Ning Luo
Assistant Professor
Studies trustworthy machine learning with formal methods and applied cryptography, including privacy-preserving verification of models.
Ning Luo's lab at UIUC works on trustworthy & safe ML, compilers & programming languages and security & privacy. 13 papers since 2023, 8 at top venues, mostly CCS and USENIX Security. 3 PhD students. 10 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 62%
- PhD students
- 3
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 10
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 9 papers2026 · T1 5 · collecting
- 1 papers2025 · T1 1
- 2 papers2024 · T1 1
- 1 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CCS, USENIX Security, NeurIPS, S&P
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Security & privacy3 papers
- Trustworthy & safe ML0 papers
- Compilers & programming languages0 papers
- cryptography0 papers
- studies trustworthy0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20269 papers
- HOSTBlindMarket: Enabling Verifiable, Confidential, and Traceable IP Core Distribution in Zero-Trust Settings (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Certified but Private: Scalable Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Neural Network Guarantees (opens in a new tab)
- USENIX Security (T1)Connect the Dots: Knowledge Graph–Guided Crawler Attack on Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems (opens in a new tab)
- CCS (T1)Improved Garbled RAM via Garbled Merge (opens in a new tab)
- CCS (T1)Towards Practical Privacy-Preserving SAT Solving (opens in a new tab)
- S&P (T1)Towards Practical Zero‑Knowledge Proof for PSPACE (opens in a new tab)
- FMTowards Privacy-Preserving Verification (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (IEEE TIT), Volume: 72, Issue: 4, AprilWeakly Private Distributed Multi-User Secret Sharing (opens in a new tab)
- OOPSLAZSafe: Proving the Safety of Proprietary Hardware Designs in Zero Knowledge (opens in a new tab)
20251 paper
20242 papers
Where alumni went10 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 10
Also to
- Yale University
- Tsinghua University
- UIUC
Apply to UIUCFall 2027
UIUC Siebel Computer Science PhD
- Round
- Single round
- Opens
- —
- GRE
- optional
- English
- TOEFL iBT / IELTS
- Fee
- USD 90
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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