Yuan Tian
Associate Professor
Develops security and privacy protections for IoT and machine learning systems, combining program analysis and human factors.
Yuan Tian's lab at UCLA works on trustworthy & safe ML. 17 papers since 2023, 10 at top venues, mostly USENIX Security and CCS. 7 PhD students and 9 master's students. 6 alumni, most often to Meta and Amazon. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 4/ year
- at T1 venues
- 59%
- PhD students
- 7
- MS students
- 9
- alumni listed
- 6
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 5 papers2025 · T1 4
- 5 papers2024 · T1 3
- 4 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: USENIX Security, CCS, NDSS, ICLR, ICSE
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Trustworthy & safe ML1 paper
- iot1 paper
- program analysis0 papers
- factors0 papers
- human factors0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20263 papers
- S&P (T1)Breaking the Illusion: Automated Reasoning of GDPR Consent Violations (opens in a new tab)
- NDSS (T1)From Perception to Protection: A Developer-Centered Study of Security and Privacy Threats in Extended Reality (XR) (opens in a new tab)
- PETSLocation-Enhanced Information Flow Analysis for Smart Home Automations (opens in a new tab)
20255 papers
- USENIX Security (T1)Chimera: Creating Digitally Signed Fake Photos by Fooling Image Recapture and Deepfake Detectors (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)EIA: Environmental Injection Attack on Generalist Web Agents for Privacy Leakage (opens in a new tab)
- PETSFree WiFi is not ultimately free: Privacy Perceptions of Users in the US regarding City-wide WiFi Services (opens in a new tab)
- USENIX Security (T1)SoK: Towards Effective Automated Vulnerability Repair (opens in a new tab)
- USENIX Security (T1)Waltzz: WebAssembly Runtime Fuzzing with Stack-Invariant Transformation (opens in a new tab)
20245 papers
- ICSE (T1)Alexa, is the skill always safe? Uncover Lenient Skill Vetting Process and Protect User Privacy at Run Time (opens in a new tab)
- CCS (T1)AuthSaber: Automated Safety Verification of OpenID Connect Programs (opens in a new tab)
- CCS (T1)BadMerging: Backdoor Attacks Against Model Merging (opens in a new tab)
- USECTowards Real-time Voice Interaction Data Collection Monitoring and Ambient Light Privacy Notification for Voice-controlled Services (opens in a new tab)
- SIGKDDWhere have you been? A Study of Privacy Risk for Point-of-Interest Recommendation (opens in a new tab)
20234 papers
- NDSS (T1)CHKPLUG: Checking GDPR Compliance of WordPress Plugins via Cross-language Code Property Graph (opens in a new tab)
- EuroSPExploring Smart Commercial Building Occupants Perceptions and Notification Preferences of IoT Data Collection (opens in a new tab)
- PoPETs/PETSSenRev: Measurement of Personal Information Disclosure in Online Health Communities (opens in a new tab)
- SOUPSTowards Usable Security Analysis Tools for Trigger-Action Programming (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went6 listed, 60% to industry
Industry 3Academia 2
Most often to
- Meta
- Amazon
Also to
- University of Alabama
- University of Tennessee
Apply to UCLAFall 2027
Computer Science PhD
- Round
- Single round (Dec 15)
- Opens
- —
- GRE
- optional
- English
- See program page
- Fee
- See program page
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
Similar labsnearest by research summary
- USUC Berkeley
Somayeh Sojoudi
- Trustworthy & safe ML
- USNYU
Mehryar Mohri
- Learning theory & optimization
- USUCSD
Sanjoy Dasgupta
- Learning theory & optimization
- USUSC
Phebe Vayanos
- Trustworthy & safe ML
- DETUM
Franziska Boenisch
- Trustworthy & safe ML
- USNYU
Shengjie Wang
- Learning theory & optimization
Your notes
Save this lab to keep notes.
Data
Checked against the lab homepage.
- Collected
- Verified
- Papers
- The lab homepage
- Members
- Lab homepage
- Alumni
- Lab homepage
Tiers are venue classifications, not lab rankings.
UCLAcloses