Iโm a researcher at Alibabaโs Tongyi Lab, working on the safety, trustworthinese, and cultural inclusiveness of large language models. In parallel, I study speech understanding and real-time interpretation.
I earned my Ph.D. in 2024 from Zhejiang University, under the supervision of Prof. Kui Ren and Prof. Zhongjie Ba, with joint guidance from Prof. Yuan Hong at the University of Connecticut. My research focuses on trustworthy AI, aiming to improve the safety, robustness, and privacy of multimodal models.
Iโm always open to collaboration. Feel free to reach out at ixinyuzhang AT gmail.com. Weโre also recruiting intern researchers.
๐ฅ News
- 2025.09: ย ๐ Our Qwen3-Live-Translate multimodal simultaneous translation API has been officially released!
- 2025.08: ย ๐ Our paper CultureSynth accepted at EMNLP 2025 ๐ Suzhou, China โ see you there!
- 2025.06: ย ๐ Our paper PrivacyAsst has been selected as a Popular Article in the IEEE TDSC journal!
๐ Publications
Conference & Journal Papers
- EMNLP 2025 CultureSynth: A Hierarchical Taxonomy-Guided and Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Cultural Question-Answer Synthesis, Xinyu Zhang, Pei Zhang, Shuang Luo, Jialong Tang, Yu Wan, Baosong Yang, Fei Huang, 2025.
- CCS 2024 Top4 Sec Certifiable Black-Box Attacks with Randomized Adversarial Examples: Breaking Defenses with Provable Confidence, Hanbin Hong, Xinyu Zhang, Binghui Wang, Zhongjie Ba, Yuan Hong, 2024.
- TIFS 2024 Fltracer: Accurate poisoning attack provenance in federated learning, Xinyu Zhang, Qingyu Liu, Zhongjie Ba, Yuan Hong, Tianhang Zheng, Feng Lin, Li Lu, Kui Ren, 2024.
- TDSC 2024 Privacyasst: Safeguarding user privacy in tool-using large language model agents, Xinyu Zhang, Huiyu Xu, Zhongjie Ba, Zhibo Wang, Yuan Hong, Jian Liu, Zhan Qin, Kui Ren, 2024.
- S&P 2024 Top4 Sec Text-CRS: A Generalized Certified Robustness Framework against Textual Adversarial Attacks, Xinyu Zhang, Hanbin Hong, Yuan Hong, Peng Huang, Binghui Wang, Zhongjie Ba, Kui Ren, 2024.
- TDSC 2021 An efficient e2e crowd verifiable e-voting system, Xinyu Zhang, Bingsheng Zhang, Aggelos Kiayias, Thomas Zacharias, Kui Ren, 2021.
- CJNIS 2021 ้็งไฟๆค็ๅ ๅฏๆต้ๆฃๆต็ ็ฉถ, Xinyu Zhang, Bingsheng Zhang, Quanrun Meng, Kui Ren, ็ฝ็ปไธไฟกๆฏๅฎๅ จๅญฆๆฅ 2021.
- NDSS 2020 Top4 Sec Learning-based Practical Smartphone Eavesdropping with Built-in Accelerometer, Zhongjie Ba, Tianhang Zheng, Xinyu Zhang, Zhan Qin, Baochun Li, Xue Liu, Kui Ren, 2020.
- ICDCS 2019 CFP: Enabling camera fingerprint concealment for privacy-preserving image sharing, Zhongjie Ba, Xinyu Zhang, Zhan Qin, Kui Ren, 2019.
- JQSRT 2019 Scattering of an Airy light-sheet by a non-spherical particle using discrete dipole approximation, Xinyu Zhang, Yiming Yang, Jiaming Zhang, Renxian Li, 2019.
Technical Reports
- Qwen3-Omni Technical Report, Qwen Team, 2025.
- Qwen3Guard Technical Report, Qwen Team, 2025.
- Qwen3 Technical Report, Qwen Team, 2025.
- Qwen2 Technical Report, Qwen Team, 2024.
๐ Honors and Awards
- 2024, Excellent Graduate of Zhejiang University (Graduate level)
- 2020-2023, Excellent Graduate Student, Zhejiang University
- 2019, Doctoral Freshman Entrance Scholarship, Zhejiang University
- 2019, Outstanding Graduate of Xidian University (Undergraduate level)
- 2018, National Scholarship (Undergraduate, Top 1%)
- 2018, Cybersecurity Scholarship - China Internet Development Foundation
๐ Educations
- 2019.06 - 2024.12, Ph.D., College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou.
- 2015.09 - 2019.06, B.Eng., School of Cyber Engineering (Elite Program), Xidian Univeristy, Xiโan.
โ๏ธ Internships
- 2024.04 โ 2024.10, Research Intern, Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China
Supervisor: Baosong Yang and Pei Zhang - 2022.09 โ 2023.08, Visiting Researcher, University of Connecticut (UConn), Storrs, CT, USA
Supervisor: Prof. Hong Yuan - 2018.08 โ 2019.01, Visiting Student Researcher, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Supervisor: Prof. Kui Ren and Prof. Zhan Qin