Ph.D. Candidate · National Taiwan University

AI Security &
Trustworthy AI

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University, where I work in the Artificial Intelligence Security Lab (AIS Lab) under Prof. Shang-Tse Chen.

I am currently a research intern at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan, supervised by Prof. Isao Echizen.

Before joining AIS Lab, I was a full-time Research Assistant at AIIU Lab, Academia Sinica, under Prof. Jun-Cheng Chen, where I focused on improving the robustness of computer vision systems.

Research

My research spans both the theoretical and applied security of machine learning. I am particularly interested in AI security and Trustworthy AI — making models provably robust, fair, and privacy-preserving rather than merely accurate.

  • 01

    Certified Robustness

    Randomized smoothing, orthogonal layers, and training objectives that yield provable guarantees instead of empirical ones.

  • 02

    Adversarial Machine Learning

    Physical and digital attacks on vision systems, and robust training for detection and classification.

  • 03

    Trustworthy AI

    Fairness and privacy as first-class objectives alongside robustness.

News

2026.03
Started a research internship at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, hosted by Prof. Isao Echizen.
2025.05
“Enhancing Certified Robustness via Block Reflector Orthogonal Layers and Logit Annealing Loss” is accepted to ICML 2025 as a spotlight.
2023.12
“Towards Large Certified Radius in Randomized Smoothing Using Quasiconcave Optimization” is accepted to AAAI 2024.

Publications

* denotes equal contribution.

  1. ICML 2025 Spotlight

    Enhancing Certified Robustness via Block Reflector Orthogonal Layers and Logit Annealing Loss

    Bo-Han Lai*, Pin-Han Huang*, Bo-Han Kung*, Shang-Tse Chen

    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025

  2. AAAI 2024

    Towards Large Certified Radius in Randomized Smoothing Using Quasiconcave Optimization

    Bo-Han Kung, Shang-Tse Chen

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024, pp. 21285–21293

  3. ICASSP 2022

    CLIPCAM: A Simple Baseline for Zero-Shot Text-Guided Object and Action Localization

    Hsuan-An Hsia, Che-Hsien Lin, Bo-Han Kung, Jhao-Ting Chen, Daniel Stanley Tan, Jun-Cheng Chen, Kai-Lung Hua

    IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022, pp. 4453–4457

  4. ICCV 2021

    Naturalistic Physical Adversarial Patch for Object Detectors

    Yu-Chih-Tuan Hu, Bo-Han Kung, Daniel Stanley Tan, Jun-Cheng Chen, Kai-Lung Hua, Wen-Huang Cheng

    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021, pp. 7848–7857

  5. CVPR 2021

    Class-Aware Robust Adversarial Training for Object Detection

    Pin-Chun Chen, Bo-Han Kung, Jun-Cheng Chen

    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021, pp. 10420–10429

  6. ICIP 2021

    Squeeze and Reconstruct: Improved Practical Adversarial Defense Using Paired Image Compression and Reconstruction

    Bo-Han Kung, Pin-Chun Chen, Yu-Cheng Liu, Jun-Cheng Chen

    IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2021, pp. 849–853

  7. JBHI 2021 Journal

    An Efficient ECG Classification System Using Resource-Saving Architecture and Random Forest

    Bo-Han Kung, Po-Yuan Hu, Chiu-Chang Huang, Cheng-Che Lee, Chia-Yu Yao, Chieh-Hsiung Kuan

    IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 1904–1914, June 2021

  8. CLEO 2020

    Baseline Correction and Denoising of Raman Spectra by Deep Residual CNN

    Bo-Han Kung, Chiu-Chang Huang, Po-Yuan Hu, Shao-Yu Lo, Cheng-Che Lee, Chia-Yu Yao, Chieh-Hsiung Kuan

    Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2020

Education

  • 2021 — present

    Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Information Engineering

    National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan

  • 2018 — 2020

    M.S. in Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics

    National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan

  • 2014 — 2018

    B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

    National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan

Experience

  • 2022.02 — 2025.06

    Teaching Assistant

    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University

    Course: Introduction to Medical Informatics

  • 2021.09 — 2022.01

    Teaching Assistant

    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University

    Course: Digital Signal Processing

  • 2020.07 — 2021.08

    Research Assistant Full-time · 13 months

    Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica

    Advised by Prof. Jun-Cheng Chen. Research: computer vision, neural network robustness.

  • 2020.02 — 2020.06

    Teaching Assistant

    Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University

    Course: Probability and Statistics

  • 2019.09 — 2020.01

    Teaching Assistant

    Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University

    Course: Differential Equations

  • 2019.02 — 2019.06

    Teaching Assistant

    Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University

    Course: Electronic Circuits

  • 2018.09 — 2019.01

    Teaching Assistant

    Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University

    Course: Differential Equations