I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Informatics at Emory University, advised by Prof. Kai Shu. I received my M.S. defgree in Computer Science from Brown University and my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. My research interests lie in Trustworthy AI, with a particular emphasis on adversarial machine learning across computer vision and natural language processing. In addition to research, I have contributed to broadening access to computer science education by teaching fundamental CS and AI concepts to high school students through the IgniteCS outreach program.

I always welcome opportunities to connect and chat about research, collaborations, or shared interests.

News

• 2026.08:  🎉🎉 One paper was accepted by CIKM 2026
• 2025.09:  🎉🎉 One paper was accepted by NeurIPS 2025.

Publications

Conference Papers

• Anchoring Bias: A Persistent Fairness Backdoor Attack against MLLMs under Continual Learning
  Yuyang Luo, Kai Shu
  ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2026
• Attention! Your Vision-Language Model Could Be Maliciously Manipulated
  Xiaosen Wang, Shaokang Wang, Zhijin Ge, Yuyang Luo, Shudong Zhang
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025

Preprints

• Query-Only Backdoor Attacks on Self-Evolving Skills via Trajectory Poisoning
  Yuyang Luo, Haoran Wang, Kai Shu
  arXiv preprint, 2026
• Scaling Teams or Scaling Time? Memory Enabled Lifelong Learning in LLM Multi-Agent Systems
  Shanglin Wu, Yuyang Luo, Yueqing Liang, Kaiwen Shi, Yanfang Ye, Ali Payani, Kai Shu
  arXiv preprint, 2026
• Devling into Adversarial Transferability on Image Classification: Review, Benchmark, and Evaluation
  Code: TransferAttack  
  Xiaosen Wang, Zhijin Ge, Bohan Liu, Zheng Fang, Fengfan Zhou, Ruixuan Zhang, Shaokang Wang, Yuyang Luo
  arXiv preprint, 2026
• Disrupting Semantic and Abstract Features for Better Adversarial Transferability
  Yuyang Luo, Xiaosen Wang, Zhijin Ge, Yingzhe He
  arXiv preprint, 2025

Educations

• 2025.09 – Present — Ph.D., Computer Science and Informatics, Emory University
• 2023.09 – 2025.05 — M.S., Computer Science, Brown University
• 2019.09 – 2023.06 — B.Eng., Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Teaching

• CS 350: System Programming, Emory University, Fall 2026 (Teaching Assistant)
• CS 570: Data Mining, Emory University, Spring 2026 (Teaching Assistant)
• CS 255: Computer Architecture/Machine Level Programming, Emory University, Fall 2025 (Teaching Assistant)
• CSCI 1470: Deep Learning, Brown University, Spring 2025 (Head Teaching Assistant)
• DATA 2060: Machine Learning, Brown University, Fall 2024 (Head Teaching Assistant)

Academic Services

• Conference Reviewer/Sub-reviewer: WSDM{2027}, KDD{2026, 2027}, NeurIPS{2025, 2026}, ICLR{2025, 2026}, ACML{2026}, SDM{2026}, COLM{2026}, SIGIR{2026}, WWW{2026}, PAKDD{2026}, ACM MM{2025}, ACL ARR{2025}