Ming Yin

PhD Student @ Duke University

About

Hi, I am a second-year PhD student at Duke University, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Yiran Chen.
I received my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from School of the Gifted Young, University of Science and Technology of China in 2024 at 20 years old.

🎉 New! I will be a Research Scientist Intern at Meta, Menlo Park in summer 2026. See you in the Bay Area!

My research focuses on LLM Agents, LLM Reasoning, and Trustworthy AI.

Education

Ph.D. Aug. 2024 - Present Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S. Ph.D. student in ECE Advisor: Prof. Yiran Chen

B.S. Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2024 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) B.S. in Computer Science from School of the Gifted Young

Experiences

May 2026 -- Aug 2026, Meta, Menlo Park, CA, U.S. Research Scientist Intern

May 2025 -- Aug 2025, Zoom, Seattle, WA, U.S. Research Intern, Worked on Agent MCP Tool Calling

Selected Publications (* Equal Contribution)

LiveMCP-101: Stress Testing and Diagnosing MCP-enabled Agents on Challenging Queries

Ming Yin, Dinghan Shen, Silei Xu, Jianbing Han, Sixun Dong, Mian Zhang, Yebowen Hu, ..., Yiran Chen, Kaiqiang Song

preprint

[Paper] [Synced] [AK]

Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When? On Automated Failure Attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems

Shaokun Zhang*, Ming Yin*, Jieyu Zhang, Jiale Liu, Jingyang Zhang, Beibin Li, Chi Wang, Huazheng Wang, Yiran Chen, Qingyun Wu

🏆 ICML 2025 Spotlight

[Paper] [Synced]

Poisoning Federated Recommender Systems with Fake Users

Ming Yin*, Yichang Xu*, Minghong Fang, Neil Gong

WWW 2024

[Paper]

LoBAM: LoRA-Based Backdoor Attack on Model Merging

Ming Yin, Jingyang Zhang, Jingwei Sun, Minghong Fang, Hai Li, Yiran Chen

ICLR 2025 Workshop

[Paper]

MMTok: Multimodal Coverage Maximization for Efficient Inference of VLMs

Sixun Dong, Juhua Hu, Mian Zhang, Ming Yin, Yanjie Fu, Qi Qian

ICLR 2026

[Paper]

Keyframe-oriented Vision Token Pruning: Enhancing Efficiency of Large Vision Language Models on Long-Form Video Processing

Yudong Liu, Jingwei Sun, Yueqian Lin, Jingyang Zhang, Ming Yin, Qinsi Wang, Jianyi Zhang, Hai Li, Yiran Chen

ICCV 2025

[Paper]

Robust Federated Learning Mitigates Client-side Training Data Distribution Inference Attacks

Yichang Xu*, Ming Yin*, Minghong Fang, Neil Gong

WWW 2024

[Paper]

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

ECE 661: Computer Engineering Machine Learning and Deep Neural Nets - Fall 2025

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer: ICLR 2026, EMNLP 2025, ICLR 2025, ICCV 2025, NeurIPS 2025
Journal Reviewer: TDSC

Awards

Duke ECE Travel Fellowship 2025
Excellent Student Scholarship Gold (Top 3%) 2023
Excellent Student Scholarship Gold (Top 3%) 2021
First Prize of Chinese Physics Olympiad (Top 0.04%) 2019

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