@ffmagicbean

Prof @ UIUC; PhD from UCSB; Researching in Security and Privacy, Data Analytics, and Human Factors

gangw.cs.illinois.edu
Joined December 2010
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Please consider submitting your work to SafeOSE 2027 (co-located with NDSS). The workshop is focused on Security, Privacy, and Trust in Open-Source Ecosystems and Standards: lnkd.in/p/gNX9UsZ2 @luyixing @xiaojingliao

SafeOSE '27: Open-Source Ecosystem Security and Trust | Luyi Xing posted on the topic | LinkedIn

🚀 Excited to announce SafeOSE ’27 — the NDSS Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Trust in Open-Source Ecosystems and Standards, co-located with NDSS 2027, one of the top-tier cybersecurity conferen...

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safe-ose.github.io/

NDSS SafeOSE '27

Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Trust in Open-Source Ecosystems and Standards.

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Join us in Chicago for the Illinois AI Leadership Sprint (lnkd.in/gAn9tNXD) linkedin.com/posts/hari-sund…

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Awesome job, team! P.S. PurpCode also won the 2025 Amazon Nova AI challenge as a defender model!
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@ocean_drifters4 Oct 2025
Excited to finally share our #NeurIPS2025 paper "🔮PurpCode: Reasoning for Safer Code Generation"!  🙌 👐 First post-training recipe for training safe code reasoning models 🚀 SOTA for cybersafety + utility, outperforming Sonnet 4, o4-mini, R1 🥇 Winner of 2025 Amazon Nova AI Challenge 📝 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.19060 🧵👇 1/11
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🚀 Made Possible by Incredible People! This wouldn't have been possible without my brilliant fellow core contributors @JiaweiLiu_ and @zhewang_20! 🙌 Massive thanks to the entire PurpCode Team and our incredible advisors @ffmagicbean, @Ismini_L, and @LingmingZhang for their unwavering support! Special shoutout to the Amazon Nova AI Challenge Team for making this opportunity possible! 11/11
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🔥So excited to present our paper at @SOUPSConference 📊Check out the paper here: Can You Walk Me Through It? Explainable SMS Phishing Detection using LLM-based Agents usenix.org/conference/soups2… Thanks a lot for @ffmagicbean helping me in this paper!!
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We won! congrats team! Amazing experience with the Amazon AI Challenge this year!
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@AmazonScience24 Jul 2025
Meet the champions of the Amazon Nova AI Challenge, where university teams around the world went head-to-head to break and defend LLMs under real adversarial pressure: 🏆 Defending: UIUC (PurpCorn-PLAN) 🏆 Attacking: Purdue (PurCL) 🥈 CTU Prague & Nova Lisbon These students just raised the bar for secure Gen AI. Full recap: amzn.to/44JjrF0
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[ACM CCS 2025] Want to host a workshop at CCS 2025? Check out the "Call for Workshops" here. 😃 Deadline March 14 (AoE) @acm_ccs sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2025/call-…
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IEEE S&P@IEEESSP26 Aug 2024
Our call for 2025 workshops is now available. Proposals are due September 26, 2024 More info: sp2025.ieee-security.org/cfw… #ieeesp2025
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A week of welcoming our newest Grainger engineers to #ILLINOIS 🧡
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Upcoming at @USENIXSecurity’24 — In (academic) systems security research, name checking @MITREattack has been the “peer review armor” of choice for a lot of work recently. But do these papers understand what ATT&CK is(n’t)? What about commercial products?
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Proud advisor moment! Jaron (@JaronMink) is joining ASU (@ASU) this fall as an Asst. Professor!
Jaron Mink@JaronMink20 May 2024
I'm so excited to say I'll be joining @ASU's School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence as an Asst. Professor this fall! So many thanks to @ffmagicbean, @eredmil1, @yoshi_kohno, @yazz_acar, @adamaviv, and the many other mentors & friends who supported me through this journey
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IEEE SP Workshops are online. Please consider submitting your papers.
IEEE S&P@IEEESSP19 Jan 2024
We are very excited to announce our IEEE S&P 2024 Workshops. Please take a look and submit your papers! #Security #privacy #ieeesp @ComputerSociety #safethings #aisecurity
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congrats @JaronMink!
Jaron Mink@JaronMink19 Jan 2024
Woohoo, another #CHI2024 paper conditionally accepted to round out the PhD! Excited to discuss how mental models used in deepfake moderation result in identity-based biases and harm to real users. Details to follow!
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Finally, it's time for @j_schmueser and @JaronMink to present their and @hkaur_in 's interview study on barriers regarding AML attack defenses!
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Limin did an excellent job defending his PhD dissertation! Congratulations Limin!
Limin Yang@whyisyoung19 Jul 2023
🎓🎉Defended my Ph.D. dissertation today! 🙏🏻Big thanks to my advisor @ffmagicbean and my committee Dr. Carl Gunter, Dr. Ravishankar Iyer, Dr. Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and @lcavallaro! Thank you all to my friends, collaborators, and family. I will join @tiktok_us next month 😎
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I just learned that I got Tenure! --- It is such a privilege to work with our amazing students, collaborators, and colleagues. Very grateful to my family, friends, mentors, and the supportive department and university!
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Very excited about the upcoming research on AI-enabled cyber-defense with the ACTION AI Institute! new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-announc… Institute website: action.ucsb.edu/research

NSF announces 7 new National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes

The U.S. National Science Foundation, in collaboration with other federal agencies, higher education institutions and other stakeholders, today announced a $140 million investment to establish seven…

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Another upcoming Oakland paper from @JaronMink and @HBenksy on studying security practitioners' perceptions of ML/Rule-based tools and ML explanations @IEEESSP. Paper link: gangw.cs.illinois.edu/Securi…
Jaron Mink@JaronMink2 May 2023
With the excitement around ML security, we'd expect real-world defenders to jump at the chance to use ML, right? In "Everybody’s Got ML, Tell Me What Else You Have", we ask 18 security practitioners their perception of ML/Rule-based classification tools & ML explanations!
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