Jin Ma

Ph.D. Candidate, Clemson University

Can we truly trust the AI systems we increasingly rely on? The gap between what AI can do and how easily it can be fooled or misused is what inspires my work toward intelligent systems that are secure, reliable, and worthy of trust.

“Things were going fairly well. I had become engaged to a very nice girl, Jane Wilde. But in order to get married, I needed a job, and in order to get a job, I needed a PhD.”

— Stephen Hawking, My Brief History

About me

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Computing at Clemson University. My interests span adversarial attacks and defenses of perception systems, cyber harassment detection using large language models, and ML-enabled biometric authentication. Before Clemson, I earned my M.S. in Software Engineering and B.S. in Information and Computing Science at Xi’an Jiaotong University, and worked as an engineer in industry.