About

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Emory University. Currently, I am working with Dr. Li Xiong.

Recent Updates

Jun 2025: Our paper on leveraging LLMs for synthetic mobility data receives the best student paper award at IEEE MDM’25

May 2025: I do a research internship at ORNL this summer

May 2025: Our work DuoLearn on mitigating membership inference attacks for LLMs is accepted at ACL’25 (Findings)

Aug 2024: Presented our work on DP synthetic tabular generation using LLMs at TPDP’24

Selected Publications

Toan Tran and Li Xiong, “Differentially private tabular data synthesis using large language models”, presented at TPDP’24 arXiv

Toan Tran, Ruixuan Liu, and Li Xiong “Tokens for Learning, Tokens for Unlearning: Mitigating Membership Inference Attacks in Large Language Models via Dual-Purpose Training”, ACL’25 (Findings) arXiv

Services

PC & Reviewers for Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving @ NeurIPS 2022, 2023

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing [2024]

Reviewer for ACM Computing Surveys [2024]