Hongyang Zhang is a tenure-track assistant professor at University of Waterloo and Vector Institute for AI. He received his PhD in 2019 from Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University and did a Postdoc at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. He is the winner of NeurIPS 2018 Adversarial Vision Challenge, CVPR 2021 Security AI Challenger, Amazon Research Award, WAIC Yunfan Award, etc. His paper on adversarial security ranks 13/6729 (top 0.19%) for its citations among all accepted papers in ICML 2018-2023. He also served as an area chair for NeurIPS, ICLR, AISTATS, AAAI, ACM CCS, and an action editor for DMLR.