CV

Contact Information

Name Wenbin Zhai
Professional Title Ph.D. Student
Email wenbin.zhai@connect.polyu.hk
Website https://wenbinzhai.github.io/

Professional Summary

Ph.D. student in the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, with research focused on LLM agent security. My work studies the security of tool-augmented agents, agentic workflows, and external agent components such as tools, memory, and retrieval systems. I am broadly interested in cybersecurity, trustworthy AI, and secure AI agent systems.

Experience

  • 2023.04 - 2025.03

    Sydney, Australia

    Research Assistant
    School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales
    • Advisor: Prof. Jingling Xue.

Education

Academic Interests

Research Areas: LLM Agent Security, Cybersecurity, Trustworthy AI, Wireless Sensor Networks

Honors and Awards

  • 2025-05
    PolyU Research Postgraduate Scholarship (PRPgS)
  • 2025-01
    Outstanding Postgraduate Thesis of Jiangsu Computer Society
  • 2024-11
    Outstanding Postgraduate Thesis of Jiangsu Province
  • 2023-12
    Tuition Fee Scholarship of UNSW Sydney (Cover both tuition fees and living allowance)
  • 2023-04
    Provincial Merit Student of Jiangsu Province (Awarded to 1 postgraduate student in the college annually)
  • 2023-03
    Outstanding Graduate of NUAA
  • 2022-12
    Merit Student of NUAA (2021-2023)
  • 2022-12
    Advanced Individual in Research and Innovation of NUAA (2021-2023)
  • 2020-09
    Second Class Scholarship for Graduate Students of NUAA (2020-2023) (CNY 8,000/year)
  • 2021-10
    Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis of Jiangsu Province
  • 2020-06
    Outstanding Graduate of NJUCM
  • 2019-12
    Merit Student of NJUCM (2018-2020)
  • 2019-09
    Ruihua Soaring Scholarship (CNY 8,000) (Awarded by Jiangsu Ruihua Charity Foundation)
  • 2018-12
    National Encouragement Scholarship in China (2017-2019) (CNY 5,000/year)
  • 2018-12
    First Class Scholarship for Undergraduates of NJUCM (2017-2020) (CNY 2,500/year)
  • 2018-12
    Principal's Special Scholarship of NJUCM (2017-2018) (CNY 10,000) (Awarded to top 10 undergraduates university-wide annually for outstanding academic and comprehensive performance)
  • 2018-10
    Fei Xiaotong Virtue Scholarship (CNY 6,000) (Awarded by Jiangsu Fei Xiaotong Education Foundation)

Professional Activities

  • Conference Reviewer
  • The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026) [CCF A]
  • The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026 (CVPR 2026) [CCF A]
  • The Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026) [CCF A]
  • Journal Reviewer
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) [CORE A, CCF A, SCI-Q1]
  • The Journal of Supercomputing (TJSC) [CCF C, SCI-Q2]
  • Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering (FITEE) [CCF C, SCI-Q2]