I am a tenure-track associate professor at School of Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. My main research area is Data Security & Privacy for AI.
I received my Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo(Canada), under the supervision of Prof. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen. Before joining the Fudan University, I was a Research Assistant in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University(Singapore) from 2015 to 2016, and was a PostDoc Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo(Canada) from 2020 to 2023.
We are looking for self-motivated Master/Ph.D. Students, PostDocs, and Interns in the field of Applied Cryptography, Database Security&Privacy, AI Security&Privacy, and LLM Security&Privacy to join our team. Drop me an email if you are interested.
Latest News
- [08/2025] Our paper "PRRQ: Privacy-Preserving Resilient RkNN Query over Encrypted Outsourced Multi-Attribute Data" is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computers (CCF-A, JCR Q1).
- [08/2025] Our paper "Highly-Secure and Efficient Certificateless AKA for Vehicular Access Networks" is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (CCF-B, JCR Q1).
- [08/2025] Our paper "EPPQ: Efficient and Privacy-Preserving kNN Query for Outsourced High-Dimensional Data" is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (CCF-A, JCR Q1).
- [07/2025] Our paper "MKAC: Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Multi-Keyword Ranked Query with Ciphertext Access Control in Cloud Environments" is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (JCR Q1).
- [06/2025] Our paper "Enabling Efficient and Privacy-preserving Sequence Similarity Query on Encrypted Genomes" is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (CCF-A, JCR Q1).
- [03/2025] I serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (CCF-A, JCR Q1).
- [01/2025] Our two papers are accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal (JCR Q1).
Research Interests
- Privacy Preservation
- Confidential Computing with TEE and Its Applications
- Private Information Retrieval & Database Privacy
- Privacy-Preserving Training and Inference for AI
- AI Security
- AI for Applied Cryptography
- AI Agent and RAG Security
- Datasets Copyright Protection
- Data Poisoning & Backdoor Attacks
- Machine Unlearning
Teaching
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Undergraduate Course
- Algorithm Design and Analysis, Undergraduate Course
Supervised Students
- Shouhong Tan (Ph.D. Student, 2024 - Now)
- Tianxin Chen (Ph.D. Student, 2024 - Now)
- Jiatong Mi (Master Student, 2024 - Now)
- Jiayi Wen (Master Student, 2024 - Now)
- Hengfeng Pan (Master Student, 2024 - Now)
- Zihan Liu (Master Student, 2024 - Now)
Research Funding
- Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Overseas), Funded by NSFC (2025 - Now)
- Young Science Fund, Funded by NSFC (2025 - Now)
- Open Project Fund, Funded by ISN National Key Laboratory (2025 - Now)
- Start-Up Fund, Funded by Fudan University (2024 - Now)
Awards and Honors
- Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (PostDoc), 2023
- Shanghai High-Level Overseas Young Talents Program, 2023
- IEEE ICCC 2023 Best Paper Award
- IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 Best Paper Award
- IEEE ICC 2018 Best Paper Award
- IEEE ICCC 2015 Best Paper Award
Professional Activities
- Journal Editor
- Associate Editor, IEEE TDSC (2025 - Now)
- Associate Editor, IEEE IoTJ (2024 - Now)
- Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Information Security (2024 - Now)
- Associate Editor, IEEE Access - Vehicular Technology Section (2024 - Now)
- Associate Editor, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications(Springer) (2022 - Now)
- Guest Editor, Electronics(MDPI) (2024 - Now)
- Guest Editor, Mathematics(MDPI) (2024 - Now)
- Guest Editor, Security and Safety(S&S) (2023 - 2024)
- Conference Organizer
- CIS Track Co-Chair, IEEE ICCT 2025
- Local Organizing Co-Chair, IEEE ICCC 2025
- CISS Symposium Co-Chair, IEEE GLOBECOM 2024
- Publicity Co-Chair, PST 2023
- Publicity Co-Chair, SustainCom 2023
- Publicity Co-Chair, ICA3PP 2022