Grants & Projects

3 research proposals I co-wrote and 6 funded research projects.

Grant Writing Research Projects

Grant Writing

Under ReviewModel Robustness, Ownership, and Privacy Preserving in Transfer Learning Aug 2026 · Core Author · Purdue University Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) PIs: Professor Elisa Bertino and Professor Ninghui Li My contribution: authored two-thirds of the proposal
Under ReviewFormal and Drift-Aware Containment of Agents in Regulated Systems May 2026 · Author · Purdue University Sponsor: Amazon Research Award PIs: Professor Elisa Bertino and Professor Imtiaz Karim My contribution: defined the problem formulation and guided the technical direction
Detection of GenAI Generated Malware Variants and Sandbox Evasion using GenAI Mar 2023 · Core Author · Purdue University Sponsor: Cisco Research Award PI: Professor Elisa Bertino My contribution: authored half of the proposal

Research Projects

In ProgressAssessing and Mitigating Inherited Vulnerabilities in Multi-Modal Foundation Models for Agentic Defense of Critical Infrastructure Feb 2026 – Present · Member · Purdue University Sponsor: NSF AI Institute for Agent-based Cyber Threat Intelligence and Operation (ACTION) PIs: Professor Elisa Bertino and Professor Sewoong Oh (University of Washington) My contribution: whether adversarial vulnerabilities in pretrained vision-language models propagate to downstream security agents under black-box conditions, and how they transfer across sites and modalities Outcomes: ,
In ProgressQuantifying and Characterizing Privacy Leakage in Vision-Language-Action Models via Membership Inference Nov 2025 – Present · Member · Purdue University Sponsor: Cisco Research Award PI: Professor Ninghui Li My contribution: membership inference attacks against vision-language models, and defenses that preserve task performance Outcomes:
Pro-Active Attack Management for Edge Computing Security Nov 2022 – Dec 2023 · Member · Purdue University Sponsor: Cisco Research Award PI: Professor Elisa Bertino My contribution: robustness of the ARIoTEDef early-defense system against adversarial attacks in IoT systems
Outcomes: and published; final project report delivered to Cisco
report slides
Universal and Efficient 4K Video Protection Technology Supporting Coding Standard Extension Jun 2018 – Jun 2019 · Leader · Communication University of China Sponsor: National College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program My contribution: wrote the funding proposal and led the project with a student team, contributing the core technical design Outcomes:
Development and Application Demonstration of Cloud Aggregation System based on Streaming Media Technology Sep 2017 – Jul 2018 · Member · Communication University of China Sponsor: National Science and Technology Support Program PI: Professor Cheng Yang My contribution: designed a selective video encryption algorithm to protect video copyright Outcomes:
Data Possession Proof in Cloud Computing Environment Jun 2014 – Jun 2016 · Leader · Huai'an University Sponsor: Jiangsu College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program My contribution: wrote the funding proposal and led the project with a student team, contributing the core technical design Outcomes: