Jiale Cai | PhD Student in Computer Science

About Me

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Western University, advised by Prof. Charles Ling (Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering) and Prof. Boyu Wang.

Prior to this, I received my Master's degree and Bachelor's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Junqing Yu and Prof. Wei Yang.

Research Interests: My research focuses on adversarial machine learning, including unlearnable examples, adversarial perturbations, and their applications in deep learning security. I am also interested in video understanding, anomaly detection, and generative models.

News

2025.09 One paper on Unlearnable Examples accepted to NeurIPS 2025!
2025.01 Started my PhD journey at Western University!
2024.12 One paper on Video Anomaly Detection accepted to AAAI 2025!
2024.12 Three papers accepted to AAAI 2024 on text-to-image diffusion, person re-identification, and adversarial attacks!

Publications

(* indicates equal contribution)

Versatile Transferable Unlearnable Example Generator

Zhihao Li*, Jiale Cai*, Gezheng Xu, Hao Zheng, Qiuyue Li, Fan Zhou, Shichun Yang, Charles Ling, Boyu Wang

NeurIPS 2025 — Neural Information Processing Systems

Paper

Video Anomaly Detection with Motion and Appearance Guided Patch Diffusion Model

Hang Zhou, Jiale Cai, Yuteng Ye, Yonghui Feng, Chenxing Gao, Junqing Yu, Zikai Song, Wei Yang

AAAI 2025 — Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Paper

Progressive Text-to-Image Diffusion with Soft Latent Direction

Yuteng Ye, Jiale Cai, Hang Zhou, Guanwen Li, Youjia Zhang, Zikai Song, Chenxing Gao, Junqing Yu, Wei Yang

AAAI 2024 — Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Paper

Dynamic Feature Pruning and Consolidation for Occluded Person Re-Identification

Yuteng Ye, Hang Zhou, Jiale Cai, Chenxing Gao, Youjia Zhang, Junle Wang, Qiang Hu, Junqing Yu, Wei Yang

AAAI 2024 — Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Paper

Attacking Transformers with Feature Diversity Adversarial Perturbation

Chenxing Gao, Hang Zhou, Junqing Yu, Yuteng Ye, Jiale Cai, Junle Wang, Wei Yang

AAAI 2024 — Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Paper

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science Jan 2025 – Present

Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Advisors: Prof. Charles Ling & Prof. Boyu Wang

M.S. in Cyber Science and Engineering Sep 2021 – Jun 2024

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Advisor: Prof. Junqing Yu

B.E. in Cyber Science and Engineering Sep 2017 – Jun 2021

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Awards

Merit Postgraduate, Huazhong University of Science and Technology 2021

Outstanding Undergraduate, Huazhong University of Science and Technology 2021

Academic Service

Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS 2025, AAAI 2026