A Blessing in Disguise: Backdoor Attacks as Watermarks for Dataset Copyright Protection

Dr. Yiming Li is currently a Research Professor in the School of Cyber Science and Technology at Zhejiang University. Before that, he received his Ph.D. degree with honors in Computer Science and Technology from Tsinghua University (2023) and his B.S. degree with honors in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Ningbo University (2018). His research interests are in the domain of Trustworthy ML and AI Security, especially backdoor learning and copyright protection in deep learning. His research has been published in multiple top-tier conferences and journals, such as ICLR, NeurIPS, and IEEE TIFS. He served as the senior program committee member of AAAI, the program committee member of ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, etc., and the reviewer of IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TDSC, etc. His research has been featured by major media outlets, such as IEEE Spectrum. He was the recipient of the Best Paper Award in PAKDD 2023 and the Raising Star Award at WAIC 2023.