👋Tony (Lipeng) He
I am a student, software engineer, and researcher at the University of Waterloo.
I'm pursuing a Master of Mathematics (Research/Thesis) degree in Computer Science at UWaterloo. I am grateful to be advised by N. Asokan.
I'm part of Secure Systems Group (SSG), Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Lab, and the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI). I also worked with Jian Liu at ABC Lab, Zhejiang University. Currently, my office is located in the William G. Davis Computer Research Centre, DC 3333B, M3.
I'm in pursuit of knowledge, experience, and the various other beautiful things life has to offer. I strive to live deliberately. Before research, I spent some years doing software engineering. In the limit of my life, I also hope to be a pianist, writer, podcaster, designer, and entrepreneur.
My research interests span computer security and the theory & applications of cryptography (especially across computing and data sciences).
I think broadly about the privacy, security and trustworthiness of modern computing systems; this intersects with areas such as:
- Trustworthy Machine Learning (ML Safety, Security & Privacy)
- Blockchain Security and Scalability, and
- Secure Computation
Through a combination of systems design and analysis, I hope to make deployed solutions more reliable, useful, and aligned, while also enabling entirely new application scenarios.
My research is supported by the International Master's Award of Excellence (IMAE) and the David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship.
Activation Approximations Can Incur Safety Vulnerabilities Even in Aligned LLMs: Comprehensive Analysis and Defense
LookAhead: Preventing DeFi Attacks via Unveiling Adversarial Contracts
Secure Transformer Inference Made Non-interactive
On the Atomicity and Efficiency of Blockchain Payment Channels
FedVLP: Visual-aware Latent Prompt Generation for Multimodal Federated Learning
A Survey of Multimodal Federated Learning: Background, Applications, and Perspectives
Locket: Robust Feature-Locking Technique for Language Models
Safety at One Shot: Patching Fine-Tuned LLMs with A Single Instance
StructEval: Benchmarking LLMs' Capabilities to Generate Structural Outputs
Token-by-Token Manipulation: Inference-Time Jailbreaking on Production LLMs via Autoregressive Harmful Guidance
UWaterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI) Graduate Student Conference (GradConf 2025)
Program Committee Member
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETs/PETS) 2026
Artifact Evaluation
Program Committee Member
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2025
Artifact Evaluation
Invited Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
Student Member
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
lipenghe@acm.org
University of Waterloo
Instructional Apprentice (IA)
CS 135 Designing Functional Programs
Bluelet AI
Interim CTO
Agentic AI and data platform solutions for talent acquisition and matching
University of Waterloo
Research Assistant (URA)
Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) Lab
University of Waterloo
Teaching Assistant (ISA)
CS 135 Designing Functional Programs
Zhejiang University
Research Assistant
ABC Lab, Institute of Cyberspace Research
BioRender
Full Stack Software Engineer
SaaS, Y Combinator W18
Toronto, ON
Safyre Labs
Full Stack Software Engineer
E-Commerce Platform, Supply Chain
North York, ON
Bitbuy
Software Engineer
Cryptocurrency Exchange, Publicly Traded on TSX: WNDR
Toronto, ON
University of Waterloo
Master's Degree (Research/Thesis)
Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Honours Bachelor's Degree (Co-op)
Mathematics (Minor in Computing)
New Article Everytime I Publish :)