yyx@lab ~ $ whoami
Hey, this is Yixiang Yao (IPA /i:ʃiɑŋ jaʊ/ee-shaang y-ow), 姚一翔 in Chinese, a.k.a. YYX. I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
Over the years, I’ve spent time working at inspiring startups, industrial-leading big techs, and cutting-edge research institutions. I’m into all things AI, especially privacy and security in AI. But hey, AI isn’t meant to stay in a box -> Neither am I.
When I’m away from the keyboard, you’ll probably find me snowboarding, bouldering, riding my motorcycle, fixing cars, or getting my hands dirty with DIY projects.
yyx@lab ~ $ ls -t ~/Preprints/* | xargs cat
@misc{yao2024privacypreservinglanguagemodelinference,
title={Privacy-Preserving Language Model Inference with Instance Obfuscation},
author={Yixiang Yao and Fei Wang and Srivatsan Ravi and Muhao Chen},
year={2024},
eprint={2402.08227},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08227},
}
@misc{ghai2022evaluating,
title={Evaluating the Feasibility of a Provably Secure Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution Adaptation of PPJoin using Homomorphic Encryption},
author={Tanmay Ghai and Yixiang Yao and Srivatsan Ravi and Pedro Szekely},
year={2022},
eprint={2208.07999},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CR}
}
yyx@lab ~ $ ls -t ~/Publications/* | xargs cat
@inproceedings{10.1145/3770855.3818655,
author = {Yao, Yixiang and Yao, Yuhang and Fan, Xinyi and Gao, Jiechao and Wang, Jie and Zhang, Minjia and Ravi, Srivatsan and Joe-Wong, Carlee},
title = {Trustworthy Agent Network: Trust in Agent Networks Must Be Baked In, Not Bolted On},
year = {2026},
isbn = {9798400722592},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3770855.3818655},
doi = {10.1145/3770855.3818655},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.2},
pages = {13252–13258},
numpages = {7},
keywords = {llm agents, multi-agent systems, trustworthiness, agent-to-agent networks, security, privacy},
location = {Republic of Korea},
series = {KDD '26}
}
@inproceedings{yao2025feasibility,
title={Feasibility of Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution on Confidential Healthcare Datasets Using Homomorphic Encryption},
author={Yao, Yixiang and Cecil, Joseph and Angyan, Praveen and Bahroos, Neil and Ravi, Srivatsan},
booktitle={2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)},
pages={2679--2684},
year={2025},
organization={IEEE}
}
@article{yao2025labeling,
title={Labeling without Seeing? Blind Annotation for Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution},
author={Yixiang Yao and Weizhao Jin and Srivatsan Ravi},
journal={Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
issn={2835-8856},
year={2025},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=bAM8y3Hm0p},
note={}
}
@inproceedings{ghai2023lessons,
title={Lessons Learned: Building a Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution Adaptation of PPJoin using End-to-End Homomorphic Encryption},
author={Ghai, Tanmay and Yao, Yixiang and Ravi, Srivatsan},
booktitle={2023 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS\&PW)},
pages={117--124},
year={2023},
organization={IEEE Computer Society}
}
@inproceedings{yao2021amppere,
title={AMPPERE: A Universal Abstract Machine for Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution Evaluation},
author={Yao, Yixiang and Ghai, Tanmay and Ravi, Srivatsan and Szekely, Pedro},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information \& Knowledge Management},
pages={2394--2403},
year={2021}
}
@inproceedings{li2020gaia,
title={GAIA at SMKBP 2020-a dockerlized multi-media multi-lingual knowledge extraction, clustering, temporal tracking and hypothesis generation system},
author={Li, Manling and Lin, Ying and Lai, Tuan Manh and Pan, Xiaoman and Wen, Haoyang and Li, Sha and Wang, Zhenhailong and Yu, Pengfei and Huang, Lifu and Lu, Di and others},
booktitle={Proceedings of Thirteenth Text Analysis Conference (TAC 2020)},
year={2020}
}
@inproceedings{szekely2019t2wml,
title={T2WML: Table To Wikidata Mapping Language},
author={Szekely, Pedro and Garijo, Daniel and Bhatia, Divij and Wu, Jiasheng and Yao, Yixiang and Pujara, Jay},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Capture},
pages={267--270},
year={2019}
}
@inproceedings{yao2019extensible,
title={Extensible and Scalable Entity Resolution for Financial Datasets Using RLTK},
author={Yao, Yixiang and Szekely, Pedro and Pujara, Jay},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Data Science for Macro-modeling with Financial and Economic Datasets},
pages={1--1},
year={2019}
}
@inproceedings{li2019gaia,
title={GAIA at SM-KBP 2019-A Multi-media Multi-lingual Knowledge Extraction and Hypothesis Generation System.},
author={Li, Manling and Lin, Ying and Subburathinam, Ananya and Whitehead, Spencer and Pan, Xiaoman and Lu, Di and Wang, Qingyun and Zhang, Tongtao and Huang, Lifu and Ji, Heng and others},
booktitle={TAC},
year={2019}
}
@inproceedings{knoblock2017lessons,
title={Lessons learned in building linked data for the American art collaborative},
author={Knoblock, Craig A and Szekely, Pedro and Fink, Eleanor and Degler, Duane and Newbury, David and Sanderson, Robert and Blanch, Kate and Snyder, Sara and Chheda, Nilay and Jain, Nimesh and others},
booktitle={International Semantic Web Conference},
pages={263--279},
year={2017},
organization={Springer}
}
@inproceedings{knoblock2017demonstration,
title={A Demonstration of Tools for Building Linked Data for the American Art Collaborative.},
author={Knoblock, Craig A and Szekely, Pedro A and Fink, Eleanor E and Degler, Duane and Newbury, David and Sanderson, Robert and Blanch, Kate and Snyder, Sara and Chheda, Nilay and Jain, Nimesh and others}
}
@incollection{yao2013dynamic,
title={Dynamic USBKEY System on Multiple Verification Algorithm},
author={Yao, Yixiang and Gao, Jinghua and Gong, Ying},
booktitle={Emerging Technologies for Information Systems, Computing, and Management},
pages={297--304},
year={2013},
publisher={Springer}
}
yyx@lab ~ $ ls ~/Projects/* | head -n 2 | xargs cat
yyx@lab ~ $ cat ~/Contact
iyyx.me
Somewhere on Earth
yyx@lab ~ $ echo Last updated: $(find . -type f -printf "%C+\n" | sort -n | tail -n1)
Last updated: 2026-08-06+23:34:09.5715875470
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