WiseML) 2026.
(2026).
Consistency-Preserving Logit Shaping for Robust Model Stealing Defense with Applications in Wireless Spectrum Security.
The ACM Workshop on Wireless Security and Machine Learning (WiSec-WiseML) 2026.
(2026).
Malicious Forgetting: Backdoor Injection in Active Federated Unlearning and Countermeasure Design.
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2026.
(2026).
Adversarial Update-Based Federated Unlearning for Poisoned Model Recovery.
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2026.
(2026).
Equilibrium-Driven Vertical Federated Learning with Selective Privacy Protection.
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2026.
(2024).
Detecting Adversarial Spectrum Attacks via Distance to Decision Boundary Statistics.
Infocom 2024.
(2024).
Understanding the Ineffectiveness of the Transfer Attack in Intrusion Detection System.
Network Security Empowered by Artificial Intelligence.
(2022).
PCB component detection using computer vision for hardware assurance.
Big Data and Cognitive Computing.
(2018).
Cyclically Interval Total Coloring of the One Point Union of Cycles.
Open Journal of Discrete Mathematics.
Professional Service
Journal Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
- ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS)
- IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN)
- IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking (TMLCN)
Conference Reviewer
- NeurIPS 2026
- IEEE INFOCOM 2025
Contact
- ww.zhao45@gmail.com
- (+1)352-870-5256
- 355 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142