Wendao Yao
Champaign,Illinois
Summary
Driven by a passion for cybersecurity, I excelled as a Research Assistant at ARClab, Zhejiang University, developing innovative LLM jailbreak attacks and co-authoring a paper for IEEE S&P. My strong passion for research is reflected in my commitment to exploration and learning. Through studying PyTorch and neural networks, I have deepened my understanding of machine learning while developing a curiosity-driven approach to problem-solving.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Research Assistant
ARClab, Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, Zhejiang
06.2024 - 02.2025
- Conducting research on LLM jailbreak attacks, specifically developing a novel jailbreak attack method that exploits dialogue history to manipulate LLM outputs.
- Reproduced existing jailbreak attack methods from the existing literature, benchmarking them against our proposed method to ensure a fair performance comparison.
- Developed and implemented our attack method, including designing adversarial dialogue injection strategies and optimizing multi-query attack scenarios.
- Conducted extensive experiments on multiple LLMs, including GPT-4o and Llama-3.1, demonstrating the robustness of our attack against different defense mechanisms.
- Co-authored a paper currently under submission at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), having successfully passed the first review round, and actively contributing to the second-round rebuttal.
Research Assistant
SRTP Project, Zhejiang University
06.2023 - 08.2023
- I studied neural networks, PyTorch, and ByteTrack for football motion tracking.
- Reproduced existing football detection algorithms, and analyzed their performance.
- Gained hands-on experience in object tracking and deep learning frameworks.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
ZJU-UIUC Institue
Zhejiang Province, China06-2026
Skills
- Materials restocking
- Research paper writing
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Verbal and written communication
- Research reporting
Timeline
Research Assistant
ARClab, Zhejiang University
06.2024 - 02.2025
Research Assistant
SRTP Project, Zhejiang University
06.2023 - 08.2023
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
ZJU-UIUC Institue
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