Lingwei Chen, Ph.D.

I am currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology. Prior to that, I worked as an Assistant Professor at Wright State University and a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Pennsylvania State University. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from West Virginia University advised by Prof. Yanfang (Fanny) Ye (University of Notre Dame).

My research interests are AI and security, with emphases in:

Trustworthy AI: robustifying discriminative and generative AI models against security and privacy threats.

Resilient AI: advancing generalization of AI models under challenging conditions and uncertainty.

Security with AI: developing structured methods (e.g., GNNs, NLP, and LLMs) for practical security problems.

Data mining and science: applying our developed AI solutions to broader social and scientific applications.

For my publications and bibliometrics, please refer to Publications and Google Scholar.

Openings: I am looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students to work with me on various cool projects. Please drop me an email with your CV if interested.

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Recent News

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[Aug 2026] A paper about LLM distillation was accepted to EMNLP 2026.

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[Apr 2026] A paper about backdoor forgetting in LLMs was accepted to ACL 2026.

[Feb 2026] A paper about out-of-distribution detection was accepted to WWW 2026.

[Jan 2026] A paper about graph rewiring for bot detection was accepted to ICASSP 2026.

[Jan 2026] A paper about heterophilic graph learning was accepted to ICASSP 2026.

[Jan 2026] A paper about optimization-resilient binary vulnerability detection was accepted to JSA 2026.

[Jan 2026] A paper about training-efficient vulnerability detection was accepted to ASE 2026.

[Nov 2025] A paper about text-guided image synthesis was accepted to CVIU 2025.

[Oct 2025] A paper about retrieval-augmented latent diffusion was accepted to IEEE BigData 2025.

[Aug 2025] A paper about extreme event prediction was accepted to ICDM 2025.

[Jun 2025] A paper about multi-modal vulnerability detection was accepted to Information Fusion 2025.

[Jun 2025] A paper received COLA 2024 Best Paper Award.

[May 2025] Received Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence: Early Career Achievement.

[Apr 2025] Received CECS Early Career Achievement Award.

[Apr 2025] A paper about code similarity analysis was accepted to IST 2025.

[Jan 2025] A paper about cost-efficient vulnerability detection was accepted to JSS 2025.

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