About me

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. My research area is network security and privacy. I am particularly interested in the topics related to wireless security, CPS and IoT security, and machine learning security and privacy.

Education

• B.S. in Communications Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2015-2019
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2019-now

News

• Our paper ‘ProFLingo: A Fingerprinting-based Intellectual Property Protection Scheme for Large Language Models’, was accepted by the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security 2024 (CNS 2024). (Aug. 2024)
• Our paper ‘Hermes: Boosting the Performance of Machine-Learning-Based Intrusion Detection System through Geometric Feature Learning’, was accepted by the 25th International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (MobiHoc 2024). (Aug. 2024)
• Our paper ‘Pri-Share: Enabling Inter-SAS Privacy Protection via Secure Multi-Party Spectrum Allocation,’ was accepted by the IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks 2024 (DySPAN 2024). (Feb. 2024)
• Our paper ‘TriSAS: Toward Dependable Inter-SAS Coordination with Auditability,’ was accepted by the ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2024). (Nov. 2023)
• Our paper ‘MINDFL: Mitigating the Impact of Imbalanced and Noisy-labeled Data in Federated Learning with Quality and Fairness-Aware Client Selection’ was accepted by the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2023). (Aug. 2023)
• Our paper ‘Bijack: Breaking Bitcoin Network with TCP Vulnerabilities’ was accepted by the 28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2023). (Aug. 2023)
• Our paper ‘BD-SAS: Enabling Dynamic Spectrum Sharing in Low-trust Environment’ was accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. (April. 2023)
• Our paper ‘MS-PTP: Protecting Network Timing from Byzantine Attacks’ was accepted by the 16th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec 2023). (March. 2023)
• Our paper ‘Decentralized spectrum access system: Vision, challenges, and a blockchain solution’ was accepted by IEEE Wireless Communications. (March. 2022)
• Our paper ‘Challenges and new directions in securing spectrum access systems’ was accepted by the IEEE Internet of Things Journal. (April. 2021)
• Our paper ‘Session key distribution made practical for CAN and CAN-FD message authentication’ was accepted by the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2020). (Dec. 2020)