Publications

For a full list of publications, see my Google Scholar page.

2026

On Membership Inference Attacks in Knowledge Distillation

Ziyao Cui, Minxing Zhang, Jian Pei
ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter, Volume 28, Issue 1, June 2026

Bayesian Small Area Estimation of Inadequate Micronutrient Intake

Sahoko Ishida, Mohammed Osman, Ziyao Cui, Uchenna Agu, Emily Becher, Gabriel Battcock, Daniel Hernandez, Duccio Piovani, Frances Knight, Seth Flaxman, Kevin Tang
arXiv preprint; Under Review at the International Journal of Health Geographics

How Is Uncertainty Propagated in Knowledge Distillation?

Ziyao Cui, Jian Pei
arXiv preprint

2025

Beyond the Laplacian: Interpolated Spectral Augmentation for Graph Neural Networks

Ziyao Cui, Edric Tam
arXiv preprint

Learning to Attack: Uncovering Privacy Risks in Sequential Data Releases

Ziyao Cui, Minxing Zhang, Jian Pei
arXiv preprint

Revisiting Broken Windows Theory

Ziyao Cui, Erick Jiang, Nicholas Sortisio, Haiyan Wang, Eric Chen, Cynthia Rudin
arXiv preprint; Under Review at AAAI 2027