Hi, there! I am a first-year Ph.D. student in System Software and Security Lab at Fudan University, advised by Prof. Mi Zhang. I am interested in Machine Learning/Deep Learning Security. Before joining FDU, I received my bachelorβs degree in Cyber Science and Engineering from Sichuan University.
π₯ News
- 2026.02: Β ππ Our paper on SafeRoPE, a head-level rotation method for suppressing unsafe subspaces in rectified flow matching models, is accepted to CVPR 2026. See you in Denver!
- 2026.05: ππ Our paper on UVR, a unified visual safety regulator for mitigating unsafe visual generation at inference time, is accepted to ICML 2026. See you in Seoul!
- 2026.06: ππ Our paper on S-TRPO, a safety-constrained trust region policy optimization method for reliable diffusion model alignment, is accepted to TPAMI.
π Publications

Optimizing Trust and Safety Regions for Text-to-Image Generation in High-Dimensional Manifold Spaces
Xiang Yang, Xiaohui Li, Yuke Wang, Ninghao Liu
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)

Xiang Yang, Feifei Li, Mi Zhang, Geng Hong, Xiaoyu You, Mi Wen, Min Yang
2026 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

SafeRoPE: Risk-specific Head-wise Embedding Rotation for Safe Generation in Rectified Flow Transformers Xiang Yang, Feifei Li, Mi Zhang, Geng Hong, Xiaoyu You, Min Yang
2026 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Toward Dynamic Topology Obfuscation for IoT Networks With Evolutionary Defense
Xiang Yang, Zhentian Zhong, Yue Chen, Xiaohui Li
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
@ARTICLE{11133585,
author={Yang, Xiang and Zhong, Zhentian and Chen, Yue and Li, Xiaohui and Wang, Junfeng and Cai, Zhiping},
journal={IEEE Internet of Things Journal},
title={Toward Dynamic Topology Obfuscation for IoT Networks With Evolutionary Defense},
year={2025},
volume={12},
number={21},
pages={45848-45866},
keywords={Topology;Network topology;Internet of Things;Delays;Security;Probes;Optimization;Routing;Reconnaissance;Robustness;Dynamic adaptation;Internet of Things (IoT) security;link flooding attacks (LFAs);multiobjective evolutionary optimization;topology obfuscation},
doi={10.1109/JIOT.2025.3601528}
}

Combating temporal composition inference by high-order camouflaged network topology obfuscation
Xiaohui Li, Xiang Yang, Yizhao Huang, Yue Chen
Computers & Security
PaperBibTeX
@article{10.1016/j.cose.2024.103981,
author = {Li, Xiaohui and Yang, Xiang and Huang, Yizhao and Chen, Yue},
title = {Combating temporal composition inference by high-order camouflaged network topology obfuscation},
year = {2024},
issue_date = {Sep 2024},
publisher = {Elsevier Advanced Technology Publications},
address = {GBR},
volume = {144},
number = {C},
issn = {0167-4048},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2024.103981},
doi = {10.1016/j.cose.2024.103981},
journal = {Comput. Secur.},
month = sep,
numpages = {14},
keywords = {Topology obfuscation, Proactive defense, Network adversarial, Hypergraph extraction, Discriminator evaluation}
}
π Educations
- 2025.09 - present, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Fudan University.
- 2021.09 - 2025.06, BS in Cyber Science and Engineering, Sichuan University.
π» Academic Service
- [External Reviewer] ICML(2026)