Qiyi Yao
Qiyi Yao

Postdoctoral Researcher

Bilkent University

I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, working with Prof. Tolga M. Duman. I am interested in a number of areas related to the theoretical and practical aspects of computer science, but primarily in steganography, coding theory, and DNA storage systems.

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Experience

  1. Postdoctoral Researcher

    Bilkent University
    Supervisor: Prof. Tolga M. Duman

Education

  1. Ph.D. in Cyber Science & Technoloogy (Cyberspace Security)

    University of Science & Technology of China (USTC)
    Advisor: Prof. Weiming Zhang

  2. B.Eng. in Computer Science & Technology

    Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU)
    Advisor: Prof. Fangjun Huang
Awards and Honors
Outstanding Graduate Award
University of Science and Technology of China ∙ June 2025
First-class Scholarship
University of Science and Technology of China ∙ September 2024
First-class Scholarship
University of Science and Technology of China ∙ September 2021
CUDA Certificate
Nvidia China ∙ June 2019
Publications
Zijin Yang, Xin Zhang, Kejiang Chen, Kai Zeng, Qiyi Yao, Han Fang, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu (2025). Gaussian Shading++: Rethinking the Realistic Deployment Challenge of Performance-Lossless Image Watermark for Diffusion Models. Submitted, IEEE TPAMI.
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Yuang Qi, Na Zhao, Qiyi Yao, Benlong Wu, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu, Kejiang Chen (2025). STEAD: Robust Provably Secure Linguistic Steganography with Diffusion Language Model. Submitted, NeurIPS 2025.
Qiyi Yao, Weiming Zhang, Kai Zeng, Kejiang Chen (2025). Rate-Distortion Theory of Robust Adaptive Steganographic Coding. Submitted, IEEE JSAC.
Muhammad Waqas, Sian-Jheng Lin, Bin Liu, Qiyi Yao, Adnan Fazil (2025). A New Weight Function for Highest Random Weight Scheme and its Efficient Lookup Implementations. Submitted, IEEE TNSM.
Qiyi Yao, Weiming Zhang, Kejiang Chen, Nenghai Yu (2025). Lossy Polar Coding for a Symmetric Discrete Memoryless Source with a Time-Varying Distortion Measure. In Preparation.
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Miscellaneous

Teaching

In Fall 2024, I was the Teaching Assistant (TA) of CYSC6405P.01: Information Hiding.

Contact Information
Please contact me via e-mail and I will respond as soon as possible.
E-mail: qyyao@mail.ustc.edu.cn