News
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.