Xian Wu
PhD Student
Department of Computer Science
Northwestern University (NU)
Email: xianwu2014 [at] u [dot] northwestern [dot] edu
GitHub / Google Scholar

I am currently a fourth-year PhD student at Northwestern University. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Xinyu Xing. I completed Bachelor of Software Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University.

Research Interest: Deep Learning, Computer Security.

Publications
BACKDOORL: Backdoor Attack against Competitive Reinforcement Learning.
Lun Wang, Zaynah Javed, Xian Wu, Wenbo Guo, Xinyu Xing, Dawn Song
The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2021
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Adversarial Policy Learning in Two-player Competitive Games.
Wenbo Guo, Xian Wu, Sui Huang, Xinyu Xing
Proceedings of The 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021
[PDF] [Code]
Adversarial Policy Training against Deep Reinforcement Learning.
Xian Wu*, Wenbo Guo*, Hua Wei*, Xinyu Xing
(* indicates equal contribution)

Proceedings of The 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2021
[PDF] [Code]
Ruling StarCraft Game Spitefully -- Exploiting the Blind Spot of AI-Powered Game Bots.
Wenbo Guo, Xian Wu, Xinyu Xing, Jimmy Su
Proceedings of The 23rd Blackhat USA (BlackHat USA), 2020
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