🌱I’m Elisa Tsai. I am a final year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Atul Prakash.
My research focuses on building pragmatic, GenAI-powered systems for web security. I also design algorithms for data efficiency and inference efficiency for vision and large language models.
Outside of work, I occasionally record music (Soundcloud, 网易云), and once every few years, I draw stuff. There’s also an archive of my Chinese blogs.
My Chinese given name is 文韬 (wén tāo), which comes from the Chinese idiom 文韬武略 (wén tāo wǔ lüè), meaning good at writing and good at fighting 😁
Links and Contact Info: [C.V.] [Google Scholar] [Github] [LinkedIn]
Selected Publications
For the full publication list, please check out my Google Scholar.
Teaching
Winter 2024 Computer & Network Security Grad Student Instructor. This is a seminar-based course with an extensive reading list on various computer and network security topics.
Fall 2023 EECS 598-012 Secure and Trustworthy ML Grad Student Instructor. This class discusses different types of adversarial machine learning attacks and their corresponding defenses, as well as model stealing, poisoning, fairness, and privacy.
Fall 2023 EECS 281 Data Structures and Algorithms Grad Student Instructor.
Community Service
University of Michigan
SECRIT (SECurity Reading Is Terrific) Reading Group Co-Host
I hosted SECRIT from 2021-2024, where we discuss recent papers on security and privacy. [Wiki] [Calendar]CSEG Outreach Chair
I was the Outreach Chair for CSEG (CSE Grad) for year 2022-2023. We organize outreach events and workshops such as Xplore Engineering and Discover EngineeringCSEG Social Co-Chair
I was one of the co-chairs for CSEG social events in 2022-2023.
Reviewing Service
- Program Committee, WWW’25 Short Paper Track
- Reviewer, WWW’25 Research Track
- Reviewer, ICLR 2025 SCOPE Workshop
Reviewer, ICLR 2025
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