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Hi, I'm Irfan, a PhD student and AI researcher passionate about ensuring fairness, protecting privacy, and enhancing security in AI systems

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  • [March 2025] I have been awarded Gonzalez Family 2025 Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award!
  • [January 2025] Our paper "GLOCALFAIR: Jointly Improving Global and Local Group Fairness in Federated Learning" has been accepted to The 6th AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence PPAI-2025!
  • [September 2024] Our paper "HarmonyCloak: Making Music Unlearnable for Generative AI" has been accepted to IEEE S&P/Oakland 2025!

    • Selected Publications

  • [IEEE S&P/Oakland'25] HarmonyCloak: Making Music Unlearnable for Generative AI (14.3%) [Project Website]
  • [IJCAI'24] EAB-FL: Exacerbating Algorithmic Bias Through Model Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning (14.1%)
  • [ISVLSI'24] ConFUSE: Confusion-based Federated Unlearning with Salience Exploration
  • [ACM AsiaCCS'23] RecUP-FL: Reconciling Utility and Privacy in Federated Learning via User-configurable Privacy Defense (16%)
  • [IEEE EMBC'22] Fair and Privacy-Preserving Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis Based on Spontaneous Speech Analysis via Federated Learning
  • [IEEE EMBC'21] Precise warfarin management through personalized modeling and control with limited clinical data
  • [AMAAEA'21] Food insecurity through machine learning lens: identifying vulnerable households

    • Media

  • UTK News: Liu’s New Tool Makes Songs Unlearnable to Generative AI - October 2024
  • Microsoft Network: New tool makes songs unlearnable to generative AI - Octorber 2024
  • FURTURA: Bonne nouvelle pour les droits des artistes : HarmonyCloak empoisonne les IA pour protéger la musique ! - Octorber 2024
  • NDD.news: Protéger sa musique des IA, c’est possible ! - Octorber 2024
  • New Atlas: HarmonyCloak slips silent poison into music to corrupt AI copies - Octorber 2024
  • TechXplore: New tool makes songs unlearnable to generative AI - Octorber 2024

    • Misc.

    I love music (rock, classical) and play piano during leisure time. I am also a landscape photographer, you’ll often find me exploring the mountains during holidays.

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