Yushun Dong

Assistant Professor, CS, Florida State University

Joined

May 2022

Names

Yushun Dong (Preferred)

Emails

****@virginia.edu (Confirmed)

****@fsu.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

CS, Florida State University (fsu.edu)

2024 – Present

PhD student

ECE, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (virginia.edu)

2020 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisee

Lincan Li

2024 – Present

PhD Advisee

Bolin Shen

2024 – Present

PhD Advisor

Jundong Li

2020 – 2024

Expertise

Large Language Models

2023 – Present

Graph Machine Learning

2020 – Present

Trustworthy AI

2020 – Present

Publications

Evolving Safety Landscape of Multi-modal Large Language Models: A Survey of Emerging Threats and Safeguards
Xi Li, Shu Zhao, Xiaohan Zou, Fei Zhao, Fuxiao Liu, Yusen Zhang, Cheng Han, Yushun Dong, Jiaqi Wang
- ICLR 2026 Trustworthy AI
- Readers: Everyone
LLM-Empowered Patient-Provider Communication: A Data-Centric Survey From a Clinical Perspective
Ruosi Shao, Md Shamim Seraj, Kangyi Zhao, Yingtao Luo, Lincan Li, Bolin Shen, Averi Bates, Yue Zhao, Chongle Pan, Lisa Hightow-Weidman, Shayok Chakraborty, Yushun Dong
- Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Readers: Everyone
TyphoFormer: Language-Augmented Transformer for Accurate Typhoon Track Forecasting
Lincan Li, Eren Ozguven, Yue Zhao, Guang Wang, Yiqun Xie, Yushun Dong
- SIGSPATIAL '25: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
- Readers: Everyone
A Survey on Model Extraction Attacks and Defenses for Large Language Models
Kaixiang Zhao, Lincan Li, Kaize Ding, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Yue Zhao, Yushun Dong
- Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- Readers: Everyone
Tracing LLM Reasoning Processes with Strategic Games: A Framework for Resource-Constrained Decision Making and Revision
Xiaopeng Yuan, Xingjian Zhang, Ke Xu, Yifan Xu, Jindong Wang, Lijun Yu, Yushun Dong, Haohan Wang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
MISLEADER: Defending against Model Extraction with Ensembles of Distilled Models
Xueqi Cheng, Minxing Zheng, Shixiang Zhu, Yushun Dong
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
SOMA: Efficient Multi-turn LLM Serving via Small Language Model
Xueqi Cheng, Qiong Wu, Zhengyi Zhou, Xugui Zhou, Tyler Derr, Yushun Dong
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
PCA Feature Alignment is Sufficient for Building Graph Foundation Models
Jiate Li, Yushun Dong, Xiyang Hu, Yue Zhao
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Cold Start in the Dark: Efficient and Practical Model Extraction of GNNs
Yihan Hong, Bolin Shen, Yushun Dong
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
DESIGN: Encrypted GNN Inference via Server-Side Input Graph Pruning
Kaixiang Zhao, Joseph Yousry Attalla, Qian Lou, Yushun Dong
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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