Update: I have graduated and this website is inactive. My current website can be found here.

Congzheng Song / 宋丛峥

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

Contact

Email: cs2296[at]cornell.edu
Links: [Google scholar ] [Github ] [Linkedin ]

About Me

Hello! I am a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University (physically located at Cornell Tech) working with Prof. Vitaly Shmatikov. My current research interests are security & privacy issues in machine learning. I completed my bachelor's degree at Emory University, where I worked closely with Prof. Ymir Vigfusson and Prof. Lee Cooper on some fun real world deep learning application projects.

Industrial Experience

Applied scientist intern at Amazon, Summer 2020
Research intern at Google Brain, Fall 2019
Research intern at Petuum Inc, Summer 2019

Publications

(* indicates equal contribution)

1. You Autocomplete Me: Poisoning Vulnerabilities in Neural Code Completion [pdf]
   R.Schuster, C.Song, E. Tromer, V.Shmatikov
   To appear in USENIX Security Symposium, 2021


2. Adversarial Semantic Collisions [pdf][code]
   C.Song, A.Rush, V.Shmatikov
   In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020


3. Information Leakage in Embedding Models [pdf][code]
   C.Song, A.Raghunathan
   In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2020


4. Generalized Zero-Shot Text Classification for ICD Coding [pdf][code]
   C.Song, S.Zhang, N.Sadoughi, P.Xie, E.P.Xing
   In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2020


5. Membership Encoding for Deep Learning [pdf]
   C.Song, R.Shokri
   In ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2020


6. Overlearning Reveals Sensitive Attributes [pdf][code][slides]
   C.Song, V.Shmatikov
   In International Conference on Learning Representation (ICLR), 2020


7. Auditing Data Provenance in Text-Generation Models [pdf][code][slides]
   C.Song, V.Shmatikov
   In ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2019
   Oral Presentation


8. Exploiting Unintended Feature Leakage in Collaborative Learning [pdf][code][talk][slides]
   L.Melis*, C.Song*, E. De Cristofaro, V.Shmatikov
   In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2019
   


9. What Are Machine Learning Models Hiding? [pdf]
   V.Shamtikov, C.Song
   In Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs), 2018


10. Kernel Distillation for Fast Gaussian Processes Prediction [pdf][code]
    C.Song*, Y.Sun*
    In NeurIPS Workshop on All of Bayesian Nonparametrics (BNP@NeurIPS), 2018
    Spotlight Presentation


11. Predicting Clinical Outcomes from Large Scale Cancer Genomic Profiles with Deep Survival Models [pdf][code]
    S.Yousefi, F.Amrollahi, M.Amgad, C.Dong, J.E.Lewis, C.Song, D.A.Gutman, S.H.Halani, J.E.V.Vega, D.J.Brat, L.A.D.Cooper
    In Scientific Reports 7 (Nature), 2017


12. Machine Learning Models that Remembers Too Much [pdf][code][talk][slides]
    C.Song, T.Risternpart, V.Shmatikov
    In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2017


13. Membership Inference Attacks Against Machine Learning Models [pdf][code][talk]
    R.Shokri, M.Stronati, C.Song, V.Shmatikov
    In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2017
    The Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2018


14. Learning Genomic Representations to Predict Clinical Outcomes in Cancer [pdf][code]
    S.Yousefi, C.Song, N.Nauata, L.Cooper
    In International Conference on Learning Representation Workshop (ICLRW), 2016

Manuscripts

1. Chiron: Privacy-preserving Machine Learning as a Service [pdf]
   T.Hunt, C.Song, R.Shokri, V.Shmatikov, E.Witchel
   In arXiv preprint, 2018


2. Fooling OCR Systems with Adversarial Text Images [pdf][code by F.Tramèr et al]
   C.Song, V.Shmatikov
   In arXiv preprint, 2018