Kelvin Yuxiang Huang
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science @ University of Toronto
kelvinhuang[at]cs.toronto.edu
I am a first-year Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Gururaj Saileshwar in the SITH Lab.
Prior to my Ph.D., I completed my undergraduate studies in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
My research primarily focuses on agentic system security, with an emphasis on mitigating system-level security risks in autonomous and tool-using AI agents. I am particularly interested in runtime security, privilege-boundary enforcement, attack-path abstractions, and security monitoring for agentic systems.
Previously, my research spanned trustworthy AI and adversarial robustness. At UC Berkeley, I conducted research on trustworthy agentic AI advised by Prof. Dawn Song, focusing on structured observability for agent systems. I also worked on adversarial robustness for large vision-language models, advised by Prof. Qingyun Wang.
Earlier, I also worked on 3D generation at HKU with Prof. Xihui Liu, and on computational vision at UC Berkeley with Prof. Dennis Levi.
news
| Sep 01, 2026 | Excited to begin my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, advised by Prof. Gururaj Saileshwar. 🎓 |
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| May 16, 2026 | Graduated from UC Berkeley with degrees in Computer Science and Statistics. 🎓 |
| Nov 19, 2025 | Thrilled to share that our paper on Trustworthy Agentic AI has been accepted to the AAAI 2026 TrustAgent Workshop! 🎉 |
| Nov 05, 2025 | Thrilled to share that our paper on VLM adversarial robustness has been accepted to the AAAI 2026 AIGOV Workshop! 🎉 |
selected publications
- AAAIw
ATLAS: Shielding Geolocation in LVLMs with Zero-Query Universal PerturbationsIn AAAI-26 Workshop on AI for Governance (AIGOV), 2026Accepted (Poster, Non-archival) - AAAIw
AgentTrace: A Structured Logging Framework for Agent System ObservabilityIn AAAI-26 Workshop on AI for TrustAgent, 2026Accepted (Poster, Non-archival)
* Equal contribution