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09/27/2024

Our paper "Is Mamba Compatible with Trajectory Optimization in Offline Reinforcement Learning?" was accepted by NeurIPS 2024. Congrats to Yang!


09/10/2024

Our paper "FirmRCA: Towards Post-Fuzzing Analysis on ARM Embedded Firmware with Efficient Event-based Fault Localization" was accepted by IEEE S&P 2025. Congrats to Boyu!


08/31/2024

Our paper "CLIBE: Detecting Dynamic Backdoors in Transformer-based NLP Models" was accepted by NDSS 2025. Congrats to Rui!


08/26/2024

Our paper "A Review of Smart Fuzzing: Problem Exploration and Method Classification (智能模糊测试综述:问题探索和方法分类)" was accepted by Chinese Journal of Computers. Congrats to Qinying!


08/07/2024

Our paper "AdversaFlow: Visual Red Teaming for Large Language Models with Multi-Level Adversarial Flow" was selected for the VIS 2024 Honorable Mention Award. Congrats to Dazhen!


07/17/2024

Our paper "Enhancing Transferability of Adversarial Examples through Mixed-Frequency Inputs" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS). Congrats to Yaguan!


07/05/2024

Our paper "TREC: APT Tactic/Technique Recognition via Few-Shot Provenance Subgraph Learning" was accepted by ACM CCS 2024. Congrats to Mingqi!


07/04/2024

Our paper "Tacoma: Enhanced Browser Fuzzing with Fine-Grained Semantic Alignment" was accepted by ISSTA 2024. Congrats to Jiashui!


06/05/2024

Our paper "Detecting Kernel Memory Bugs through Inconsistent Memory Management Intention Inferences" was accepted by USENIX Security 2024. Congrats to Dinghao!


06/04/2024

Our paper "Exploring ChatGPT’s Capabilities on Vulnerability Management" was accepted by USENIX Security 2024. Congrats to Peiyu!


06/03/2024

Our paper "Improving Indirect-Call Analysis in LLVM with Type and Data-Flow Co-Analysis" was accepted by USENIX Security 2024. Congrats to Dinghao!


05/24/2024

Our paper "SUB-PLAY: Adversarial Policies against Partially Observed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Systems" was accepted by ACM CCS 2024. Congrats to Oubo!


05/23/2024

Our paper "A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Practical Black-box Adversarial Attacks for Evading Learning-based Windows Malware Detection in the Wild" was accepted by USENIX Security 2024. Congrats to Xiang!


04/17/2024

Our paper "Protecting Object Detection Models from Model Extraction Attack via Feature Space Coverage" was accepted by IJCAI 2024. Congrats to Zeyu!


04/17/2024

Our paper "Pluggable Watermarking of Deepfake Models for Deepfake Detection" was accepted by IJCAI 2024. Congrats to Han!


03/18/2024

Our paper "VERIFI: Towards Verifiable Federated Unlearning" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Xiangshan!


03/05/2024

The ZJU NESA LAB congratulates Chenghui on successfully defending his PhD dissertation and Yangkai and Zeyu on successfully defending their MS theses. The committee was very impressed on their work.


02/12/2024

Our paper "EdgePro: Edge Deep Learning Model Protection via Neuron Authorization" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Jinyin!


02/06/2024

Our paper "Diff-ID: An Explainable Identity Difference Quantification Framework for DeepFake Detection" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Chuer!


02/06/2024

Our paper "Critical Code Guided Directed Greybox Fuzzing for Commits" was accepted by USENIX Security 2024. Congrats to Yi!


01/22/2024

Our paper "Hijack Vertical Federated Learning Models As One Party" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Pengyu!


01/21/2024

Prof. Shouling Ji was invited to serve on the TPC for ACM CCS 2024 and USENIX Security 2024.


01/20/2024

Our paper "AdvSQLi: Generating Adversarial SQL Injections against Real-world WAF-as-a-service" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS). Congrats to Zhenqing!


01/15/2024

Our paper "HashVFL: Defending Against Data Reconstruction Attacks in Vertical Federated Learning" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS). Congrats to Pengyu!


12/10/2023

Our paper "GaLileo: General Linear Relaxation Framework for Tightening Robustness Certification of Transformers" was accepted by AAAI 2024. Congrats to YunRuo!


12/09/2023

Our paper "On Defending Contrastive Learning against Backdoor Attacks" was accepted by USENIX Security 2024. Congrats to Changjiang!


12/09/2023

Our paper "Text Laundering: Mitigating Malicious Features through Knowledge Distillation of Language Foundation Models" won the Best Student Paper Award of Inscrypt 2023. Congrats to Yi!


12/09/2023

Our paper "Integer is Enough: When Vertical Federated Learning Meets Rounding" was accepted by AAAI 2024. Congrats to Pengyu!


12/09/2023

Our paper "Let All be Whitened: Multi-Teacher Distillation for Efficient Visual Retrieval" was accepted by AAAI 2024. Congrats to Zhe!


12/09/2023

Our paper "AdaCCD: Adaptive Semantic Contrasts Discovery based Cross Lingual Adaptation for Code Clone Detection" was accepted by AAAI 2024. Congrats to Yangkai!


12/03/2023

Our paper "Towards Practical Backdoor Attacks on Federated Learning Systems" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Chenghui!


11/13/2023

Our paper "Improving the Robustness of Transformer-based Large Language Models with Dynamic Attention" was accepted by NDSS 2024. Congrats to Lujia!


11/13/2023

Our paper "URadar: Discovering Unrestricted File Upload Vulnerabilities via Adaptive Dynamic Testing" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS). Congrats to Yuanchao!


09/27/2023

Our paper "Defending Pre-trained Language Models as Few-shot Learners against Backdoor Attacks" was accepted by NeurIPS 2023. Congrats to Tianyu!


08/18/2023

Our paper "Efficient Query-Based Attack against ML-Based Android Malware Detection under Zero Knowledge Setting" was accepted by ACM CCS 2023. Congrats to Ping!


08/15/2023

Our paper "Attribute-based Membership Inference Attacks and Defenses on GANs" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Hui!


08/08/2023

Our paper "MOCK: Optimizing Kernel Fuzzing Mutation with Context-aware Dependency" was accepted by NDSS 2024. Congrats to Jiacheng!


08/07/2023

Our paper "An Embarrassingly Simple Backdoor Attack on Self-supervised Learning" was accepted by ICCV 2023. Congrats to Changjiang!


07/11/2023

Our paper "SyzTrust: State-aware Fuzzing on Trusted OS Designed for IoT Devices" was accepted by IEEE S&P 2024. Congrats to Qinying!


06/22/2023

Our paper "ORL-Auditor: Dataset Auditing in Offline Deep Reinforcement Learning" was accepted by NDSS 2024. Congrats to Linkang!


05/11/2023

Our paper "Detecting Union Type Confusion in Component Object Model" was accepted by USENIX Security 2023. Congrats to Yuxing!


05/09/2023

Our paper "One Bad Apple Spoils the Barrel: Understanding the Security Risks Introduced by Third-Party Components in IoT Firmware" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Binbin!


05/03/2023

Our paper "On the Security Risks of Knowledge Graph Reasoning" was accepted by USENIX Security 2023. Congrats to Zhaohan!


04/12/2023

Dr. Shouling Ji was invited to join the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS) as an Associate Editor.


03/24/2023

Our paper "UVSCAN: Detecting Third-Party Component Usage Violations in IoT Firmware" was accepted by USENIX Security 2023. Congrats to Binbin!


02/20/2023

Our paper "FreeEagle: Detecting Complex Neural Trojans in Data-Free Cases" was accepted by USENIX Security 2023. Congrats to Chong!


02/05/2023

Our paper "Adversarial Attacks against Windows PE Malware Detection: A Survey of the State-of-the-Art" was accepted by Computers & Security. Congrats to Xiang!


01/23/2023

Our paper "The Dark Side of AutoML: Towards Architectural Backdoor Search" was accepted by ICLR 2023. Congrats to Ren!


01/16/2023

Our paper "G-Fuzz: A Directed Fuzzing Framework for gVisor" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Yuwei!


12/13/2022

Our paper "How IoT Recycling Threatens Your Sensitive Data: Exploring the User-Data Disposal in Used IoT Devices" was accepted by IEEE S&P 2023. Congrats to Peiyu!


11/12/2022

Our paper "MINER: A Hybrid Data-Driven Approach for REST API Fuzzing" was accepted by USENIX Security 2023. Congrats to Chenyang!


10/29/2022

Our paper "APT-KGL: An Intelligent APT Detection System Based on Threat Knowledge and Heterogeneous Provenance Graph Learning" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Tieming!


09/19/2022

Our paper "Your Labels Are Selling You Out: Relation Leaks in Vertical Federated Learning" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Pengyu!


08/29/2022

Our paper "Non-Distinguishable Inconsistencies as a Deterministic Oracle for Detecting Security Bugs" was accepted by ACM CCS 2022. Congrats to Qingyang!


06/13/2022

Our paper "State of the Art Survey of Open source Software Supply Chain Security" (开源软件供应链安全研究综述) was accepted by Journal of Software.


04/23/2022

Our paper "''Is your explanation stable?'': A Robustness Evaluation Framework for Feature Attribution" was accepted by ACM CCS 2022. Congrats to Yuyou!


04/08/2022

Our paper "SLIME: Program-sensitive Energy Allocation for Fuzzing" was accepted by ISSTA 2022. Congrats to Chenyang!


04/08/2022

Our paper "A Large-Scale Empirical Analysis of the Vulnerabilities Introduced by Third-party Components in IoT Firmware" was accepted by ISSTA 2022. Congrats to Binbin!


04/06/2022

Our paper "Transfer Attacks Revisited: A Large-Scale Empirical Study in Real Computer Vision Settings" was accepted by IEEE S&P 2022. Congrats to Yuhao!


02/23/2022

Our paper "TrojanZoo: Towards Unified, Holistic, and Practical Evaluation of Neural Backdoors" was accepted by Euro S&P 2022. Congrats to Ren!


02/15/2022

Our paper "Seeing is Living? Rethinking the Security of Facial Liveness Verification in the Deepfake Era" was accepted by USENIX Security 2022. Congrats to Changjiang!


02/10/2022

Our paper "Fraud-agents Detection in Online Microfinance: A Large-scale Empirical Study" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Yiming!


12/30/2021

Our paper "Investigating Pose Representations and Motion Contexts Modeling for 3D Motion Prediction" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI). Congrats to Zhenguang!


12/30/2021

Dr. Shouling Ji was invited to serve on the TPC for ACM CCS'22, IJCAI'22, AAAI'22, and DSC'22.


12/07/2021

Our paper "MalGraph: Hierarchical Graph Neural Networks for Robust Windows Malware Detection" was accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2022. Congrats to Xiang!


12/07/2021

Our paper "Copy, Right? A Testing Framework for Copyright Protection of Deep Learning Models" was accepted by IEEE S&P 2022. Congrats to Jialuo!


12/03/2021

Our paper "NeuronFair: Interpretable White-Box Fairness Testing through Biased Neuron Identification" was accepted by ICSE 2022. Congrats to Haibin!


11/17/2021

Our paper "V-SHUTTLE: Scalable and Semantics-Aware Hypervisor Virtual Device Fuzzing" won the Best Paper Award of ACM CCS 2021.


10/27/2021

Our paper "GRIP-GAN: An Attack-Free Defense through General Robust Inverse Perturbation" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Haibin!


10/21/2021

Our paper "EMS: History-Driven Mutation for Coverage-based Fuzzing" was accepted by NDSS 2022. Congrats to Chenyang!


10/8/2021

Our paper "Price TAG: Towards Semi-Automatically Discovery Tactics, Techniques and Procedures OF E-Commerce Cyber Threat Intelligence" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Yiming!


9/23/2021

Our paper "On the Security Risks of AutoML" was accepted by USENIX Security 2022. Congrats to Ren!


9/19/2021

Our paper "Towards Certifying the Asymmetric Robustness for Neural Networks: Quantification and Applications" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Changjiang!


9/17/2021

Our paper "Fine-Grained Fashion Similarity Prediction by Attribute-Specific Embedding Learning" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP). Congrats to Jianfeng!


9/5/2021

Our paper "Backdoor Pre-trained Models Can Transfer to All" was accepted by ACM CCS 2021. Congrats to Lujia!


9/4/2021

Our paper "Detecting Missed Security Operations Through Differential Checking of Object-based Similar Paths" was accepted by ACM CCS 2021. Congrats to Dinghao!


9/4/2021

Our paper "CPscan: Detecting Bugs Caused by Code Pruning in IoT Kernels" was accepted by ACM CCS 2021. Congrats to Lirong!


8/31/2021

恭喜何平获得“第十四届全国大学生信息安全竞赛”二等奖!


8/31/2021

Our paper "Constructing Contrastive samples via Summarization for Text Classification with limited annotations" was accepted by EMNLP 2021. Congrats to Yangkai!


8/3/2021

Our paper "Label Inference Attacks Against Vertical Federated Learning" was accepted by USENIX Security 2022. Congrats to Chong!


7/27/2021

Our paper "Multi-level Graph Matching Networks for Deep Graph Similarity Learning" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS). Congrats to Xiang!


7/21/2021

Our paper "V-SHUTTLE: Scalable and Semantics-Aware Hypervisor Fuzzing" was accepted by ACM CCS 2021. Congrats to Gaoning!


7/9/2021

Our paper "Incentive-driven Proactive Application Deployment and Pricing on Distributed Edges" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Congrats to Shuiguang!


7/8/2021

Our paper "iFIZZ: Deep-State and Efficient Fault-Scenario Generation to Test IoT Firmware" was accepted by ASE 2021. Congrats to Peiyu!


6/11/2021

Our paper "This Hacker Knows Physics: Device Physics Aware Mimicry Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Qinchen!


5/23/2021

Our paper "Remote Attacks on Drones Vision Sensors: An Empirical Study" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Zhangjie!


5/22/2021

Our paper "MPInspector: A Systematic and Automatic Approach for Evaluating the Security of Iot Messaging Protocols" was accepted by USENIX Security 2021. Congrats to Qinying!


5/6/2021

Our paper "AHEAD: Adaptive Hierarchical Decomposition for Range Query under Local Differential Privacy" was accepted by ACM CCS 2021. Congrats to Linkang!


4/29/2021

Our paper "Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection: From Pure Neural Network to Interpretable Graph Feature and Expert Pattern Fusion" was accepted by IJCAI 2021. Congrats to Zhenguang!


4/26/2021

Dr. Shouling Ji was invited to serve on the TPC for NDSS 2022.


4/11/2021

Our paper "A Practical Black-box Attack on Source Code Authorship Identification Classifiers" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS). Congrats to Qianjun!


3/24/2021

Our paper "Adversarial CAPTCHAs" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB). Congrats to Chenghui!


3/24/2021

Our paper "Cert-RNN: Towards Certifying the Robustness of Recurrent Neural Networks" was accepted by ACM CCS 2021. Congrats to Tianyu!


3/11/2021

Our paper "Deep Dual Consecutive Network for Human Pose Estimation" was accepted by CVPR 2021. Congrats to Zhenguang!


3/9/2021

Our paper "Trojaning Language Models for Fun and Profit" was accepted by Euro S&P 2021.


2/13/2021

Our paper "Turbo: Fraud Detection in Deposit-free Leasing Service via Real-Time Behavior Network Mining" was accepted by ICDE 2021. Congrats to Sihao.


1/29/2021

Our paper "Robustness Certification Research on Deep Learning Models: A Survey (深度学习模型鲁棒性研究综述)" was accepted by Chinese Journal of Computers. Congrats to Tianyu!


1/15/2021

Our paper "Deep Graph Matching and Searching for Semantic Code Retrieval" was accepted by ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD). Congrats to Xiang!


1/6/2021

Our paper "Graph Backdoor" was accepted by USENIX Security 2021. Congrats to Zhaohan.


12/24/2020

Our paper "Private Cell-ID Trajectory Prediction Using Multi-Graph Embedding and EncoderDecoder Network" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Congrats to Mingqi.


12/5/2020

Our paper "PROCESS: Privacy-Preserving On-Chain Certificate Status Service" was accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2021. Congrats to Meng.


12/2/2020

Our two papers "i-Algebra: Towards Interactive Interpretability of Deep Neural Networks" and "Aggregated Multi-GANs for Controlled 3D Human Motion Prediction" were accepted by AAAI 2021. Congrats to Xinyang and Zhenguang.


11/5/2020

Our paper "A Large-scale Empirical Study on the Vulnerability of Deployed IoT Devices" [PDF] was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Binbin!


10/18/2020

Dr. Shouling Ji was invited to serve as the Senior Program Committee (SPC) member of IJCAI 2021.


9/16/2020

Our paper "Unsupervised Reference-Free Summary Quality Evaluation via Contrastive Learning" was accepted by EMNLP 2020. Congrats to Hanlu!


9/4/2020

Dr. Shouling Ji was invited to serve on the TPC for AAAI 2021.


8/28/2020

Our paper "A Survey on Deepfakes and Detection Techniques (深度伪造与检测技术综述)" [PDF] was accepted by Journal of Software. Congrats to Xurong!


8/26/2020

Dr. Shouling Ji was invited to serve on the TPC for IJCAI 2021.


8/15/2020

Our paper "UNIFUZZ: A Holistic and Pragmatic Metrics-Driven Platform" [PDF] was accepted by USENIX Security 2021. Congrats to Yuwei and Yuan!


7/25/2020

Our paper "V-Fuzz: Vulnerability Prediction Assisted Evolutionary Fuzzing for Binary Programs" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. Congrats to Yuwei!


6/30/2020

Our paper "Understanding the Security Risks of Docker Hub" [PDF] was accepted by ESORICS 2020. Congrats to Peiyu!


5/29/2020

Our paper "Temporal Multi-Graph Convolutional Network for Traffic Flow Prediction" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS). Congrats to Mingqi.


5/16/2020

Our paper "AdvMind: Inferring Adversary Intent of Black-Box Attacks" was accepted by KDD 2020. Congrats to Ren.


5/3/2020

Our two papers "Text Captcha Is Dead? A Large Scale Deployment and Empirical Study" and "A Tale of Evil Twins: Adversarial Inputs versus Poisoned Models" were accepted by ACM CCS 2020. Congrats to Chenghui and Ren.


5/1/2020

Our paper "Justinian's GAAvernor: Robust Distributed Learning with Gradient Aggregation Agent" was accepted by USENIX Security 2020.


4/22/2020

Our paper "A Truthful and Near-optimal Mechanism for Colocation Emergency Demand Response" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Congrats to Prof. Chen!


4/14/2020

Our paper "Privacy Risks of General-Purpose Language Models" [PDF] was accepted by IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2020.


3/16/2020

Our paper "AsgLDP: Collecting and Generating Decentralized Attributed Graphs with Local Differential Privacy" [PDF] was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS). Congrats to Chengkun!


2/25/2020

Our paper "TextShield: Robust Text Classification Based on Multimodal Embedding and Neural Machine Translation" was accepted by USENIX Security 2020. Congrats to Jinfeng!


2/24/2020

Our paper "Which is Plagiarism: Fashion Image Retrieval based on Regional Representation for Design Protection" was accepted by CVPR 2020.


2/20/2020

Our paper "HandiText: Handwriting Recognition based on Dynamic Characteristics with Incremental LSTM" was accepted by ACM Transactions on Data Science (TDS).


2/19/2020

Our paper "Security and Privacy of Machine Learning Models: A Survey" (机器学习模型安全与隐私) [PDF] was accepted by Journal of Software 2020.


2/16/2020

Our paper "SirenAttack: Generating Adversarial Audio for End-to-End Acoustic Systems" was accepted by ASIACCS 2020. Congrats to Tianyu!


2/14/2020

Our paper "Attention with Long-term Interval-Based Gated Recurrent Units for Modeling Sequential User Behaviors" was accepted by DASFAA 2020.


12/16/2019

Our paper "De-Health: All Your Online Health Information Are Belong to Us" [PDF] was accepted by ICDE 2020.


12/13/2019

Our paper "OB-WSPES: A Uniform Evaluation System for Obfuscation-based Web Search Privacy" [PDF] was accepted by TDSC. Congrats to Chengkun!


11/13/2019

Dr. Shouling Ji was invited to serve on the TPC for ESORICS 2020.


11/11/2019

Our paper "Fine-Grained Fashion Similarity Learning by Attribute-Specific Embedding Network" was accepted by AAAI 2020. Congrats to Zhe Ma!


10/29/2019

Our paper "Security and Privacy Risks in Artificial Intelligence Systems (人工智能系统安全与隐私风险)" was accepted by Journal of Computer Research and Development. [PDF]


9/14/2019

Our paper "Adversarial Examples Versus Cloud-based Detectors: A Black-box Empirical Study" [PDF] was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Congrats to Xurong and Juntao.


8/16/2019

Our paper "A Survey on Techniques, Applications and Security of Machine Learning Interpretability" [PDF] was accepted by Journal of Computer Research and Development.


7/16/2019

Our paper "GA-Par: Dependable Microservice Orchestration Framework for Geo-Distributed Clouds" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).


6/26/2019

Our paper "Dynamic Group-Oriented Provable Data Possession in the Cloud" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC).


6/18/2019

Our paper "Interpretable Deep Learning under Fire" was accepted by USENIX Security 2020. Congrats to Xinyang and Ting!


6/11/2019

Our paper "Fast-RCM: Fast Tree based Unsupersived Rare Class Mining" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. Congrats to Haiqing!


5/10/2019

Our paper "VulSniper: Focus Your Attention to Shoot Fine-Grained Vulnerabilities" was accepted by IJCAI 2019. Congrats to Xu and Jingzheng!


5/2/2019

Our paper "MOpt: Optimize Mutation Scheduling for Fuzzers" [PDF] was accepted by USENIX Security 2019. Congrats to Chenyang Lyu!


4/29/2019

Our paper "Efficient Global String Kernel with Random Features: Beyond Counting Substructures" was accepted by KDD 2019. Congrats to Lingfei!


3/3/2019

Our paper "TiSSA: A Time Slice Self-Attention Approach for Modeling Sequential User Behaviors" was accepted by WWW 2019.


2/25/2019

Our paper "Dual Dense Encoding for Zero-Example Video Retrieval" was accepted by CVPR 2019. Congrats to Jianfeng!


2/5/2019

Our posters "TextBugger: Generating Adversarial Text Against Real-world Applications" and "SirenAttack: Generating Adversarial Audio for End-to-End Acoustic Systems" were accepted by NDSS 2019 Poster Session. Congrats to Tianyu and Jinfeng!


1/5/2019

Our paper "An I/O Efficient Distributed Approximation Framework Using Cluster Sampling" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). Congrats to Xuhong!


1/4/2019

Our Adversarial CAPTCHA (aCAPTCHA) system was applied and deployed on Alibaba's e-commerce platform. [News 1] [News 2]


12/17/2018

Our paper "CATS: Cross-Platform E-commerce Fraud Detection" was accepted by ICDE 2019. Congrats to Haiqin Weng and Fuzheng Duan!


11/30/2018

Our paper "A Truthful FPTAS Mechanism for Emergency Demand Response in Colocation Data Centers" was accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2019. Congrats to Dr. Chen!


11/17/2018

Our paper "A Privacy-Preserving Online Learning Approach for Incentive-based Demand Response in Smart Grid" was accepted by IEEE Systems Journal (IF=4.337). Congrats!


11/16/2018

Our paper "Video Big Data Retrieval Over Media Cloud: A Context-aware Online Learning Approach" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM). Congrats to Yinan.


11/13/2018

Dr. Shouling Ji was invited to serve on the TPC for ACM CCS 2019.


11/7/2018

Our paper "TextBugger: Generating Adversarial Text Against Real-world Applications" [PDF] was accepted by NDSS 2019. Congrats to Jinfeng and Tianyu!


10/21/2018

Our paper "Integration of Static and Dynamic Code Stylometry Analysis for Programmer De-anonymization" won the Best Paper Award of AISec 2018.


9/27/2018

Our paper "DeepSec: A Uniform Platform for Security Analysis of Deep Learning Models" [PDF] was accepted by IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2019. Congrats to Lingxiang, Jiannan, and Jiaxu!


9/23/2018

Our paper "Attacker Location Evaluation-based Fake Source Scheduling for Source Location Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS). Congrats to Zhen!


8/31/2018

Haiqin Weng was chosen to receive an ACM CCS 2018 Travel Grant. Congrats to Haiqin.


8/13/2018

Our two papers "Integration of Static and Dynamic Code Stylometry Analysis for Programmer De-anonymization" (Best Paper Award) [PDF] and "Towards Evaluating the Security of Image CAPTCHA in the Wild" [PDF] were accepted by AISec 2018. Congrats to Ningfei, Binbin and Haiqin.


7/28/2018

Dr. Shouling Ji was invited to serve on the TPC for IEEE ICC 2019.


7/24/2018

Our paper "Model-Reuse Attacks on Learning Systems" [PDF] was accepted by ACM CCS 2018. Congrats to Yujie!


7/10/2018

Our paper "Pre-Patch: Find Hidden Threats in Open Software based on Machine Learning Method" won the Best Paper Award of SCF 2018.


7/1/2018

Our paper "Adversarial Example Attacks and Defenses of Deep Learning Systems" was accepted by Communications of the CCF.


4/18/2018

Dr. Shouling Ji was invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE MASS 2018.


4/5/2018

Dr. Shouling Ji was elected to the CCF Technical Committee on Blockchian (CCF 区块链专委会委员).


3/10/2018

Dr. Shouling Ji was invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of ACM CCS 2018, SECURECOMM 2018, and ICICS 2018.


2/18/2018

Our paper "T-PriDO: A Tree-based Privacy-Preserving Distributed Online Big Data Processing System" was accepted by IEEE CNS 2018.


2/12/2018

Dr. Shouling Ji was selected into the "National 1000 Young Talents Program".


1/6/2018

Our paper "Online E-Commerce Fraud: A Large-scale Detection and Analysis" was accepted by ICDE 2018. Congrats to Haiqin and Tianyu!


12/7/2017

Our paper "Fingerprinting for Cyber Physical System Security: Device Physics Matters Too" was accepted by IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine.


11/27/2017

Our two papers "Quantifying Graph Anonymity, Utility, and De-anonymity" [PDF] and "CertChain: Public and Efficient Certificate Audit Based on Blockchain for TLS Connections"[PDF] were accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2018.


9/12/2017

Dr. Xuhong Zhang from University of Central Florida (UCF) visited the NESA Lab.


9/11/2017

Our paper "PBUF: Sharing Buffer to Mitigate Flooding Attacks" was accepted by ICPADS 2017 and our paper "Blind De-anonymization Attacks using Social Networks" was accepted by WPES 2017 (in conjunction with ACM CCS 2017).


8/1/2017

Dr. Ting Wang from Lehigh University visited the NESA Lab.


7/29/2017

Our two papers "H2DoS: An Application-Layer DoS Attack towards HTTP/2 Protocol" and "HSTS Measurement and A New Stripping Attack Against HTTPS" were accepted by SECURECOMM 2017. Congrats to Xurong and Xiang.


6/17/2017

Our paper "LaChouTi: Kernel Vulnerability Responding Framework for the Fragmented Android Devices" was accepted by FSE/ESEC 2017. Congrats to Jingzheng!


6/12/2017

Dr. Kangjie Lu from Georgia Tech visited the NESA lab.


5/29/2017

Our paper "De-SAG: On the De-anonymization of Structure-Attribute Graph Data" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC).


5/27/2017

Dr. Shouling Ji was selected for the IEEE INFOCOM 2017 "Best-in-Session-Presentation" Award. The presented paper was "Password Correlation: Quantification, Evaluation and Application".


3/12/2017

Our paper "Private, yet Practical, Multiparty Deep Learning" was accepted by ICDCS 2017. Congrats to Xinyang.


1/14/2017

Our paper “Exception Beyond Exception: Crashing Android System by Trapping in "Uncaught Exception"” was accepted by ICSE 2017. Congrats to Dr. Jingzheng!


1/5/2017

Prof. Ting Wang from Lehigh University visited the NESA Lab.


1/4/2017

Mr. Yue Chen from Florida State University visited the NESA Lab.


12/26/2016

Prof. Zhiyun Qian from UC Riverside visited the NESA Lab.


11/26/2016

Our paper "Graph Data Anonymization, De-anonymization Attacks, and De-anonymizability Quantification: A Survey" was accepted by IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (COMST). (IF = 9.22)


11/26/2016

Our paper "Password Correlation: Quantification, Evaluation and Application" was accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2017.


8/31/2016

Our paper "Towards a Framework to Facilitate the Mobile Advertising Ecosystem" was accepted by ICPADS 2016.


8/16/2016

Our paper "Sapprox: Enabling Efficient and Accurate Approximations on Sub-datasets with Distribution-aware Online Sampling" was accepted by VLDB 2017.


7/22/2016

Our paper "SmartWalk: Enhancing Social Network Security via Adaptive Random Walks" is accepted by ACM CCS 2016.