Ling Liu
Professor
Directs the DiSL lab on big data systems, trustworthy deep learning, federated learning and privacy.
Ling Liu's lab at Georgia Tech works on trustworthy & safe ML, data management & big data and interpretability, evaluation & safety of LMs. 59 papers since 2023, 1 at top venues, mostly TIST and SIGMOD. 6 PhD students. 38 alumni, most often to IBM and Google. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 15/ year
- at T1 venues
- 2%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 38
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 14 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 0
- 20 papers2024 · T1 0
- 19 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: TIST, SIGMOD, TOIS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Data management & big data6 papers
- Interpretability, evaluation & safety of LMs1 paper
- Trustworthy & safe ML0 papers
- data systems0 papers
- big0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202614 papers
- Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on omputer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR ), Wed June 3 - Sun June 7, Denver CO. USAA Multi-Agent Perception-Action Alliance for Efficient Long Video Reasoning
- ACM Computing Surveys. Accepted on May 7, .A Survey on Large Language Model Based Game Agents
- IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingAGCN: A Service Computing-Oriented Anchor-Guided Graph Clustering Network (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on omputer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR ), Wed June 3 - Sun June 7, Denver CO. USAAttention-aware Inference Optimizations for Large Vision-Language Models with Memory-efficient Decoding
- Proceedings of Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2026), Seoul, South Korea, July - , .Dynamic Optimizations of LLM Ensembles with Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning Agentsi
- Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Montreal, Canada, from May 4-8, .Efficient Graph Matching with Pattern Reduction
- Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Boise, Idaho, USA, February 22 - 26, .Geo-Personalization Bias in News Search: Analyzing Filter Bubbles in Search Engine Results with Multi-Perspective LLM (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. Accepted Feb 12, .GradCloak: Gradient Obfuscation for Privacy-Preserving Distributed Learning as a Service
- Proceedings of Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Morocco, March 24-29, .H3Fusion: Helpful, Harmless, Honest Fusion of Aligned LLMs
- ACM Computing Surveys. Accepted on March 26, .Harmful Fine-tuning Attacks and Defenses for Large Language Models: A Surveyi
- TISTMatching Accounts on Blockchain via Pseudo Fine-tuning of Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 12 January .Modular Model Adaptation for Online Learning in Streaming Text Classification
20256 papers
- ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ), Seoul, South Korea, on November 10-14FAIR-SE: Framework for Analyzing Information Disparities in Search Engines with Diverse LLM-Generated Personas (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI), Nov 11-14, , Pittsburg, USA. Open Source at GithubFedFT: Efficient Federated Finetuning with Heterogeneous Edge Clients (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Proceedings of International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE ), May 19-22. . HK.FedSDP: Federated Self-Derived Prototypes for Personalized Federated Learning (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions in on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST). 18 September .Robust Few-Shot Ensemble Learning with Focal Diversity-Based Pruning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Communications, Print ISSN: 0090-6778. Online ISSN: 1558-0857. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TCOMM. .3588627. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM. .3588627Two-Dimensional DOA Estimation of Underwater Acoustic Signals With Gain-Phase Errors (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS).Unfairness Attack and Unified Provable Defense on AI-powered Internet of Energy (opens in a new tab)
202420 papers
- Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD ).A Deep Prediction Framework for Multi-Source Information via Heterogeneous GNN (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Jan . DOI: 10.1109/TSC. .3341951Business Process Retrieval From Large Model Repositories for Industry 4.0
- Handbook of Trustworthy Federated Learning, 73-108Data Poisoning and Leakage Analysis in Federated Learning (opens in a new tab)
- BigDataDeep Learning Service for Efficient Data Distribution Aware Sorting (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Jan.-Feb.Demystifying Data Poisoning Attacks in Distributed Learning as a Service (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of PET Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS ), July 15-20, , Bristol, UK. https://github.com/git-disl/PMask.Diversity-driven Privacy Protection Masks Against Unauthorized Face Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal. , DOI: 10.1109/JIOT. .3309705.Fault-Tolerant Scheduling of Heterogeneous UAVs for Data Collection of IoT Applications (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Jan 3 - 6, , Hawaiian Village, Waikiki, Hawaii, USAGradient Coupling Effect of Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS).Gradient-Leaks: Enabling Black-box Membership Inference Attacks against Machine Learning Models (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Jan 16Hierarchical Pruning of Deep Ensembles with Focal Diversity (opens in a new tab)
- The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS ), Dec. 9-12, . Vancouver, Canada. Open Source at GithubLazy Safety Alignment for Large Language Models against Harmful Fine-tuning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI), Oct 26-29, , Washington DC.Neural Bezier Interpolation with Manifold Learning for Reliable Vessel Trajectory Prediction (opens in a new tab)
202319 papers
- Proceedings of IEEE CogMI Vision track, Nov. 1-3, , Atlanta, GA.Artificial Intelligence for Climate Smart Forestry: A Forward-Looking Vision
- Special issue on Empowering Future Generation Systems, IEEE Internet of Things.Data Offloading Enabled by Heterogeneous UAVs for IoT Applications under Uncertain Environments (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Volume: 16, Issue: 3, 01 May-June ), 13 July, . Pp1778-1792. DOI: 10.1109/TSC. .3190375Distributed Edge System Orchestration for Web-based Mobile Augmented Reality Services in 5G Networks (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing.Efficient Point-of-Interest Recommendation Services with Heterogenous Hypergraph Embedding (opens in a new tab)
- ACM SIGIR Forum 57 (1), 1-12Ensemble Learning Methods for Dirty Data: A Keynote at CIKM 2022 (opens in a new tab)
- '', Information Processing and Management. Elsevier.Explicit Time Embedding Based Cascade Attention Network for Information Popularity Prediction (opens in a new tab)
- The Web Conference (May 2-4, , Austin, TX).Hierarchical Deep Neural Network Inference for Device-Edge-Cloud Systems (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE CogMI . Nov. Atlanta, GA, USAImproving Time-series Classification Accuracy based on Temporal Feature Representation Learning using CRU-LSTM Autoencoder
- Proceedings of IEEE TPS Vision track. Nov. 1-3, , Atlanta, GA. GPTLens on GithubLarge Language Model-Powered Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection: New Perspectives (opens in a new tab)
- The Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS ), Dec. 10-16, . New Orleans, USA.Lockdown: Backdoor Defense for Federated Learning with Isolated Subspace Training (opens in a new tab)
- Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) , Dec. 1-4, Shanghai, China. ModelCloak on Github.Model Cloaking against Gradient Leakage (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of IEEE TPS Vision track. Nov. 1-3, , Atlanta, GA.RAI4IoE: Responsible AI for Enabling the Internet of Energy (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went38 listed, 67% to industry
Industry 18Academia 9
Most often to
- IBM
- Meta
Also to
- a tenure track assistant professor with Fordham University
- a tenure-track assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- a tenured associate Professor at the State University of West Georgia.
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