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Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

• Advised by Chen Liu

B.Sc. in Computer Enginnering

Research Assistant

• Created AdjointDEIS a novel technique to calculate the gradients for diffusion ODEs/SDEs
• Proposed Diffusion Morphs (DiM) a novel family of face morphing algorithms
  • Developed Fast-DiM a more computationally efficient version of DiM which uses high-order ODE solvers
  • Designed Greedy-DiM an improvment on the vanilla DiM algorithm which uses a greedy strategy to preform guided generation
• Developed a SOTA morph detection algorithm using adversarial learning

Undergraduate Research Assistant

• Developed machine learning algorithms for the detection of malware using hardware information
• Studied the theory of semi-supervised anomaly detection problems

Engineering Intern

• Generated meta-statistics for several machine learning datasets
• Designed android application to display data from a backend server

Engineering Intern

• Designed a custom Linux image for embedded systems using the Yocto Project
• Created a web application capable of monitoring and maintaining server processes

• IJCB Docotral Consortium

Instructor

• CyberSecurity Camp, Griffiss Institute

Teaching Assistant

• CyberSecurity Camp, Griffiss Institute

Teaching Assistant

• Electrical Science, Clarkson University

Teaching Assistant

• Introduction to Digital Design, Clarkson University

Teaching Assistant

• ECE Sophomore Lab, Clarkson University

Teaching Assistant

• Software System Architecture, Clarkson University

Teaching Assistant

• Differential Equations, Clarkson University

Explainable Image Quality with Transformer-based Models

• Chen Liu (PI), Zander Blasingame
• Funding Agency: Center for Identification Technology Research, National Science Foundation
• Amount: 50,000 (USD)
• Role: Student Investigator

Towards the Creation of a Large Dataset of High-Quality Face Morphs

• Chen Liu (PI), Stephanie Schuckers, Xin Li, Jeremy Dawson, Nasser Nasrabadi, David Doermann, Srirangaraj Setlur, Siwei Lyu, Xiaoming Liu, Sébastien Marcel
• Funding Agency: Center for Identification Technology Research, National Science Foundation
• Amount: 400,000 (USD)
• Role: Student Investigator at Clarkson

Comparative Detection of Facial Image Manipulation Techniques

• Chen Liu (PI), Zander Blasingame
• Funding Agency: Center for Identification Technology Research, National Science Foundation
• Amount: 45,000 (USD)
• Role: Student Investigator

Adversarial Learning Based Approach Against Face Morphing Attacks

• Chen Liu (PI), Zander Blasingame
• Funding Agency: Center for Identification Technology Research, National Science Foundation
• Amount: 60,000 (USD)
• Role: Student Investigator