Yuntao Du (杜云滔)

Data Privacy & Trustworthy Machine Learning

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I am a PhD student in computer science at Purdue University, advised by Prof. Ninghui Li. My research interests lie in Data Privacy and Privacy in Machine Learning. I am also broadly interested in analyzing emerging privacy risks arising from recent advances in AI. Here is my CV.

My research has been recognized and supported by the Ross Fellowship (2023-2027), Presidential Doctoral Excellence Awards (2023-2027), and Herbold Scholarship (2023-2024).

News

Sep 9, 2025 We introduce a highly efficient yet powerful membership inference attack called Imitative MIA.
Aug 31, 2025 We present a new class of MIA for jointly membership inference, which will be presented at NDSS 2026.
Aug 21, 2025 Our paper on assessment of tabular data synthesis algorithms is accepted by CCS 2025!
May 7, 2025 We present a new privacy threat to online pseudonymity with Language Model Agents.

Selected Publications

  1. NDSS
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    Cascading and Proxy Membership Inference Attacks
    Yuntao Du, Jiacheng Li, Yuetian Chen, Kaiyuan Zhang, Zhizhen Yuan, Hanshen Xiao, Bruno Ribeiro, and Ninghui Li
    In The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, 2026
    arXiv Code
  2. CCS
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    Systematic Assessment of Tabular Data Synthesis
    Yuntao Du, and Ninghui Li
    In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2025
    arXiv Code
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    Imitative Membership Inference Attack
    Yuntao Du, Yuetian Chen, Hanshen Xiao, Bruno Ribeiro, and Ninghui Li
    arXiv preprint, 2025
    arXiv Code
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    Automated Profile Inference with Language Model Agents
    Yuntao Du, Zitao Li, Bolin Ding, Yaliang Li, Hanshen Xiao, Jingren Zhou, and Ninghui Li
    arXiv preprint, 2025
    arXiv Code

Selected Honors & Awards

• Ross Fellowship, Purdue University, 2023
• Herbold Scholarship, Purdue University, 2023
• Presidential Doctoral Excellence Awards, Purdue University, 2023
• Excellent Masters Dissertation, Chinese Institute of Electronic, 2023
• National Scholarship, China, 2022-2023

Professional Services

Conference Reviewer
• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR): 2025 - 2026.
• International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS): 2025 - 2026.
• The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): 2023 - 2026.
• International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM): 2026.
• ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR): 2023 - 2025.
• ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM): 2024 - 2025.
• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN): 2025.
• Table Representation Learning Workshop (TRL): 2024 - 2025.
• International ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific (SIGIR-AP): 2023 - 2025.
Journal Reviewer
• ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
• ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS)
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
• ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS)