🧩 Miscellaneous

Talks, awards, service, and odds and ends.

Selected Talks

  • One Poisoned Artifact Can Steer Your AI: How Robust Are Your LLM-Assisted Security Workflows? — FIRST CON, Denver, June 2026 — with Cheng-Lin Yang
  • One Bad OSINT Can Ruin Everything: How Secure is Your CTI RAG System? — FIRST CTI, Munich, April 2026
  • BullyRAG: A Multi-Perspective RAG Robustness Evaluation Framework — Code BLUE, Tokyo, October 2024
  • LLMs Bear the BOT, Yet Swallow Up: Attacks Against RAG Models — SINCON, Singapore, August 2024

Awards & Honors

  • Outstanding Bachelor's Thesis Award — top 2 among 170+ students, 2025
  • Garmin Student Scholarship — 1 of 14 STEM graduate students nationwide, Taiwan, 2025
  • E.SUN Bank Graduate Student Scholarship — 2025
  • ACLCLP Student Travel Grant — 2025
  • ICPC Asia Taoyuan Regional — Silver Award & Best Female Team Award — 2023
  • Presidential Award, National Taiwan University (×2) — top 5% of class
  • National First Prize, Girls in CyberSecurity Contest — 2022, on smart healthcare vulnerabilities
  • Fu Bell Scholarship — 2021, one student per department
  • Excellent Teaching Assistant Certificate — top 10% university-wide

Service

  • Sub-reviewer — ICML 2026, EMNLP 2026
  • Taiwan AI Safety Club — weekly discussions on alignment, robustness, and interpretability
  • Ambassador, Girls in CyberSecurity — mentoring on adversarial ML and security research

Teaching

  • Foundations of Artificial Intelligence — Lead TA, Spring 2026 — built a multi-agent game engine for the tournament final
  • Applied Deep Learning — TA, Fall 2025 — designed a two-stage adversarial jailbreak challenge for 150+ students
  • Calculus & Algorithm Design — TA, 2022–2023 — 300+ students

Random

  • Why NaCl₃? NaCl is 鹽 (yán) and the 3 is 三 (sān) — put them together and you get 妍姍 (Yen-Shan), my Chinese name. — chemically nonsense, phonetically perfect
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