About Me

I am Jiazhao Li, an Applied Scientist on the Rufus Post-Training Team, the Amazon’s Store Fundamental AI. I earned my Ph.D. from the School of Information at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where I was advised by Prof. V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran. I also collaborate with Prof. Chaowei Xiao on research in Trustworthy AI.

Research

My research interests are Truthworthy AI (red-teaming, backdoor attack & defense of LLMs), Generative models, Health informatics.

Education

• Ph.D. in Informatics, University of Michigan , 2020 - 2024
• M.S. in Electrical Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, 2017 - 2019
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Nankai University, China, 2013 - 2017

Industry Experience

• 11/2024 - present : Applied Scientist @ Amazon
• 05/2023 - 08/2023 : Research Scientiest Intern @ Yahoo Research
• 10/2019 - 08/2020 : Research Associate @ Michigan Medicine

Selected Publications

• [Truthworthy AI] Benchmarking vision language model unlearning via fictitious facial identity dataset [Paper]
  Yingzi Ma, Jiongxiao Wang, Fei Wang, Siyuan Ma, Jiazhao Li, Jinsheng Pan, Xiujun Li, Furong Huang, Lichao Sun, Bo Li, Yejin Choi, Muhao Chen, Chaowei Xiao
  ICLR 2025.
  

• [Truthworthy AI] Mitigating Fine-tuning Jailbreak Attack with Backdoor Enhanced Alignment [Paper]
  Jiongxiao Wang, Jiazhao Li, Yiquan Li, Xiangyu Qi, Muhao Chen, Junjie Hu, Yixuan Li, Bo Li, and Chaowei Xiao
  NeurIPS 2024.
  

• [Truthworthy AI] ChatGPT as an Attack Tool: Stealthy Textual Backdoor Attack via Blackbox Generative Model Trigger. [Paper]
  Jiazhao Li, Yijin Yang, Zhuofeng Wu, V.G. Vinod Vydiswaran, Chaowei Xiao
  NAACL 2024, Spotlight Paper of 4th TrustNLP workshop.
  

• [Truthworthy AI] Defending against Insertion-based Textual Backdoor Attacks via Attribution. [Paper]
  Jiazhao Li, Zhuofeng Wu, Wei Ping, Chaowei Xiao, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran
  Findings of ACL 2023.
  

• [Machine Translation] PharmMT: A Neural Machine Translation Approach to Simplify Prescription Directions. [Paper] [BibTex][Video]
  Jiazhao Li, Corey Lester, Xinyan Zhao, Yuting Ding, Yun Jiang, and V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran.
  Findings of EMNLP 2020.
  

• [Information Retrieval] Re-ranking biomedical literature for precision medicine with pre-trained neural models. [Paper] [BibTex]
  Jiazhao Li, Adharsh Murali, Qiaozhu Mei, V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran.
  ICHI 2020.