Hello👋! I am Mingzhe Li(李明哲), a first-year Ph.D student at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, advised by Prof. Shiqing Ma.

I received my B.Eng in Cyberspace Security from Wuhan University in 2025. Before my time at WHU, I completed three years of study at the No.1 Middle School Affiliated to Central China Normal University （华中师大一附中）.

My research focuses on artificial intelligence security and privacy, Responsible Generative AI.

🔥 News

• 2025.04  🎉🎉 I am selected as an outstanding undergraduate graduate.
• 2025.01:  🎉🎉 1 paper is accepted to Usenix Security 2025.

📝 Publications

• EDITOR: Effective and Interpretable Prompt Inversion for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

  Mingzhe Li, Gehao Zhang, Zhenting Wang, Shiqing Ma, Siqi Pan, Richard Cartwright, Juan Zhai

  Preprint

• PAPILLON: Efficient and Stealthy Fuzz Testing-Powered Jailbreaks for LLMs

  Xueluan Gong*, Mingzhe Li*, Yilin Zhang, Fengyuan Ran, Chen Chen, Yanjiao Chen, Qian Wang, Kwok-Yan Lam

  Usenix Security 2025, * indicates equal contribution

• Augmenting Model Extraction Attacks against Disruption-Based Defenses

  Xueluan Gong, Shuaike Li, Yanjiao Chen, Mingzhe Li, Rubin Wei, Qian Wang and Kwok Yan Lam

  Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS)

🎖 Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Undergraduate Graduate, WHU Apr. 2025
• National Second Prize in Contemporary Undergraduate Math Contest in Modeling, Top 2% nationwide Nov. 2023
• Second Prize in the Chinese Collegiate Computing Competition Jun. 2023
• Second Prize in the “Huazhong Cup” College Student Mathematics Modeling Challenge May 2023
• Third Prize in the Hubei Province College Student Mathematics Competition Mar. 2023
• “Merit Student” Honorary Title, Twice Sept. 2023 & Sept. 2022
• “Active Participant in Social Activities” Honorary Title Jun. 2022

📖 Educations

• 2025.09 - Present, Ph.D Student, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• 2021.09 - 2025.06, Undergraduate, School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University
• 2018.09 - 2021.06, Senior Middle School Student, the No.1 Middle School Affiliated to Central China Normal University

💻 Internships

• 2025.02 - 2025.06, ByteDance, Shenzhen, China.