Hi! I am Haoyang, a M.Sc. student in Computer Science and research assistant at TASR-Lab@HKU supervised by Prof. Ka-Ho Chow. Before that, I was a visiting student at PR-Lab@NJU under the supervision of Prof. Yueming Lyu and Dr. Yi Liu. I obtained my B.Eng. degree at School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST) adviced by Prof. Zhichao Lian and Dr. Shuangquan Zhang. In addition, I had a wonderful time at Tencent exploring AI governance, security, and privacy.

My research interests mainly focus on the security and privacy of trustworthy large models, including jailbreaking, poisoning, member inference, data extraction (โ€ฆ) attacks and developing effective defenses to secure LLM, RAG, Agent systems, etc.

๐Ÿ”ฅ News

  • 2026.06: ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ Confundo, a RL-based RAG poisoning attack, was accepted by USENIX Securityโ€™26! (cycle 2 accept rate ~ 12.6%)
  • 2025.08: ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ MirrorMind, an Agentic interview simulator, was accepted by ADMAโ€™25!
  • 2025.06: I graduated from NJUST, and was honored with Outstanding Graduate!
  • 2025.06: My undergraduate thesis passed and was rated as Excellent!
  • 2025.01: I received an M.Sc. offer with a scholarship of RMB 30,000 from CUHK-SZ!
  • 2024.12: I completed my internship at Tencent, thanks to my mentor and colleagues!

๐Ÿ“ Publications

Note: $\dagger$ means co-first author, and \(\underline{\text{author}}\) means coresponding author.

Haoyang Hu, Zhejun Jiang, Yueming Lyu, Junyuan Zhang, Yi Liu, and Ka-Ho Chow, โ€œConfundo: Learning to Generate Robust Poison for Practical RAG Systems.โ€ The 35th USENIX Security Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA. (cycle 2 accept rate ~ 12.6%) [paper] [code] [promptfoo]

Shiwen Liu, Xu Dong, Haoyang Hu, and Di Wu. โ€œMirrorMind: A Dual-Agent AI Interview Simulator Powered by LLMs.โ€ The 21st International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, Kyoto, Japan. [paper] [code]

Yican Geng, Haoyang Hu$^\dagger$, Zhaoxuan Ge, and Zhichao Lian. โ€œNetwork Intrusion Detection Algorithm Based on LightGBM Model and Improved Particle Swarm Optimization.โ€ The 9th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress, Boracay Island, Malay, Philippines.

๐ŸŽ– Honors and Awards

  • 2025.04: Outstanding Graduate, NJUST
  • 2025.03 & 2024.09 & 2024.03: First Prize at Outstanding Student Scholarship, NJUST
  • 2025.03 & 2024.09: Success Scholarship, NJUST
  • 2024.09 & 2024.04: Outstanding Class Cadre, NJUST
  • 2024.03: Beyond Scholarship, NJUST
  • 2023.12: First Prize at National College Student Data Analysis Competition
  • 2023.11: Third Prize at National Cryptography Technology Competition
  • 2023.11: Merit Student, NJUST
  • 2023.09 & 2023.03 & 2022.09: Third Prize at Outstanding Student Scholarship, NJUST
  • 2022.11: Sports activist, NJUST
  • 2022.11: Runner-up at Badminton Team Championship, NJUST

๐Ÿ“– Educations

๐Ÿ’ป Internships

  • 2025.09 - present: TASR-Lab, HKU
  • 2025.03 - 2025.08: PR-Lab, NJU
  • 2024.09 - 2024.12: ESG Coordination Office (ECO Lab), Tencent
  • 2024.01 - 2024.02: Cloud Network Maintenance Center, China Telecom
  • 2023.07 - 2023.08: Judicial Appraisal Institute, CINGHOO
  • 2022.07 - 2022.08: DarkArmor Lab, MoreSec

๐ŸŽจ Miscs

๐Ÿค– Robotics

I have participated in 8 seasons of VEX-EDR (now known as VEX-V5) robotics competitions, selected awards including:

  • First Prize ๐Ÿ† at World Robot Conference Contest (WRCC 2018).
  • Second Runner-up ๐Ÿฅ‰ at World Robot Conference Contest (WRCC 2018).
  • Runner-up ๐Ÿฅˆ at National VEX Robotics Engineering Challenge.
  • Glod Award ๐Ÿ† at VEX World Championship.
  • Glod Award ๐Ÿ† at Asia-Pacific Robotics Championship.
  • Champion ๐Ÿฅ‡ at National VEX Robotics Engineering Challenge.
  • First Prize ๐Ÿ† at National VEX Robotics Engineering Challenge.

๐ŸŒ  Studentsโ€™ Activities

  • 2024 - 2025: Permanent Representatives, Student Congress, NJUST
  • 2021 - 2025: Secretary of the Reunion Branch, Major of 2021 in Cyber Science and Engineering, NJUST
  • 2021 - 2025: Team Member, Basketball Team of the School of Cyber Science and Engineering, NJUST
  • 2021 - 2025: Team Member, Badminton Team of the School of Cyber Science and Engineering, NJUST
  • 2022 & 2023: Team Leader, Summer Social Practice Activity (provincial core project)