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Wenbo Guo

Assistant professor and Zhu Chair

CS@UC Santa Barbara
E-mail: henrygwb@ucsb.edu
Office: 2163 Harold Frank Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

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Short bio: I am an assistant professor and Zhu Chair at UCSB CS. I completed my Postdoc at UC Berkeley as part of the RDI center and BAIR Lab, under the mentorship of Prof. Dawn Song. I received my Ph.D. from Penn State with Prof. Xinyu Xing and my master's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In my spare time, I also play CTFs with Shellphish.

Research Interests

My research interests center around the intersection of trustworthy machine learning and ML for computer security. My recent research includes designing generative models, foundation models, and DRL agents for vulnerability analysis and mitigation, as well as improving the explainability and robustness of code generative models, LLMs, and DRL.

Honors and Awards

Google SBFT Fuzzing Tool Competition Award (Top 1), ACM, 2024
IBM Fellowship Award, IBM, 2020
Facebook Fellowship Finalist, Facebook, 2020
Baidu AI Fellowship Finalist, Baidu, 2020
CCS Outstanding Paper Award, ACM, 2018
Black Hat Student Scholarship, Black Hat, 2018-2020
Multiple Conference Travel Grants (e.g., USENIX Security, CCS, NeurIPS, ICML), 2018-2021

Competitions

I play CTFs with Shellphish
Geekpwn Competition on Data Tracing CTF
Top 10, August, 2018.
Geekpwn Competition on Advesarial Attacks and Defenses CTF
Finalist (Top 6 worldwide), August, 2018. (Press release: CCTV, CSDN, TOM)
Kanxue AI CTF
Competition Question Maker, June, 2018. (Press release: China Daily, kknews)

To prospective students

I am actively recruiting Ph.D. students. If you have a solid background in foundation models, DRL, or software security skills (static analysis, fuzzing, symbolic execution) and are interested in working with me, please do not hesitate to contact me through email.