🧐 About Me

I am a PhD student majoring in Cyberspace Security at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, supervised by Prof. Yushu Zhang.

Email: wangtao21@nuaa.edu.cn; wangtao_dzgg@163.com; taow1776@gmail.com

Research Interests: Visual Privacy, Information Theoretical Privacy, Adversarial Perturbation, AIGC

🔥 News

📝 Selected Publications

( * indicates the corresponding author. Full list of publications)

First Author

1. [2025 arXiv] Make Identity Unextractable yet Perceptible: Synthesis-Based Privacy Protection for Subject Faces in Photos.
   Tao Wang, Yushu Zhang*, Xiangli Xiao, Kun Xu, Lin Yuan, Wenying Wen, and Yuming Fang.
   arXiv, [code]

2. [2025 IEEE TBIOM] Seeing is not Believing: An Identity Hider for Human Vision Privacy Protection.
   Tao Wang, Yushu Zhang*, Zixuan Yang, Xiangli Xiao, Hua Zhang, and Zhongyun Hua.
   IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, JCR Q2, [code]

3. [2025 IEEE TIFS] Beyond Privacy: Generating Privacy-Preserving Faces Supporting Robust Image Authentication.
   Tao Wang, Wenying Weng*, Xiangli Xiao, Zhongyun Hua, Yushu Zhang, and Yuming Fang.
   IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, CCF A, JCR Q1, [code]

4. [2024 ACM MM] Make Privacy Renewable! Generating Privacy-Preserving Faces Supporting Cancelable Biometric Recognition.
   Tao Wang, Yushu Zhang*, Xiangli Xiao, Lin Yuan, Zhihua Xia, and Jian Weng.
   ACM International Conference on Multimedia, CCF A, [code]

5. [2024 ACM CSUR] Security and Privacy on Generative Data in AIGC: A Survey.
   Tao Wang, Yushu Zhang*, Shuren Qi, Ruoyu Zhao, Zhihua Xia, and Jian Weng.
   ACM Computing Surveys, IF 28, JCR Q1, 🏆 ESI Highly Cited Paper, [reading list]

Core Author

1. [2025 IEEE TPAMI] Make Identity Indistinguishable: Utility-Preserving Face Dataset Publication with Provable Privacy Guarantees.
   Yushu Zhang, Junhao Ji*, Tao Wang, Ruoyu Zhao, Wenying Wen, and Yong Xiang.
   IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, CCF A, JCR Q1

2. [2025 IEEE TDSC] Tailor-made Face Privacy Protection via Class-wise Targeted Universal Adversarial Perturbations.
   Yushu Zhang, Zixuan Yang, Tao Wang*, Zhongyun Hua, and Jian Weng.
   IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, CCF A, JCR Q1

3. [2024 ACM MM] Once-for-all: Efficient Visual Face Privacy Protection via Person-specific Veils.
   Zixuan Yang, Yushu Zhang*, Tao Wang, Zhongyun Hua, Zhihua Xia, and Jian Weng.
   ACM International Conference on Multimedia, CCF A, 🏆 Honourable Mention Award, [TL;DR]

4. [2023 IEEE TIFS] RAPP: Reversible Privacy Preservation for Various Face Attributes.
   Yushu Zhang, Tao Wang, Ruoyu Zhao*, Wenying Wen, and Youwen Zhu.
   IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, CCF A, JCR Q1, [TL;DR]

🎖 Honors and Awards

• ACM MM Honorable Mention Award, 2024
• National Scholarships for Postgraduate Students, 2023
• Second Prize of the Fifth National Crypto-math Challenge at the National Level, 2020

📂 Projects

• Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province, Friendly Face Privacy Protection Based on AIGC, 2025-2026, PI

📖 Educations

• ^🎓 2025.09 - Now,     Visiting Ph.D. (CSC), University of Milan, Italy, supervised by Prof. Pierangela Samarati (IEEE/ACM Fellow).
• ^🎓 2024.04 - Now,     Ph.D., Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cyberspace Security, China, supervised by Prof. Yushu Zhang.
• ^🎓 2021.09 - 2024.04, M.S., Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cyberspace Security, China, supervised by Prof. Yushu Zhang.
• ^🎓 2017.09 - 2021.06, B.E., Anhui Normal University, Computer Science and Technology, China, supervised by Prof. Liping Sun.

💬 Services

• Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Knowledge-Based Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, Information Sciences
• Conference Reviewer: ICLR, SIGKDD, ACM MM