Zhiyuan Yu
PhD Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis
Zhiyuan Yu is a final-year PhD candidate in Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis, specializing in the security and privacy of AI-enabled cyber-physical systems. His research focuses on bridging cyber and physical components in embodied AI to develop resilient defenses, across diverse domains like autonomous systems, medical imaging, and generative AI (GenAI) applications. His work has received the Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX Security 2024 and the Distinguished Artifact Award at USENIX Security 2023. Zhiyuan’s work has also won the 2024 Federal Trade Commission Voice Cloning Challenge. He has been named a Machine Learning and Systems Rising Star in 2024.