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General Information

Full Name He, Pengfei

Education

  • 2022-present
    Computer Science PhD
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, Michigan, USA
  • 2020-present
    Statistics PhD
    Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, Michigan, USA
  • 2019-2020
    Statistics M.S.
    Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
  • 2015-2019
    Mathematics B.S.
    Department of Statistics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Honors and Awards

  • 2022
    • CIKM-2022 Student Registration Award
  • 2022
    • KDD-2022 Student Registration Award
  • 2021
    • Awarded the Professor James Stapleton Prize in Statistics, Michigan State University
  • 2016
    • Recipient of Second Prize, Nankai University

Experiences

  • 2024 Summer
    • Research Intern at Alibaba Group (US)
  • 2023-present
    • Visiting research student at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)
  • 2022
    • Research Scientist at James Madison College, Michigan State university

Academic Interests

  • Truthworthy LLMs
    • Jailbreak attacks and interpretibility
    • Data poisoning attacks
    • Understanding of in-context learning and chain-of-thought reasoning
  • LLM Agents
    • Enhance LLM-based agents reasoning
    • Backdoor attacks on LLM Agents
    • Privacy of LLM Agents
  • Adversarial learning.
    • Data poisoning attack and defense
    • Model robustness and generalization
    • Data poisoning
  • Diffusion models.
    • Watermark and backdoor attacks.
  • Machine learning & Statistics.
    • Deep model expressiveness and overfitting
    • High-dimensional statistics

Services

  • PC member/reviewer for AAAI-2022, AAAI-2023, KDD-2023, SDM-2023, ICDM-2023, PAKDD-2023, AAAI-2024, WWW-2024, KDD-2024,SDM-2024, ACL-2024, EMNLP-2024, ICML-2024, NeruIPS-2024, ICLR-2025, SDM-2025, AISTAT-2025, TKDE, TKDD, TMLR, JASA.
  • SPC for TKDD.
  • Volunteer for KDD2022

Other Interests

  • Gym&Muscle; Tennis; Basketball; Badminton
  • Anime; Manga; Pop&Classic, playing Violin
  • Video games!!!