Bihe Zhao

Ph.D. Student in Trustworthy Machine Learning

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Third-year Ph.D. student at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. Research interests are trustworthy AI, data provenance for generative models, watermarking, and AI privacy.

Education

2024 – present

Ph.D., Computer Science

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information SecuritySt. Ingbert, Germany

  • Co-supervised by Prof. Adam Dziedzic and Prof. Franziska Boenisch (SprintML lab).
  • Research on data provenance, membership and dataset inference, and watermarking for generative models.
2021 – 2024

M.Sc., Cyber Science and Technology

Beihang UniversityBeijing, China

  • Co-advised by Prof. Zhenyu Guan and Prof. Song Bian.

Experience

Jul 2023 – Nov 2023

Research Assistant

Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)Singapore

  • Proposed a drag-style editing scheme for neural radiance fields (NeRF) under user specification.
  • Designed a matching algorithm to enforce multi-view consistency of the edited scene.
  • Developed a generative model that edits the scene under correspondence supervision across views.
Jan 2022 – Apr 2023

Research Intern

SenseTime ResearchBeijing, China

  • Proposed a query-efficient model extraction attack based on public datasets that outperforms prior attacks by a large margin.
  • Revealed a non-local self-similarity signal for face forgery detection and built a unified detection framework around it (IEEE SPL).
Aug 2020 – Jan 2021

Backend Development Intern

ByteDanceBeijing, China

  • Contributed to a data annotation and management platform.
  • Developed and improved an alarm center with over 20,000 rules for detecting unusual data traffic, in Go.

Awards

2019

First Prize, 12th National College Student Information Security Contest

National College Student Information Security Contest (top 8%)

Face-swap detection based on video watermarking and physical unclonable functions.

First Prize, Academic Excellence Award

Beihang University (top 5%)

Excellent Student

Beihang University (top 5%)

Outstanding Student President

Beihang University (top 4%)

Publications

See the publications page for the full list with abstracts and BibTeX.