- I am supervising and have supervised 23 PhD students, 14 of them have got PhD degrees (4 supervised students got associate professor positions and two have tenured, 4 got assistant professor positions);
- I am supervising and have supervised 81 master theses (54 graduates) and 55 bachelor theses (49 graduates) (2011 - date), most of students got job offers after graduation from universities, including big Internet companies (BAT), national banks, Telecom companies, institutes, etc.
- I co-supervised or advised more than 10 PhD and master students;
- Three PhD dissertation achieved IEEE TC Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award; one PhD dissertation was nominated as the best Ph.D. dissertation of Chinese Electronics Education Association;
- 18 of my postgraduate or PhD students achieved national level scholarships or awards, 13 PhD students got CSC Chinese government scholarships to visit universities abroad, 2 got the best bachelor thesis award.
Table 1: Supervised PhD Students (in total 23)
Name | University | Status of Thesis | Thesis Title |
Mingjun Wang | Xidian University, China | Completed (12.2017) | Security and Privacy Preservation in Device-to-Device Communications (pass with distinction) |
Wenxiu Ding | Xidian University, China | Completed (12.2017) | Secure Computations and Deduplication Management over Encrypted Data in Cloud Computing (pass with distinction) |
Wei Feng | Xidian University, China | Completed (05.2020) | Anonymous Authenticatoin on Trust in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (pass with distinction) |
Yafeng Wang | Xidian University, China | Partially Completed (10.2021) | Crowdsensing Privacy Preservation |
Xueqin Liang (Dual degree) | Aalto University | Completed (12.2020) | Game Theoretic Analysis on Encrypted Data Deduplication in Cloud (IEEE TCSC Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award) |
Xuyang Jing | Xidian University, China | Completed (12.2020) | Security Data Compression and Fusion for Efficient Network Security Analysis (pass with distinction) |
Yaxing Chen | Xi’an Jiaotong University, China | Completed (05.2021) | Research on Augmented Trust in SGX-enabled Cloud Applications |
Xueqin Liang (Dual degree) | Xidian University, China | Completed (12.2021) | Incentive Mechanism Study on Secure and Efficient Crowdsourcing and Cloud Storage Deduplication Systems (pass with distinction) |
Pu Wang | Xidian University, China | Completed (12.2021) | Research on Physical Layer Security and Optimization for Backscatter Communications (pass with distinction) |
Xixun Yu | Xidian University, China | Completed (12.2021) | Verifiable Mechanisms in Cloud Data Services (pass with distinction) |
Gao Liu | Xidian University, China | Completed (05.2022) | Decentralized Network Trust Management |
Haomeng Xie | Xidian University, China | Completed (12.2023) | Privacy Preservation and Trust Authentication in Blockchain Systems |
Rui Zhang | Xidian University, China | Completed (12.2023) | Privacy-preserving and Secure Voiceprint Authentication |
Lijun Gao | Xidian University, China | Planned defense in 12.2024 (50% done) | Adversarial Learning for PDF Malware Detection |
Jialei Zhang | Xidian University, China | Planned defense in 12.2024 (70% done) | Intelligent and Customized Routing in Integrated HetNets with Privacy Preservation |
Shufan Fei | Xidian University, China | Planned defense in 12.2025 (50% done) | Decentralized Management for Trustworthy Networking |
Jie Wang | Xidian University, China | Planned defense in 12.2025 (50% done) | Intelligent Trust Evaluation |
Yishan Yang | Xidian University, China | Planned defense in 12.2026 (30% done) | Batch Authentication in Backscattered Communications |
Panpan Han | Xidian University, China | Planned defense in 12.2026 (30% done) | Privacy Preservation in Complex Cross-Chain Systems |
Hongke Zhang | Xidian University, China | Planned defense in 12.2026 (30% done) | N.A. |
Jiahe Lan | Xidian University, China | Planned defense in 12.2027 (40% done) | N.A. |
Haoxiang Han | Xidian University, China | Planned defense in 12.2027 (20% done) | N.A. |
Yijia Liu | Xidian University, China | Planned defense in 12.2028 (10% done) | N.A. |
Chaoming Shi | Xidian University, China | Planned defense in 12.2028 (10% done) | N.A. |
| Qixian Ren | Xidian University, China | N.A |
Table 2: Advised or Co-supervised PhD Students (in total 10)
Name | University | Status | Thesis Topic |
Xueqin Liang (Dual degree) | Aalto University, Finland | Completed (12.2020) | Game Theoretic Analysis on Encrypted Data Deduplication in Cloud |
Shushu Liu | Aalto University, Finland | Under pre-examination, planned defense in 12.2022 | Securing 5G Positioning and its Services with Privacy Preservation |
Monshizadeh Mehrnoosh | Aalto University, Finland | Under pre-examination, planned defense in 01.2023 | Machine Learning Techniques to Detect Known and Novel Cyber-attacks |
Lifang Zhang | Aalto University, Finland | (75% done) | Privacy-preserving Unwanted Traffic Control |
Yifan Zhang | Aalto University, Finland | Planned defense in 12.2026 (5% done) | Noise Management for Securing Backscatter Communications |
Ping Wang | Xidian University, China | Planned defense in 12.2022 (95% done) | Research on Adversarial Attack and Defense Approaches of CAPTCHA |
Yurong Luo | Xi’an Jiaotong University | Planned defense in 2023 (85% done) | Blockchain Based Data Security Management in IoT |
Xi Xu | Xi’an Jiaotong University | Planned defense in 12.2023 (75% done) | Binary Reuse Detection and Batch Presence Test |
Zhe Guo | HUST | Completed (12.2011) | Group Mobility and Communication Pattern Study of Mobile Users |
Junze Wang | HUST | Completed (06.2010) | Review Spam Study based on Semantic Relevance |
Table 3: Supervised Master Students in Xidian University (in total 81)
Name | Date of Graduation | Thesis Title |
Liang Chen | April 2014 | Implementation of an SMS Spam Control System Based on Trust Management (pass with distinction) |
Gaowa Shi | April 2014 | Performance Evaluation of PSN Unwanted Content Control System via Trust management |
Hanling Chen | January 2015 | A Fashionable Technology of Pervasive Social Networking Based on Mobile Device |
Wei Tang | January 2015 | CloudRec: A Mobile Cloud Service Recommender System Based on Adaptive QoS Management |
Yulu Wang | January 2015 | Validation on a Research Model of Human-Computer Trust Interaction |
Sixuan Ma | January 2015 | Implementation of an Unwanted Content Control System in Pervasive Social Networking Based on Trust Management (pass with distinction) |
Tianli Dang | January 2015 | The implementation and Evaluation of a Trust-Behavior Based Reputation System for Mobile Application |
Ning Li | January 2016 | Securing Communication Data in Pervasive Social Networking Based on Trust with KP-ABE |
Yutan Ma | January 2016 | Implementation of unwanted Traffic Control System Based on Trust Management Using SDN |
Lijun Gao | January 2016 | Game Theoretical Analysis on the Acceptance of a Cloud Data Access Control System Based on Reputation (pass with distinction) |
Fei Tong | January 2016 | Android Application Detection |
Chaoyin Huang | January 2016 | Secure Pervasive Social Communications Based on Distributed Trust Evaluation |
Jiazhen Zhou | 2017 uncompleted | Secure Wearable Device Communications |
Wangyang Shi | March 2016 | CloudFile: A Cloud Data Access Control System Based on Mobile Social Trust |
Shanshan Bian | June 2017 | A Trust Management Framework of SDN Application |
Yanxiao Cheng | June 2017 | PermitRec: A Permission Configuration Recommender System for Mobile Apps Based on Trust Management |
Yuquan Zhu | June 2017 | Adaptive Trust Management in NFV |
Guangwu Xu | June 2017 | A Trust Insurance Mechanism for Virtualized Network Functions Based on Trusted Computing |
Sihui Zhao | June 2017 | Implementation and Verification of Identity Authentication System Based on Individual Voiceprint Challenge System |
Fengyu Tian | June 2018 | Trusted Cooperative Platform among Virtual Base Stations in C-RAN Architecture (pass with distinction) |
Chenzi Wu | June 2018 | AnonyAuth: The Demo of an Trustworthy Anonymous Authentication System Based on PSN and its Performance Evaluation |
Ping Yan | June 2018 | Privacy-Preserving Mobile Malware Detection in the Cloud |
Hanlu Chen | June 2018 | Security Related Data Collection and Composition in LTE Network |
Zhen Yao | June 2018 | A Trust management Framework for SDN Application Based on Trusted Data Collectinon |
Kun Xu | June 2018 | Research on Privacy Protection in Mobile Application Recommender System (pass with distinction) |
Limei He | June 2019 | Anonymous Trust Authentication System for Pervasive Social Networking |
Guoquan Li | June 2019 | Network Security Metric Based on Index System |
Huaqing Lin | June 2019 | Research on Application-layer Tunnels Detection Technology (pass with distinction) |
Donghao Zhou | June 2019 | An Adaptive Network Data Collection System in Software-Defined-Network |
Dan Liu | June 2020 | Research on Multi-party Access Control Mechanism in Multi-level Data processing with SGX (pass with distinction) |
Rui Hu | June 2020 | Research on Privacy-Preserving Division and Vector Dot Product Computation |
Muhammad Jehanzaib Yousuf | June 2020 | Trusted Network Slicing Among Multiple Mobile Network Operators |
Tong Meng | June 2020 | DDoS Intrusion Detection Based on Machine Learning and Reversible Sketch |
Yilin Li | June 2020 | Truth Detection and Attack Tracing in 5G Positioning |
Xuetao Yang | June 2020 | Automatic Data Transmission Control in |
Jingwen Wang | June 2020 | Privacy-preserving Malware Detection System Based on Reputation Evaluation |
Li Peng | June 2021 | Research on Secure Data Deduplication with Dynamic Auditing |
Wentao Wei | June 2021 | Privacy-Preserving Malware Detection Based on SGX |
Xuerui Wang | June 2021 | A Voiceprint Authentication System with Liveness Detection |
Dongsheng Zhao | June 2021 | Handover Authentication in 5G Heterogeneous Network |
Jingjing Zhao | June 2021 | Efficient Traffic Classification Based on Network Traffic Granule (pass with distinction) |
Wei Sun | June 2021 | A Software Side Channel Vulnerability Detection Method Based on Similarity Calculation and Machine Learning |
Wenming Zhang | June 2021 | Abnormal Network Traffic Detection Based on Deep Metric Learning |
Xinren Qian | June 2021 | Privacy Protection in 5G Positioning and Location-based Services Based on SGX |
Xiang Li | June 2022 | Node Attribute Privacy Preservation in Decentralized Crowdsourcing |
Hui Han | June 2022 | Super Host Identification and Network Host Trust Evaluation Based on Memory Efficient Sketch |
Li Wang | June 2022 | A Secure and Anonymous Scheme to Access Core Network Based on Multi-UAV Relay |
Huidong Dong | June 2022 | Inter-domain Trustworthy and Personalized Routing Based on Crowdsourcing |
Rong Han | June 2022 | Game Theoretic Analysis on Decentralized Mobile Crowdsourcing Incentive |
Hao Weng | June 2022 | Intrusion Detection and Node Trust Evaluation Based on Stacked Ensemble and Deep learning |
Hui Bai | June 2022 | Verification on Outsourced Intelligent Routing to a Cloud |
Fei Wu | June 2023 | An Effective Truth Discovery Method Based on Prior Constraints Fuzzy Clustering for Streaming Data |
Kangde Liu | June 2023 | An Efficient Local Model Truth Discovery Scheme in Blockchain-enabled Federated Learning |
Guocang Liu | June 2023 | Implementation of Anonymous Authentication on Trust in |
Xiaoxuan Xie | June 2023 | Secure and Personalized Routing Algorithm and Simulation Implementation for Heterogeneous Networks |
Xinmeng Liu | Planned in June 2024 | N.A. |
Ruoyu Yin | Planned in June 2024 | N.A. |
Rui Ma | Planned in June 2024 | N.A. |
Haonan Yuan | Planned in June 2024 | N.A. |
Mubeen Ashraf | Planned in June 2024 | N.A. |
Chenhao Zhang | Planned in June 2025 | N.A. |
Jingdong Chang | Planned in June 2025 | N.A. |
Xiaoyan Wei | Planned in June 2025 | N.A. |
Jiajun Li | Planned in June 2025 | N.A. |
Baochen Yan | Planned in June 2025 | N.A. |
Qinghua Cao | Planned in June 2025 | N.A. |
Longxin Li | Planned in June 2025 | N.A. |
Xuyan Li | Planned in June 2025 | N.A. |
Zitong Zhang | Planned in June 2026 | N.A. |
Zhaozheng Li | Planned in June 2026 | N.A. |
Essodokinam LAMATETOU | Planned in June 2026 | N.A. |
Haoxin He | Planned in June 2026 | N.A. |
Tingxi Luo | Planned in June 2026 | N.A. |
Guoliang Zhou | Planned in June 2026 | N.A. |
Lanzhen Shao | Planned in June 2027 | N.A. |
Shuo Ma | Planned in June 2027 | N.A. |
Yuhang Ma | Planned in June 2027 | N.A. |
Yuxuan Lei | Planned in June 2027 | N.A. |
Yifan Li | Planned in June 2027 | N.A. |
Yaxin Tang | Planned in June 2027 | N.A. |
Niya Luo | Planned in June 2027 | N.A. |
Table 4: Advised Master Students in Aalto University (in total 4)
Name | Date of Graduation | Thesis Title |
Yu Chen | June 2010 | A Privacy-enhanced Reputation System for Mobile Ad hoc Services (pass with distinction) |
Yue Shen | December 2012 | An Evaluation Platform on Trust Management for Unwanted Traffic Control (pass with distinction) |
Xueyun Li | April 2015 | Performance Evaluation on Three Data Access Control Schemes in Cloud Computing (pass with distinction) |
Lifang Zhang | May 2016 | Privacy-Preserving Trust Management for Unwanted Traffic Control (pass with distinction) |
Table 5: Supervised Post-doc Researchers (in total 5)
Name | Duration | Research Topic |
Yulong Fu | 07.2016 –06.2018 | Network Security-related Data Collection and Composition |
Wenxiu Ding | 01.2018 –09.2019 | Homomorphic Re-encryption and its Applications |
Mingjun Wang | 01.2018 – 03.2021 | 6G Trustworthy Networking |
Masoud Kaveh (Sponsored and advised by me) | 05.2022 – Date | Performance Evaluation on Three Data Access Control Schemes in Cloud Computing |
Zhe Guo | 01.2013 –12.2013 | Routing in LEO Satellite Network |
Junze Wang | 01.2011 –12.2011 | Message Receiver Determination in IM Conversations |
Table 6: Supervised Bachelor Theses (Selected, in total 51+4)
Name | Date of Graduation | Thesis Title |
Yanxiao Cheng | June 2014 | Design and Implementation of a Mobile App Security Configuration Recommendation System |
Wei Feng | June 2014 | Privacy Preservation in Pervasive Social Networking (pass with distinction) |
Pu Wang | June 2014 | Anonymous Trust Authentication in MANET |
Sihui Zhao | June 2014 | A Text-Voice Conversion System Based on Android |
Yanlan Lin | June 2015 | Reputation Generation based on Feedback Opinions |
Yuxiang Li | June 2015 | Implementation of Cloud Data Deduplication Based on ABE |
Xixun Yu | June 2015 | Verifiable Cloud Computing (pass with distinction) |
Haiqi Zhu | June 2015 | Implementation of Cloud Data Deduplication Based on Proxy-based Re-enquiption |
Aijun Yang | June 2016 | An Anonymous Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol in D2D Communications |
Qun Yang | June 2016 | Anonymous Authentication on Trust in Pervasive Social Networking |
Haomeng Xie | June 2016 | Trustworthy Batch Anonymous Authentication in Pervasive Social Networking (pass with distinction) |
Cheng Ji | June 2016 | A D2D Anonymous Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol Based on Identity Signature |
Li Wen | June 2017 | Secure Encryption Cloud Data Deduplication Management |
Tong Meng | June 2017 | Design and Implementation of Network Security Parameter Collection (pass with distinction) |
Rui Hu | June 2017 | Verifiable Oursourced Secure Data Computation |
Yihao Yuan | June 2017 | Implementation and Evaluation on a D2D Secure Communication Protocol with Privacy Preservation |
Li Peng | June 2018 | Design and Implementation of a Context-aware Communication Security and Data Access Control Scheme in Pervasive Social Networking |
Jingjing Zhao | June 2018 | DDoS Attack Detection Based on Sketch |
Xuerui Wang | June 2018 | Implementation of a Voiceprint User Authentication with Liveness Detection System |
Xinren Qian | June 2018 | Computing Maximum and Minimum with Privacy Preservation and Flexible Access Control |
Jiandong Liu | June 2018 | Privacy-preserving Machine Learning - Logistic Regression |
Huidong Dong | June 2019 | An Incentive Mechanism for Security-Related Data Collection based on Micro-Payment in DSR Routing |
Xiang Li | June 2019 | Implementation of Privacy-Preserving Data Processing Based on Blockchain |
Hui Bai | June 2019 | Verifiable Computation on Cloud Data Deduplication |
Jie Wang | June 2020 | A Fuzzy C-means Clustering Algorithm with Proximity-based Constraint (pass with distinction) |
Yifan Yang | June 2020 | Security and Privacy Preservation in Voiceprint Authentication System |
Anqihui Wang | June 2020 | SGX Side Channel Attack in SQL Data Query |
Pucheng Lei | June 2020 | Blockchain Based Routing in Heterogeneous Network |
Zihao Zhao | June 2020 | Network Intrusion Detection Based on Deep Distance Learning |
Xinjie Zhu | June 2020 | Secure Bitcoin Transaction |
Yuntao Zhang | June 2021 | Implementation of Security and Privacy Protection in Voiceprint Authentication System |
Xinmeng Liu | June 2021 | Trusted Anonymous Updating Based on Blockchain in Large-scale Heterogeneous Networks |
Yiwen Wang | June 2021 | SGX-enabled Decentralized Intrusion Detection and Network Trust Evaluation (pass with distinction) |
Huiquan Liang | June 2021 | SGX-Based Anonymous Authentication on Trust for Decentralized MCS |
Kunyang Du | June 2021 | Physical Layer Enhanced Authentication Based on Positioning in Backscatter Communication |
Zeyu Yang | June 2022 | Cross-Blockchain Digital Currency Anonymous Transactions |
Baochen Yan | June 2022 | Efficient and Privacy-preserving Voiceprint User Authentication Based on Sketch (pass with distinction) |
Jiajun Li | June 2022 | Physical Layer Session Key Generation and Security Analysis in Backscatter Communications (pass with distinction) |
Hesong Wang | June 2023 | Customised Trustworthy Routing in Integrated Heterogeneous Networks |
Xinyu Li | June 2023 | Backdoor Attack on Voiceprint User Authentication |
Chao Tang | June 2023 | Adversarial Link Detection in Graphic Neural Networks |
Dongliang Wang | June 2023 | Implementation of Decentralized 5G VNF Management and Service System |
Zixi Feng | June 2023 | Adversarial Learning for Malicious PDF Detection |
Zhaozheng Li | June 2023 | Backdoor Attack on Voiceprint Authentication |
Zitong Zhang | June 2023 | Efficient Decentralized Trust Evaluation and Consensus |
Yifan Li | June 2024 | Vulnerable Software Package Detection |
Yuxuan Lei | June 2024 | Privacy-preserving Cross-chain Transaction |
Niya Luo | June 2024 | Large-scale Backscatter Device Grouping Optimization |
Yujuan Cao | June 2024 | Backdoor Attack on Speech Recognition Systems |
Jiaqi Zhang | June 2024 | A GNN-based Trust Evaluation Model for Heterogenous Social Networks |
Bowen Bao | June 2024 | Adversarial Attack on ChatGPT |
Note: the records before 2014 are lost.
- Two supervised PhD dissertations achieved IEEE TCSC Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award (Xueqin Liang, Pu Wang); One achieved IEEE HITC Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award (Xuyang Jing);
- 2 PhD dissertations were nominated as the best Ph.D. dissertations of Chinese Society of Electronic Education (Xuyang Jing);
- 1 PhD dissertation was nominated as the best Ph.D. dissertation of Chinese Telecommunication Association (Pu Wang);
- 3 PhD dissertation achieved the best Ph.D. dissertation of Xidian University (Xuyang Jing, Pu Wang, Xueqin Liang);
- 1 PhD dissertation was nominated as the best Ph.D. dissertation of Xidian University (Xueqin Liang);
- 13 of my PhD and master students achieved national scholarships (Wenxiu Ding, Fengyu Tian, Ping Yan, Haomeng Xie, Xuyang Jing, Guoquan Li, Huaqing Lin, Dan Liu, Li Peng, Kangde Liu, Jiajun Li 2 times, Jiahe Lan);
- 4 PhD students achieved National Network Security awards (Mingjun Wang, Wenxiu Ding, Xuyang Jing, Xueqin Liang);
- 15 PhD students got CSC Chinese government scholarships to visit universities abroad (Mingjun Wang, Xixun Yu, Xuyang Jing, Gao Liu, Pu Wang, Xueqin Liang, Haomeng Xie, Rui Zhang, Lijun Gao, Jialei Zhang, Shufan Fei, Jie Wang, Yishan Yang, Jiahe Lan, Yijia Liu);
- Two students got the best graduate awards, two got the best bachelor thesis awards, four times of best paper awards in international journal and conferences.
- Most of my supervised master and bachelor students got job offers from big Internet companies, national banks, telecom companies, research institutes, etc.