I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Louisville. From 2022 to 2024, I was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. I received my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University in August 2022. My research broadly focuses on various aspects of AI safety and security.

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  • Patcher: Post-Hoc Patching of Backdoored Large Language Models PDFCode
    Anjun Gao, Yueyang Quan, Yufei Xia, Zhuqing Liu, and Minghong Fang
    In Proc. USENIX Security Symposium, 2026
  • Five Queries Are Enough: Query-Efficient and Surrogate-Free Membership Inference Attacks on RAG via Entailment PDFCode
    Nguyen Linh Bao Nguyen, Wanlun Ma, Viet Vo, Alsharif Abuadbba, Minghong Fang, Jun Zhang, and Yang Xiang
    In Proc. USENIX Security Symposium, 2026
  • Who Taught the Lie? Responsibility Attribution for Poisoned Knowledge in Retrieval-Augmented Generation PDFPosterCode
    Baolei Zhang*, Haoran Xin*, Yuxi Chen, Zhuqing Liu, Biao Yi, Tong Li, Lihai Nie, Zheli Liu, and Minghong Fang
    In Proc. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2026 (*co-primary authors, acceptance rate: 12.7%)
  • Do We Really Need to Design New Byzantine-robust Aggregation Rules? PDF
    Minghong Fang, Seyedsina Nabavirazavi, Zhuqing Liu, Wei Sun, Sundararaja Sitharama Iyengar, and Haibo Yang
    In Proc. NDSS, 2025 (acceptance rate: 16.1%)
  • Byzantine-Robust Decentralized Federated Learning PDF
    Minghong Fang, Zifan Zhang, Hairi, Prashant Khanduri, Jia Liu, Songtao Lu, Yuchen Liu, and Neil Gong
    In Proc. ACM CCS, 2024 (acceptance rate: 16.9%)
  • FLTrust: Byzantine-robust Federated Learning via Trust Bootstrapping PDFCode
    Xiaoyu Cao*, Minghong Fang*, Jia Liu, and Neil Zhenqiang Gong
    In Proc. NDSS, 2021 (*co-primary authors, acceptance rate: 15.2%)
  • Local Model Poisoning Attacks to Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning PDFCode
    Minghong Fang*, Xiaoyu Cao*, Jinyuan Jia, and Neil Zhenqiang Gong
    In Proc. USENIX Security Symposium, 2020 (*co-primary authors, acceptance rate: 16.1%)