
Jian Lou (娄坚)
Associate Professor, PhD Supervisor
Actively recruiting PhD students and postdocs in LLM security & privacy!
Background
- Former postdoctoral researcher at Emory University with Prof. Li Xiong.
- Published 80+ papers with 50+ at leading venues and major conferences.
- ACM CCS 2024 Distinguished Paper Award recipient.
Recent Highlights
- 2026.07One paper accepted at ACM MM 2026
- 2026.06One paper accepted at USENIX Security 2026
- 2026.06Invited as PC for USENIX Security 2027
- 2026.05One paper accepted at ICML 2026; invited as PC for ICDE 2027
- 2026.03WaveMoE to be presented at TSALM@ICLR 2026
- 2026.013 papers accepted at ICLR 2026
- 2025.12Best Paper Award at PAH-AP 2025
- 2025.11Invited as AC for ICML 2026
- 2025.07Best Paper Award at ACISP 2025
- 2024.10ACM CCS 2024 Distinguished Paper Award
Research Interests
LLM Privacy, Safety Alignment, Data Valuation, Data Governance
Academic Service
- Area Chair: ICLR 2026, ICML 2024–2026, ACL ARR
- Senior PC: WWW 2026, AAAI 2025–2026
- PC Member: ACM CCS 2024–2026, IEEE EuroS&P 2025, VLDB 2023–2024
- Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICLR, KDD, AAAI, IJCAI, TDSC, TKDE
Selected Publications
Empowering VLMs for Few-Shot Multimodal Time Series Classification via Tailored Agentic Reasoning.
Lin Li, Jiawei Huang, Qihao Quan, Dan Li, Boxin Li, Xiao Zhang, Erli Meng, Wenjie Feng, Jian Lou, See-Kiong Ng
SafeAdapt: Safety Alignment with Adaptive Thinking Allocation for Large Reasoning Models.
Jiazheng Song, Junxu Liu, Jinfei Liu, Jian Lou
Time Series Reasoning via Process-Verifiable Thinking Data Synthesis and Scheduling for Tailored LLM Reasoning.
Jiahui Zhou, Dan Li, Boxin Li, Xiao Zhang, Erli Meng, Lin Li, Zhuomin Chen, Jian Lou, See-Kiong Ng
Understanding and Preserving Safety in Fine-Tuned LLMs.
Jiawen Zhang, Yangfan Hu, Kejia Chen, Lipeng He, Jiachen Ma, Jian Lou, Dan Li, Jian Liu, Xiaohu Yang, Ruoxi Jia
Safeguarding Multimodal Knowledge Copyright in the RAG-as-a-Service Environment.
Tianyu Chen, Jian Lou, Wenjie Wang
Safety at One Shot: Patching Fine-Tuned LLMs with A Single Instance.
Jiawen Zhang, Lipeng He, Kejia Chen, Jian Lou, Jian Liu, Xiaohu Yang, Ruoxi Jia
Token-level Inference-Time Alignment for Vision-Language Models.
Kejia Chen, Junjun Zheng, Jiawen Zhang, Manxi Lin, Xiao Pan, Jiacong Hu, Jian Lou, Zunlei Feng, Mingli Song
PreferCare: Preference Dataset Copyright Protection in LLM Alignment by Watermark Injection and Verification.
Jian Lou, Chenyang Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Kai Wu
Cross-silo Federated Learning with Record-level Personalized Differential Privacy.
Junxu Liu, Jian Lou, Li Xiong, Jinfei Liu, Xiaofeng Meng