Yun Shen

Director, AI/ML, Flexera

Joined

May 2022

Names

Yun Shen (Preferred)

Emails

****@nortonlifelock.com (Confirmed)

****@netapp.com (Confirmed)

****@flexera.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Director, AI/ML

Flexera (flexera.com)

2024 – Present

Technical Director

NetApp (netapp.com)

2022 – 2024

Technical Director

NortonLifeLock (nortonlifelock.com)

2019 – 2022

Senior Principal Researcher

Symantec (symantec.com)

2012 – 2019

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Savvas Zannettou

2022 – Present

Coauthor

Yang Zhang

2020 – Present

Postdoc Advisor

Trevor Martin

2006 – 2008

Expertise

AI safety

Present

ML/AI Security and Privacy

2012 – Present

Cloud Security

2009 – Present

IoT Security

2016 – 2021

Publications

Robustness Over Time: Understanding Adversarial Examples’ Effectiveness on Longitudinal Versions of Large Language Models
Yugeng Liu, Tianshuo Cong, Zhengyu Zhao, Michael Backes, Yun Shen, Yang Zhang
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
- Readers: Everyone
Benchmark of Benchmarks: Unpacking Influence and Code Repository Quality in LLM Safety Benchmarks
Junjie Chu, Xinyue Shen, Michael Backes, Yun Shen, Yang Zhang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
JADES: A Universal Framework for Jailbreak Assessment via Decompositional Scoring
Junjie Chu, Mingjie Li, Ziqing Yang, Ye Leng, Chenhao Lin, Chao Shen, Michael Backes, Yun Shen, Yang Zhang
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
When GPT Spills the Tea: Comprehensive Assessment of Knowledge File Leakage in GPTs
Xinyue Shen, Yun Shen, Michael Backes, Yang Zhang
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
The Ripple Effect: On Unforeseen Complications of Backdoor Attacks
Rui Zhang, Yun Shen, Hongwei Li, Wenbo Jiang, Hanxiao Chen, Yuan Zhang, Guowen Xu, Yang Zhang
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
The Challenge of Identifying the Origin of Black-Box Large Language Models
Ziqing Yang, Yixin Wu, Yun Shen, Wei Dai, Michael Backes, Yang Zhang
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Synthetic Artifact Auditing: Tracing LLM-Generated Synthetic Data Usage in Downstream Applications
Yixin Wu, Ziqing Yang, Yun Shen, Michael Backes, Yang Zhang
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
The Ripple Effect: On Unforeseen Complications of Backdoor Attacks
Rui Zhang, Yun Shen, Hongwei Li, Wenbo Jiang, Hanxiao Chen, Yuan Zhang, Guowen Xu, Yang Zhang
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
On the Proactive Generation of Unsafe Images From Text-To-Image Models Using Benign Prompts
Yixin Wu, Ning Yu, Michael Backes, Yun Shen, Yang Zhang
- USENIX Security Symposium 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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