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General Information
| Full Name | Hongyan Chang (常红燕) |
| changhongyan0530@gmail.com | |
| Languages | English, Chinese |
Education
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2018 - 2022 Ph.D. in Computer Science
National University of Singapore - School of Computing
- Supervisor Prof. Reza Shokri
- Research focus on trustworthy machine learning, privacy, and fairness
- National University of Singapore Research Scholarship recipient
Experience
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2022 - present Postdoctoral Researcher
Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI (MBZUAI) - Working with Prof. Ting Yu
- Research on privacy and accountability of large language models
- Leading development of Privacy Meter open source library
Awards
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2023 - Best Paper Award at ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT)
- Research Achievement Award by NUS School of Computing
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2018-2022 - National University of Singapore Research Scholarship
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2017 - First Prize of the 10th National Information Security Competition on fake news detection for WeiBo
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2015-2016 - National Scholarship (top 1%)
Open Source Projects
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2019 - present Privacy Meter
- Leading development team for privacy research and deployment tool
- 500+ stars on GitHub
- Used for privacy auditing in machine learning systems
- Initial 1.0.1 release leadership
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2021 OpenFL Integration
- Led integration of Privacy Meter into Intel's OpenFL framework
- Real-time privacy risk auditing capabilities
Academic Service
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Program Committee
- ICLR 2024
- NeurIPS 2025
- ACM FAccT Conference 2022, 2023
- PAIR2Struct workshop in ICLR 2022
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Area Editor/PC Member
- NDSS 2025 (AE PC member)
- USENIX 2025 (AE PC member)
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Reviewer
- VLDB 2025 (External Reviewer)
- IEEE Security & Privacy 2024
- PPAI 2024
- IEEE S&P (Sub-reviewer)
- ACM CCS (Sub-reviewer)
Invited Talks
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Fairness in Federated Learning
- FL@FM-Singapore, 2024
- Brave, 2024
- N-CRiPT, 2023
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Trade-off in Privacy and Fairness
- Private-AI, 2022
- Chaspark by Huawei, 2022
- CyberSec&AI, 2021
- PrivacyCon, 2021 by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Teaching Experience
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Summer 2021, 2022, 2023 Teaching Assistant - Trustworthy Machine Learning
National University of Singapore -
Spring and Summer 2020 Teaching Assistant - Computer Security
National University of Singapore -
Spring 2019 Teaching Assistant - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
National University of Singapore
Research Interests
- Trustworthy Machine Learning
- Privacy in Large Language Models
- Membership Inference Attacks
- Machine-generated Text Detection
- Federated Learning Privacy
- Algorithmic Fairness