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General Information

Full Name Hongyan Chang (常红燕)
Email changhongyan0530@gmail.com
Languages English, Chinese

Education

  • 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

  • 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

  • 2023
    • Best Paper Award at ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT)
    • Research Achievement Award by NUS School of Computing
  • 2018-2022
    • National University of Singapore Research Scholarship
  • 2017
    • First Prize of the 10th National Information Security Competition on fake news detection for WeiBo
  • 2015-2016
    • National Scholarship (top 1%)

Open Source Projects

  • 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
  • 2021
    OpenFL Integration
    • Led integration of Privacy Meter into Intel's OpenFL framework
    • Real-time privacy risk auditing capabilities

Academic Service

  • Program Committee
    • ICLR 2024
    • NeurIPS 2025
    • ACM FAccT Conference 2022, 2023
    • PAIR2Struct workshop in ICLR 2022
  • Area Editor/PC Member
    • NDSS 2025 (AE PC member)
    • USENIX 2025 (AE PC member)
  • Reviewer
    • VLDB 2025 (External Reviewer)
    • IEEE Security & Privacy 2024
    • PPAI 2024
    • IEEE S&P (Sub-reviewer)
    • ACM CCS (Sub-reviewer)

Invited Talks

  • Fairness in Federated Learning
    • FL@FM-Singapore, 2024
    • Brave, 2024
    • N-CRiPT, 2023
  • 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

  • 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