About Me
Hello! I am a researcher and engineer at Apple , working on private federated learning. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell University
(Cornell Tech)
with Prof. Vitaly Shmatikov.
Before that, I received my bachelor's degree at Emory University,
where I worked closely with Prof. Ymir Vigfusson and Prof. Lee Cooper on some fun
real world deep learning application projects.
Publications and Manuscripts
(* indicates equal contribution)
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Training a Tokenizer for Free with Private Federated Learning
[pdf]
E.Bagdasaryan, C.Song, R.van Dalen, M.Seigel, Á.Cahill
In arXiv preprint, 2022
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You Autocomplete Me: Poisoning Vulnerabilities in Neural Code Completion
[pdf]
R.Schuster, C.Song, E. Tromer, V.Shmatikov
In USENIX Security Symposium, 2021
Distinguished Paper Award
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Cell-phone Traces Reveal Infection-associated Behavioral Change
[pdf][code]
Y.Vigfusson, T.A.Karlsson, D.Onken, C.Song, A.F.Einarsson, N.Kishore, R.M.Mitchell, E.Brooks-Pollock, G.Sigmundsdottir, L.Danon
In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 2021
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Adversarial Semantic Collisions
[pdf][code]
C.Song, A.Rush, V.Shmatikov
In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
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Information Leakage in Embedding Models
[pdf][code]
C.Song, A.Raghunathan
In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2020
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Generalized Zero-Shot Text Classification for ICD Coding
[pdf][code]
C.Song, S.Zhang, N.Sadoughi, P.Xie, E.P.Xing
In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2020
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Membership Encoding for Deep Learning
[pdf]
C.Song, R.Shokri
In ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2020
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Overlearning Reveals Sensitive Attributes
[pdf][code][slides]
C.Song, V.Shmatikov
In International Conference on Learning Representation (ICLR), 2020
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Auditing Data Provenance in Text-Generation Models
[pdf][code][slides]
C.Song, V.Shmatikov
In ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2019
Oral Presentation
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Exploiting Unintended Feature Leakage in Collaborative Learning
[pdf][code][talk][slides]
L.Melis*, C.Song*, E. De Cristofaro, V.Shmatikov
In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2019
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What Are Machine Learning Models Hiding?
[pdf]
V.Shamtikov, C.Song
In Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs), 2018
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Kernel Distillation for Fast Gaussian Processes Prediction
[pdf][code]
C.Song*, Y.Sun*
In NeurIPS Workshop on All of Bayesian Nonparametrics (BNP@NeurIPS), 2018
Spotlight Presentation
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Chiron: Privacy-preserving Machine Learning as a Service
[pdf]
T.Hunt, C.Song, R.Shokri, V.Shmatikov, E.Witchel
In arXiv preprint, 2018
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Fooling OCR Systems with Adversarial Text Images
[pdf][code by F.Tramèr et al]
C.Song, V.Shmatikov
In arXiv preprint, 2018
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Predicting Clinical Outcomes from Large Scale Cancer Genomic Profiles with Deep Survival Models
[pdf][code]
S.Yousefi, F.Amrollahi, M.Amgad, C.Dong, J.E.Lewis, C.Song, D.A.Gutman, S.H.Halani, J.E.V.Vega, D.J.Brat, L.A.D.Cooper
In Scientific Reports (Nature), 2017
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Machine Learning Models that Remembers Too Much
[pdf][code][talk][slides]
C.Song, T.Risternpart, V.Shmatikov
In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2017
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Membership Inference Attacks Against Machine Learning Models
[pdf][code][talk]
R.Shokri, M.Stronati, C.Song, V.Shmatikov
In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2017
The Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2018
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Learning Genomic Representations to Predict Clinical Outcomes in Cancer
[pdf][code]
S.Yousefi, C.Song, N.Nauata, L.Cooper
In International Conference on Learning Representation Workshop (ICLRW), 2016
Past Experience
Applied scientist intern at Amazon, Summer 2020
Research intern at Google Brain, Fall 2019
Research intern at Petuum Inc, Summer 2019