Hi! I am Haowei Fu, currently a senior undergraduate student at Vanderbilt University, advised by Prof. Tyler Derr in NDS Lab at Vanderbilt. Before, I was grateful to work with Prof.Meiyi Ma in AI-CPS Lab at Vanderbilt and Dr. Chayan Chatterjee at Data Science Institute Vanderbilt.

Research Interest

1. Multimodal Learning: I am interested in how to learn representation in multimodal environment, especially when data is sparse and noise-dominated. I am interested in how we transfer learning in rich-modality model to low-resource modalities.
2. Trustworthy AI: I am interested in privacy attack and defense of LLMs. Currently I work on Membership-Inference Attack in text-based LLMs. I am interested in privacy in Multimodal LLMs.
3. Retrieval-Augmented Generation: I am interested in RAG on structured knowledge such as graph and their application in personalization in text generation and recommender system.

News

[01/2026] Paper: Ensemble Privacy Defense for Knowledge-Intensive LLMs against Membership Inference Attacks got accepted to EACL 2026!

[10/2025] Paper: Ensemble Privacy Defense for Knowledge-Intensive LLMs against Membership Inference Attacks is on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03100

[05/2025] Paper: Smartseg: A Non-Parametric Approach for Wearable Camera Video Segmentation is on SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5344625

[02/2025] Paper: Towards a Foundational AI model for Gravitational Wave Data Analysis got accepted to SMT 2025!

[01/2025] Paper: Pre-trained Audio Transformer as a Foundational AI Tool for Gravitational Waves is on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20789