Biography
Tianhao Li is a graduate student at Duke University and a visiting researcher at the SaFoLab, University of Wisconsin-Madison, work with Prof. Chaowei Xiao, Prof. Neil Gong, and Prof. Zhenyu Yang. His research aims to evaluating and enhancing the safety and privacy of generative models and systems, particularly in real-world applications such as healthcare, science, and the metaverse. He received a B.Eng. in Information Security in 2024 from North China University of Technology and worked as a Security Researcher (AI Red Teaming) at NSFOCUS and TOPSEC during his undergraduate studies. He also serves as peer reviewers for prestigious journals and conferences, including TIST, TAI, TBE, EAAI, RESS, JBHI, AAAI, IJCAI, ICLR, and ACL, etc.. In addition, he contribute to the MLCommons AI Risk & Reliability (AIRR) Working Group, and the NVIDIA's widely recognized open-source project NVIDIA/garak (4.7K+ stars). In early 2025, he founded Special Interest Group in Modern Interdisciplinary Research (SIGMIR) under section 501(c)(3), built its core team, and led its early operations and strategic development.