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Meng Tong
童 蒙

Privacy Enhancement
& Trustworthy Machine Learning

I am currently a final-year Master's candidate in cybersecurity at USTC, co-advised by Prof. Kejiang Chen and Prof. Weiming Zhang. I received my bachelor's degree from the Talent Program at USTC, where I had the privilege of studying alongside a cohort of Gifted Young. I enjoyed being a CTF player in Web and was the team captain of NEBULA.

As I dream and as I grow, I still hope my work helps and makes a difference.

Selected Publications

[Security'26]

 Membership Inference Attacks on Tokenizers of Large Language Models
Meng Tong, Yuntao Du, Kejiang Chen, Weiming Zhang, Ninghui Li
In USENIX Security Symposium, 2026
[Paper] [Code]

[TL;DR: The first revelation of membership leakage from tokenizers of LLMs]

[NAACL'25, Oral]

 On the Vulnerability of Text Sanitization
Meng Tong, Kejiang Chen, Xiaojian Yuan, Jiayang Liu,Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu, Jie Zhang
In North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025
[Paper] [Code]

[TL;DR: Establish optimal reconstruction attacks against text sanitization]

[TDSC'25]

 InferDPT: Privacy-Preserving Inference for Black-box Large Language Models
Meng Tong, Kejiang Chen, Jie Zhang, Yuang Qi, Weiming Zhang, Tianwei Zhang, Zhikun Zhang
In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2025
[Paper] [Code]

[TL;DR: The first implementation of differential privacy in text generation of LLMs]

Journal & Conference Reviewers

  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
  • IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
  • The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  • ACM Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM)
  • AEC, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)

Selected Honors & Awards

  • National Scholarship, China, 2025
  • Distinguished Graduates, USTC, 2024
  • Honors Bachelor from Gifted Student Program, USTC, 2024
  • 2nd Prize in National University CTF Competition, 2023
  • 2nd Prize in Strong Net CTF Competition, 2022
  • 5th Place in Tencent Internation CTF Competition, 2022