avatar

Wenzhe Yi (易文哲)

Currently a Ph.D. student at Wuhan University

About Me

Hi! My name is Wenzhe Yi (易文哲), I’m currently a Ph.D. student (2024 Fall 1+4 program) at the School of Cyber Science and EngineeringWuhan University. Before that, I obtained my Bachelor’s degree from Wuhan University, supervised by Prof. Juan Wang.

Research Interest

  • Trustworthy machine learning (safety, privacy, and security)

  • Confidential Computing / Trusted Computing

News

  • [5/2025] One paper titled “Stealing Data from Active Party in Vertical Split Learning” got accepted in ECML-PKDD 2025!
  • [3/2025] One paper titled “BiFD: A Bidirectional Feature Discrepancy Defense against Hijacking Attack in Split Learning” got accepted in ICME 2025!
  • [2/2025] One paper titled “From Head to Tail: Efficient Black-box Model Inversion Attack via Long-tailed Learning” got accepted in CVPR 2025!
  • [11/2024] One paper titled “I know what you MEME! Understanding and Detecting Harmful Memes with Multimodal Large Language Models” got accepted in NDSS 2025!
  • [2/2024] One paper titled “Penetralium: Privacy-Preserving and Memory-Efficient Neural Network Inference at the Edge” got accepted in FGCS!
  • [2/2024] One paper titled “A Stealthy Wrongdoer: Feature-Oriented Reconstruction Attack against Split Learning” got accepted in CVPR 2024!
  • [9/2023] One paper titled “GAN You See Me? Enhanced Data Reconstruction Attacks against Split Inference” got accepted in NeurIPS 2023!
  • [8/2023] One paper titled “Enhance the trust between IoT devices, mobile apps, and the cloud based on blockchain” got accepted in JNCA!
  • [9/2022] One paper titled “Measuring Data Reconstruction Defenses in Collaborative Inference Systems” got accepted in NeurIPS 2022!

Publications

2025

Stealing Data from Active Party in Vertical Split Learning

Yaxin Liu, Xiaoyang Xu, Wenzhe Yi, Yong Zhuang, Juan Wang, Mengda Yang, Ziang Li

European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD), 2025


BiFD: A Bidirectional Feature Discrepancy Defense against Hijacking Attack in Split Learning

Xiaoyang Xu, Wenzhe Yi, Juan Wang, Yong Zhuang, Mengda Yang, Ziang Li, Yaxin Liu

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2025


From Head to Tail: Efficient Black-box Model Inversion Attack via Long-tailed Learning

Ziang Li, Hongguang Zhang, Juan Wang, Meihui Chen, Hongxin Hu, Wenzhe Yi, Xiaoyang Xu, Mengda Yang, Chenjun Ma

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025


I know what you MEME! Understanding and Detecting Harmful Memes with Multimodal Large Language Models

Yong Zhuang, Keyan Guo, Juan Wang, Yiheng Jing, Xiaoyang Xu, Wenzhe Yi, Mengda Yang, Bo Zhao, Hongxin Hu

The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2025

2024

Penetralium: Privacy-Preserving and Memory-Efficient Neural Network Inference at the Edge

Mengda Yang, Wenzhe Yi, Juan Wang, Hongxin Hu, Xiaoyang Xu, Ziang Li

Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)


A Stealthy Wrongdoer: Feature-Oriented Reconstruction Attack against Split Learning

Xiaoyang Xu, Mengda Yang, Wenzhe Yi, Ziang Li, Juan Wang, Hongxin Hu, Yong Zhuang, Yaxin Liu

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024

2023

GAN You See Me? Enhanced Data Reconstruction Attacks against Split Inference

Ziang Li, Mengda Yang, Yaxin Liu, Juan Wang, Hongxin Hu, Wenzhe Yi, Xiaoyang Xu

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023


Enhance the trust between IoT devices, mobile apps, and the cloud based on blockchain

Juan Wang, Wenzhe Yi, Mengda Yang, Jiaci Ma, Shengzhi Zhang, Shirong Hao

Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA)

2022

Measuring Data Reconstruction Defenses in Collaborative Inference Systems

Mengda Yang, Ziang Li, Juan Wang, Hongxin Hu, Ao Ren, Xiaoyang Xu, Wenzhe Yi

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022

Educations

  • [2024.09 – current] Ph.D. in Information Security, Wuhan University. Supervised by Prof. Juan Wang.
  • [2022.09 – 2024.06] Persuing Master’s degree in Cyberspace Security, Wuhan University. Supervised by Prof. Juan Wang. (Part of the 1+4 Program)
  • [2018.09 – 2022.06] Bachelor in Information Security, Wuhan University. Supervised by Prof. Juan Wang.

Services

  • Conference Reviewer: AAAI 2026, NeurIPS 2025, ICCV 2025, ICME 2025, ECML-PKDD 2025

Awards

  • Lei Jun Graduate Student Scholarship in Computer Science, Wuhan University, 2025.
  • Huawei Scholarship, Wuhan University, 2024.
  • Wuhan University Outstanding Academic Scholarship (First Prize), 2023.
  • Wuhan University Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 2023.
  • The 1st Privacy Computing and Data Security Challenge, Second Prize, 2022.
  • Wuhan University Outstanding Student Award, 2021.
  • Wuhan University Outstanding Student Scholarship (Third Prize), 2021.