🧐 About Me

👋 Hi there! My name is Xuankun Rong（容旋坤）, I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student at the School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Mang Ye. I received my Bachelor’s degree at the School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University.

My research focuses on AI Safety.

If you are interested in collaborating with me or want to have a chat, always feel free to contact me through e-mail or Wechat.

🔥 News

2025.05: Released our new work BYE on backdoor defense for MLLMs on arxiv — welcome to follow and share! ❤️
2025.05: One paper (CAN) has been accepeted by ICML 2025. 💪
2024.09: Won Nomination Award of College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship works in 2024 China Network Security Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
2024.08: Won First Prize in the 17th National College Student Information Security Contest, along with the Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial Award (Top 0.1% nation-wide). 👏
2024.07: We advanced to the National Finals of the 17th National College Student Information Security Contest and are looking forward to achieving excellent results. 💪
2024.05: Won First Prize in the 17th China Undergraduate Computer Design Competition, Middle South Division (Top 3% division-wide).

†: equal contribution *: corresponding author

: CAN: Leveraging Clients As Navigators for Generative Replay in Federated Continual Learning; Xuankun Rong†, Jianshu Zhang†, Kun He, Mang Ye*; International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025

: A Survey of Safety on Large Vision-Language Models: Attacks, Defenses and Evaluations; Mang Ye*, Xuankun Rong, Wenke Huang, Bo Du, Nenghai Yu, Dacheng Tao; [Project Page]

: Backdoor Cleaning without External Guidance in MLLM Fine-tuning; Xuankun Rong†, Wenke Huang†, Jian Liang, Jinhe Bi, Xun Xiao, Yiming Li, Bo Du, Mang Ye*; [Project Page]

2024.09: Nominated Award for college students’ innovative and entrepreneurial works in 2024 China Cyber Security Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
2024.08: First Prize in the 17th National College Student Information Security Contest, along with the Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial Award (Top 0.1% nation-wide).
2024.05: First Prize in the 17th China Undergraduate Computer Design Competition of Middle South Division (Award Rate: 3% division-wide)

2025.09 - present, Ph.D. Student, School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China.
2021.09 - 2025.06, B.E, School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University, China.
2018.09 - 2021.07, Senior Middle School, HuBei Wuchang Experimental High School, China.

I am an avid music and band enthusiast. I enjoy exploring various musical styles, with a particular love for shoegaze, city pop, and blues. Music is an integral part of my life that fuels my creativity and inspires my work.
My girlfriend and I have two adorable cats named Fatbo (肥波) and Summer. They are both funny and have brought a lot of fun to our lives!