• Luyao Niu
    Assistant Teaching Professor
    Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
    University of Washington
    Seattle, WA 98195

    Email: luyaoniu [AT] uw.edu
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About Me

I am an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. I received my Ph.D. degree in 2022 under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Clark from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. I received an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. My research focus is to develop scalable algorithms and methodologies to establish trustworthy autonomy in adversarial environments by encompassing (1) safe AI, (2) robust control and verification, and (3) resilient cyber systems. These solutions use an interplay of methodologies from machine learning, optimization and control, game theory, and formal methods. Potential application domains of the proposed solutions include power systems, smart transportation, and robotics.

Awards and Honors

  • Outstanding Mentorship Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, 2023
  • Certification of Reproducibility Badge, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2022)
  • Best Paper Session, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS 2020)
  • Outstanding Paper Award, Springer Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2018)

Records of Innovation/ Patents

  • Provisional Patent filed with CoMotion at the University of Washington, Seattle
    • LDL: A Defense for Label-Based Membership Inference Attacks
    • Arezoo Rajabi, Dinuka Sahabandu, Luyao Niu, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, and Radha Poovendran

Education and Training

  • Postdoctoral Scholar, Network Security Lab, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA (2022)
  • M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA (2015)
  • B.S.E., Electro-Mechanical Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China (2013)