I am a Ph.D. student in the School of Computing at the University of Connecticut (UConn), advised by Prof. Yuan Hong, since Spring 2023.

🔥 News

2026.02: Presented our ongoing research as a poster at ABSURD 2026 (Annual Boston Security Usability Research Day).
2025.09: 🎉🎉 Our paper was accepted to IEEE CSF 2026.
2025.07: 🎉🎉 Our paper was accepted to ACM CCS 2025 (ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security).
2025.05: Received the 2025 UConn Predoctoral Award.
2023.01: Joined the University of Connecticut as a Ph.D. student.

📝 Publications

ACM CCS 2025 PLRV-O: Advancing Differentially Private Deep Learning via Privacy Loss Random Variable Optimization
Qin Yang*, Nicholas Stout*, Meisam Mohammady, Han Wang, Ayesha Samreen, Christopher Quinn, Yan Yan, Ashish Kundu, and Yuan Hong
In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Taipei, Taiwan, October 13-17, 2025 (Acceptance Rate: 316/2,278 = 13.9%) | [PDF] | [Code]
IEEE CSF 2026 Lap2: Revisiting Laplace DP-SGD for High Dimensions via Majorization Theory
Meisam Mohammady, Qin Yang, Nicholas Stout, Ayesha Samreen, Han Wang, Christopher J. Quinn, and Yuan Hong In Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), Lisbon, Portugal, July 26-29, 2026. | [PDF] | [Code]

*Equal contributions

2023.01 - present, Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut (UConn), Storrs, CT, USA.
2017.09 - 2020.06, M.S. in Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China.
2013.09 - 2017.06, B.S. in Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China.

2020.07 - 2022.08, Algorithm Engineer (Research Focus), iFlytek Research, iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Hefei, China.