I am currently a second-year Ph.D. student at the College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Univeristy, supervised by Prof. Jingyi Wang. Previously, I received the B.Eng. degree from Zhejiang University in 2024.
My research interest lies in the safety of Cyber-Physical System (CPS) and Embodied AI.
🔥 News
- 2026.04: 🎉🎉 STBack is accepted at ACL 2026 Findings!
- 2026.02: 🎉🎉 FlowHijack is accepted at CVPR 2026!
- 2026.01: 🎉🎉 CrossPL is accepted at ICLR 2026!
📝 Publications
CVPR 2026

FlowHijack: A Dynamics-Aware Backdoor Attack on Flow-Matching Vision-Language-Action Models
Xinyuan An, Tao Luo, Gengyun Peng, Yaobing Wang, Kui Ren, Dongxia Wang
- Vision-Language-Action models relying on flow-matching vector-field dynamics suffer from unexamined security risks. We propose FlowHijack, the first backdoor attack targeting such continuous policies. It stealthily manipulates action generation while maintaining benign performance and kinematic normality, exposing critical vulnerabilities in embodied models and demanding dedicated defenses.
ACL 2026 Findings

Watch Out Your Industrial Copilots: Stealthy Backdoor Attack Against LLM-Based PLC Code Generation
Xinyuan An, Xiaoxia Liu, Dongxia Wang, Zhanhang Xiong, Wenhai Wang
- LLM-based PLC code generation introduces unexamined security risks to industrial control systems. We propose STBack, the first stealthy backdoor attack targeting such industrial copilots. It leverages semantic-integrated triggers to stealthily generate compromised PLC code that bypasses formal verification while maintaining semantic normality , exposing critical physical vulnerabilities and demanding dedicated defenses.
ICLR 2026

Zhanhang Xiong, Dongxia Wang, Yuekang Li, Xinyuan An, Wenhai Wang
📖 Educations
- 2024.09 - Now, PhD Student, Cyberspace Security, Zhejiang Univeristy.
- 2020.09 - 2024.06, Undergraduate, Automation, Zhejiang Univeristy.
🎮 Hobbies and Interests
- 🎶 Music. I like singing, and I can play the guitar, piano and accordion.
- 🏸 Sports. I like cycling, badminton and table tennis.
- 📷 Photography.
👩🏻🎓 Academic Services
Program Committee Member
- AAAI 2026
- ISSRE 2025
💻 Internships
- 2025.03 - Now, Huzhou Institute of Industrial Control Technology, China.