Publications

2026

Shanghao Shi, Xiao Wang, Chaoyu Zhang, Hao Li, Wenjing Lou, Thomas Hou, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Chongjie Zhang, and Ning Zhang. “Think Twice Before You Act: Protecting LLM Agents Against Tool Description Poisoning via Isolated Planning”. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.
Hexuan Yu, Chaoyu Zhang, Heng Jin, Shanghao Shi, Ning Zhang, Thomas Hou, and Wenjing Lou. “MINIM: Privacy-Aware Minimal View for Agents via Trusted Local Sanitization”. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.
Peichun Hua, Hao Li, Shanghao Shi, Zhiyuan Yu, and Ning Zhang. “Rethinking Jailbreak Detection of Large Vision Language Models with Representational Contrastive Scoring”. Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026.

Zhengyuan Jiang, Xingyu Lyu, Shanghao Shi, Yang Xiao, Yimin Chen, Thomas Hou, Wenjing Lou and Ning Wang. “BoBa: Boosting Backdoor Detection through Data Distribution Inference in Federated Learning”. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2025. [PDF]
Shanghao Shi, Md Shahedul Haque, Abhijeet Parida, Chaoyu Zhang, Marius Linguraru, Y. Thomas Hou, Syed Anwar, and Wenjing Lou. “MedLeak: Multimodal Medical Data Leakage in Secure Federated Learning with Crafted Models”. IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems, and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), 2025. [PDF]
Ning Wang, Shanghao Shi, Yimin Chen, Wenjing Lou and Y. Thomas Hou, “FeCo: Boosting Intrusion Detection Capability in IoT Networks via Contrastive Learning”. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2025. [PDF]
Chaoyu Zhang, Hexuan Yu, Shanghao Shi, Shaoyu Li, Yi Shi, Eric Burger, Y. Thomas Hou, Wenjing Lou. “StarCast: Securing Multicast Communications in LEO Satellite Networks,” IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), 2025. [PDF]
Shanghao Shi, Ning Wang, Yang Xiao, Chaoyu Zhang, Yi Shi, Y. Thomas Hou, and Wenjing Lou. “Scale-MIA: A Scalable Model Inversion Attack against Secure Federated Learning via Latent Space Reconstruction”. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2025. [PDF]

Chaoyu Zhang, Shanghao Shi, Ning Wang, Xiangxiang Xu, Shaoyu Li, Lizhong Zheng, Randy Marchany, Mark Gardner, Y. Thomas Hou, Wenjing Lou. “Hermes: Boosting the Performance of Machine-Learning-Based Intrusion Detection System through Geometric Feature Learning”. International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (MobiHoc), 2024. [PDF]
Heng Jin, Chaoyu Zhang, Shanghao Shi, Wenjing Lou, and Y. Thomas Hou. “ProFLingo: A Fingerprinting-based Intellectual Property Protection Scheme for Large Language Models”. IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2024. [PDF] (Distinguished Paper Award)
Hexuan Yu, Shanghao Shi, Yi Shi, Eric Burger, Y. Thomas Hou, and Wenjing Lou. “Pri-Share: Enabling Inter-SAS Privacy Protection via Secure Multi-Party Spectrum Allocation.” IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), 2024. [PDF]
Shanghao Shi, Yang Xiao, Changlai Du, Yi Shi, Chonggang Wang, Robert Gazda, Y. Thomas Hou, Eric Burger, Luiz DaSilva, and Wenjing Lou. 2024. “TriSAS: Toward Dependable Inter-SAS Coordination with Auditability.” ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2024. [PDF]

Chaoyu Zhang, Ning Wang, Shanghao Shi, Changlai Du, Wenjing Lou, and Y. Thomas Hou. “MINDFL: Mitigating the Impact of Imbalanced and Noisy-labeled Data in Federated Learning with Quality and Fairness-Aware Client Selection.” IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2023. [PDF]
Shaoyu Li, Shanghao Shi, Yang Xiao, Chaoyu Zhang, Y. Thomas Hou, and Wenjing Lou. “Bijack: Breaking Bitcoin Network with TCP Vulnerabilities.” European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2023. [PDF]
Yang Xiao, Shanghao Shi, Wenjing Lou, Chonggang Wang, Xu Li, Ning Zhang, Y. Thomas Hou, and Jeffrey H. Reed. “BD-SAS: Enabling Dynamic Spectrum Sharing in Low-trust Environment.” IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN), 2023. [PDF]
Shanghao Shi, Yang Xiao, Changlai Du, Md Hasan Shahriar, Ao Li, Ning Zhang, Y. Thomas Hou, and Wenjing Lou. 2023. MS-PTP: Protecting Network Timing from Byzantine Attacks. ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2023. [PDF]

Yang Xiao, Shanghao Shi, Wenjing Lou, Chonggang Wang, Xu Li, Ning Zhang, Y. Thomas Hou, and Jeffrey H. Reed. “Decentralized spectrum access system: Vision, challenges, and a blockchain solution.” IEEE Wireless Communications (WCM), 2022. [PDF]
Shanghao Shi, Yang Xiao, Wenjing Lou, Chonggang Wang, Xu Li, Y. Thomas Hou, and Jeffrey H. Reed. “Challenges and new directions in securing spectrum access systems.” IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), 2021. [PDF]
Yang Xiao, Shanghao Shi, Ning Zhang, Wenjing Lou, and Y. Thomas Hou. “Session key distribution made practical for CAN and CAN-FD message authentication.” Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2020. [PDF]