Collin Zhang

PhD student, Computer Science, Cornell University

Joined

May 2024

Names

Collin Zhang (Preferred)

Emails

****@cornell.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

PhD student

Computer Science, Cornell University (cornell.edu)

2023 – Present

Undergrad student

New York University (nyu.edu)

2019 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Vitaly Shmatikov

2023 – 2028

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Language Confusion Gate: Language-Aware Decoding Through Model Self-Distillation
Collin Zhang, Fei Huang, Chenhan Yuan, Junyang Lin
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings
Rishi Dev Jha, Collin Zhang, Vitaly Shmatikov, John Xavier Morris
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Controlled Generation of Natural Adversarial Documents for Stealthy Retrieval Poisoning
Collin Zhang, Tingwei Zhang, Vitaly Shmatikov
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Soft Prompts Go Hard: Steering Visual Language Models with Hidden Meta-Instructions
Tingwei Zhang, Collin Zhang, John Xavier Morris, Eugene Bagdasaryan, Vitaly Shmatikov
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Soft Prompts Go Hard: Steering Visual Language Models with Hidden Meta-Instructions
Tingwei Zhang, Collin Zhang, John X. Morris, Eugene Bagdasaryan, Vitaly Shmatikov
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Zombie: Middleboxes that Don't Snoop
Collin Zhang, Zachary DeStefano, Arasu Arun, Joseph Bonneau, Paul Grubbs, Michael Walfish
- NSDI 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Extracting Prompts by Inverting LLM Outputs
Collin Zhang, John X. Morris, Vitaly Shmatikov
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors