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News & Updates

Research highlights, new members, awards, events, and other updates from the Cao Lab.


All Updates

2026.12
[Events] Cao Lab is co-organizing the TrustFMI Workshop at ACCV 2026 in Osaka.
2026.09
[Research] 3 papers accepted to NeurIPS 2026. Congrats to Junwei, Blaise, Pengpeng!
2026.09
[Team] Welcome new members: 2 PhD students (Meiyu, Zewen) and 3 Master students (Dingyi, Duc, Linus) joined the lab.
2026.09
[Awards] Congratulations to Blaise on being selected as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow through a highly competitive process with a 5.6% acceptance rate!
2026.09
[Talks] Prof. Thomas Eisenbarth from the University of Lübeck gave an invited talk titled "FLOATDOOR: Platform-Triggered Backdoors in LLMs".
2026.08
[Research] 1 paper accepted to VLDB 2027. Congrats to Hanxi and all collaborators!
2026.07
[Talks] Dr. Mohammad Sabokrou from OIST gave an invited talk titled "Trustworthy AI in the Face of the Unknown: Universal Novelty Detection Across Datasets and Tasks".
2026.07
[Team] Welcome Wonyeong Yoon, an international exchange student from NTU, to the lab.
2026.06
[Talks] Prof. Murat Kantarcioglu from Virginia Tech gave an invited talk titled "Realistic Attacks on Graph Neural Networks: From Social Networks and System Provenance to Agentic AI Networks".
2026.05
[Research] 2 papers accepted to ICML 2026. Congrats to Blaise and Manjiang!
2026.04
[Team] Welcome new members: 1 PhD student (Hao), 1 Visiting PhD student (Ruiyu), and 4 Master students (Tomoyasu, Taiga, Tomoyuki, Fangjie) joined the lab.
2026.03
[Awards] Hengyu Wu received the Student Presentation Award at DEIM 2026.
2026.01
[Events] Cao Lab co-organized a JST NEXUS joint workshop in Singapore with NTU and project partners.
2026.01
[Research] One paper was accepted in ICLR 2026. Congrats to Jiaming, Che, and all collaborators!
2026.01
[Talks] Prof. Cao delivered a keynote talk at ICSIE 2026 titled "Privacy in Fine-tuning for Large Language Models: Attacks, Defenses, and Future Directions".
2026.01
[Research] One paper was accepted in TheWebConf 2026. Congrats to Bo, Yurong, and all collaborators!
2025.12
[Research] Multiple papers accepted to SIGMOD 2026 / VLDB 2026 / AAAI 2026.
2025.12
[Talks] Prof. Chunwei Liu from Purdue University gave an invited talk titled "Declarative AI Data Systems: Closing the Gap from Data to Intelligence".
2025.12
[Events] Prof. Cao co-organized NII Shonan Meeting No. 229, "A Tale of Two Cities: Large Language Models and Computer Programming".
2025.11
[Events] Prof. Cao served as a General Co-Chair of CBD 2025 in Tokyo.
2025.11
[Talks] Prof. Cao was an invited speaker at an ICONIP 2025 special session and presented "Privacy in Fine-tuning and Prompting for Large Language Models: Attacks, Defenses, and Future Directions".
2025.11
[Research] Four paper was accepted in AAAI 2026. Congrats to Fuyao, Wenbo, Tianle, Lele and all collaborators!
2025.10
[Talks] Prof. Cao delivered a keynote talk at ProvSec 2025.
2025.10
[Events] Prof. Cao served as a Program Chair of ADMA 2025 in Kyoto.
2025.10
[Events] Cao Lab co-organized the KTFM Workshop on trustworthy foundation models in Kobe.
2025.10
[Awards] ACM MM 2025 Outstanding Paper Award.
2025.06
[Research] One paper was accepted in VLDB 2025. Congrats to Wen, Pengpeng, Shang and all collaborators!
2025.05
[Talks] Prof. Anna Fariha from the University of Utah gave an invited talk titled "Understanding Data through Change Summarization and Causal Disparity Explanations".
2025.05
[Talks] Prof. Cao gave an invited talk at the FDEA Workshop at ICDE 2025 titled "Bridging Differential Privacy and Cryptography in Graph Analytics".
2025.05
[Research] One paper was accepted in IJCAI 2025. Congrats to Lele and all collaborators!
2025.04
[Team] Welcome Li, Taiga, Tomoyasu, Ian join our lab!
2025.04
[Research] We started a new JST NEXUS Joint Project with NTU on Large Multi-Modal Model.
2025.03
[Talks] Michael Aerni from ETH Zurich gave an invited talk titled "Threat Models for Memorization: Privacy, Copyright, and Everything In-Between".
2025.02
[Talks] Prof. Essam Rashed and Mr. Tamer Ahmed from University of Hyogo gave an intriguing talk titled "Knowledge distillation in medical image segmentation".
2025.01
[Talks] Prof. Guandong Xu from EdUHK/UTS gave a distinguished lecture titled "Trustworthy Recommender Systems: Algorithms and Applications".
2025.01
[Research] Our paper on Federated Fine-Tuning was accepted in ICLR 2025. Congrats to all collaborators!
2024.10
[Events] Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) is changed to Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) from today. Check out the philosophy, logo, and new websites.
2024.09
[Events] We are organizing a domestic workshop (in Japanese) on LLM+DB on September 11. Welcome to attend!
2024.08
[Research] Two papers was accepted in ACM CCS 2024. Congrats to Ruixuan, Yihao and all collaborators!
2024.08
[Talks] Dr. Lingjuan Lyu @Sony AI gave an intriguing talk titled "A Pathway Towards Responsible Generative AI".
2024.07
[Talks] Prof. Yuzhe Tang @Syracuse University gave an intriguing talk titled "Understand Blockchains’ Economic Security from Systems- and Data- Security Perspectives".
2024.07
[Team] Welcome Bo to join our lab as Visiting Junior Fellow!
2024.07
[Talks] Lele Zheng gave a presentation at DASFAA 2024 in Gifu.
2024.07
[Team] Welcome Ms. Hoshuyama to join our lab as an Administrative Support Staff!
2024.06
[Talks] Professor Jian Pei (Duke) deliveried a distinguished talk on data market in our lab.
2024.06
[Research] Two papers was accepted in VLDB 2024. Congrats to Fumi and Shun!
2024.06
[Talks] Professor Ke Wang (SFU) deliveried a distinguished talk on federated learning in our lab.
2024.05
[Research] One paper was accepted in ICML 2024. Congrats to Saber!
2024.04
[Team] Our lab is officially starting! Welcome Shang, Lele, and Keito!