 | Dr. Zhen Ling |  |
Young Chair Professor of Southeast University Office: 210, Computer Building, Jiulonghu Campus | ||
Bio
Dr. Zhen Ling is a professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Southeast University. He finished his PhD in computer science at the Southeast University, China under the supervision of Prof. Junzhou Luo in 2014. He was a research associate in the Department of Computer Science from Aug. 2008 to Nov. 2009 at the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, honored to be working with Prof. Xinwen Fu and Prof. Weijia Jia. After that, he joined Department of Computer Science as a visiting PhD research student from Aug. 2011 to Aug. 2013 at the University of Victoria, B.C., Canada, where he worked with Prof. Xinwen Fu and Prof. Kui Wu.
Prof. Ling is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, and the Southeast University Young Chair Professorship. He was awarded the China Computer Federation (CCF) Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2015, as well as the ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award and the ACM Nanjing Chapter Excellent PhD Award in 2014. He received the Award of Excellence at GeekPwn in both 2016 and 2020, the Best Application Paper Award at IEEE CSCWD 2017, and the Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE ICDCS 2024. He was also honored as a Distinguished Member of the INFOCOM Technical Program Committee in 2022 and 2023. Prof. Ling has been actively involved in numerous national, provincial, and ministerial-level research projects. His research has been published in prestigious conferences such as the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), USENIX Security Symposium (Security), Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), and IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM). His work also appears in leading journals, including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP). Notably, his research has been presented at Black Hat and featured on China's State Science and Education Channel (CCTV 10).
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence of Things, Mobile System Security, Network Security and Privacy, and Confidential Computing
Latest News
Our paper titled 'The Cost of Performance: Breaking ThreadX with Kernel Object Masquerading Attacks' has been accepted by USENIX Security 2025, December, 2024. NEW!
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on USENIX Security 2025 TPC, August, 2025. NEW!
Our paper titled 'Collapse Like A House of Cards: Hacking Building Automation System Through Fuzzing' has been accepted by ACM CCS 2024, August, 2024. NEW!
Our ICDCS 2024 paper won Distinguished Paper Award, July, 2024. NEW!
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on IEEE INFOCOM 2025 TPC, May, 2024. NEW!
Our paper titled 'CORE: Transaction Commit-Controlled Release of Private Data over Blockchains' has been accepted by ICDCS 2024, April, 2024. NEW!
Our paper titled 'RIoTFuzzer: Companion App Assisted Remote Fuzzing for Detecting Vulnerabilities in IoT Devices' has been accepted by ACM CCS 2024, April, 2024. NEW!
Our paper titled 'Relation Mining Under Local Differential Privacy' has been accepted by USENIX Security 2024, January, 2024. NEW!
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on USENIX Security 2024 TPC, January, 2024. NEW!
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on ICDCS 2024 TPC, January, 2024. NEW!
Our paper titled 'A Friend's Eye is A Good Mirror: Synthesizing MCU Peripheral Models from Peripheral Drivers' has been accepted by USENIX Security 2024, January, 2024. NEW!
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on ACM CCS 2024 TPC, January, 2024. NEW!
Our paper titled 'WFGuard: An Effective Fuzz-Testing-Based Traffic Morphing Defense Against Website Fingerprinting' has been accepted by INFOCOM 2024, December, 2023.
Our paper titled 'SAMBA: Detecting SSL/TLS API Misuses in IoT Binary Applications' has been accepted by INFOCOM 2024, December, 2023.
Our paper titled 'mmEar: Push the Limit of COTS mmWave Eavesdropping on Headphones' has been accepted by INFOCOM 2024, December, 2023.
Our paper titled 'A De-anonymization Attack Against Downloaders in Freenet' has been accepted by INFOCOM 2024, December, 2023.
Congratulations to our undergraduate student team (Zhunyu Zhang, Han Zhang, Luobing Wang, Zixian Jiang) for winning the fist prize of the 16th National College Student Information Security Contest, August, 2023.
Our paper titled 'LDR: Secure and Efficient Linux Driver Runtime for Embedded TEE Systems' has been accepted by NDSS 2024, August, 2023.
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on IEEE MSN 2023 TPC Chair, May, 2023.
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on IEEE INFOCOM 2024 TPC, April, 2023.
Dr. Zhen Ling was awarded the distinction of Distinguished Member of the 2023 IEEE INFOCOM Technical Program Committee, April, 2023.
Our paper titled 'A Comprehensive and Long-term Evaluation of Tor V3 Onion Services' has been accepted by INFOCOM 2023, December, 2022.
Our paper titled 'Do Not Give a Dog Bread Every Time He Wags His Tail: Stealing Passwords through Content Queries (CONQUER) Attacks' has been accepted by NDSS 2023, October, 2022.
Our paper titled 'fASLR: Function-Based ASLR for Resource-Constrained IoT Systems' has been accepted by ESORICS 2022, May, 2022.
Our paper titled 'Implication of Animation on Android Security' has been accepted by IEEE ICDCS 2022, April, 2022.
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on INFOCOM 2023 TPC, April, 2022.
Dr. Zhen Ling was awarded the distinction of Distinguished Member of the 2022 IEEE INFOCOM Technical Program Committee, February, 2022.
Our paper titled 'Towards an Efficient Defense against Deep Learning based Website Fingerprinting' has been accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2022, December, 2021.
Our paper titled 'Large-scale Evaluation of Malicious Tor Hidden Service Directory Discovery' has been accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2022, December, 2021.
Our paper titled 'Real-Time Execution of Trigger-Action Connection for Home Internet-of-Things' has been accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2022, December, 2021.
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on IEEE INFOCOM 2022 TPC, April, 2021.
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve as an Associate Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J) for a two-year term, January, 2021.
Our paper titled 'Prison Break of Android Reflection Restriction and Defense' has been accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2021, December, 2020.
Our team, Phoenix Decoder (凤凰解码), won award of excellence at GeekPwn, October, 2020.
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on IEEE INFOCOM 2021 TPC, June, 2020.
Our paper titled 'Novel and Practical SDN-based Traceback Technique for Malicious Traffic over Anonymous Networks' has been accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2019, November, 2018.
Our paper titled 'SecTap: Secure Back of Device Input System for Mobile Devices' has been accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2018, November, 2017. [Demo Video]
Our CSCWD 2017 paper won Best Application Paper Award, April, 2017.
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on Program Co-chair of Mobile Security Track, CSS 2017, February, 2017.
Our team, Phoenix Decoder (凤凰解码), won award of excellence at GeekPwn, October, 2016. [Demo Video: This Smart Plug can 'twitter' by itself] [Media Impact: Sina, GeekPwn, etc.]
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on ACM SIGCOMM China and ACM SIGSAC China TPC, May, 2016.
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on IEEE INFOCOM 2017 Advisory TPC, April, 2016.
Dr. Zhen Ling won China Computer Federation (CCF) Doctoral Dissertation Award (10 recipients in China), January, 2016.
Our paper titled 'Secure Fingertip Mouse for Mobile Devices' has been accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2016, November, 2015. [Demo Video]
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to give a talk at CNCC 2015, October, 2015.
Our paper titled 'TorWard: Discovery, Blocking, and Traceback of Malicious Traffic over Tor' has been accepted by IEEE TIFS, July, 2015.
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to give a talk at WhiteHat 2015, July, 2015.
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on IEEE INFOCOM 2016 Advisory TPC, May, 2015.
Our paper titled 'Password Extraction via Reconstructed Wireless Mouse Trajectory' has been accepted by IEEE TDSC, March, 2015.
Dr. Zhen Ling won ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award (2 recipients in China), October, 2014.
Our work 'Every mobile device sees your password!' (周围的移动设备看到你的密码啦!) was presented in ISC 2014.
Our Privacy Enhanced Keyboard (PEK) was published in Google Play, 2014.
Dr. Zhen Ling won ACM Nanjing Chapter Excellent PhD Award, 2014.
Our paper titled 'Blind Recognition of Touched Keys on Mobile Devices' has been accepted by ACM CCS 2014.
Professional Activities
Secretary of ACM SIGSAC China, 2024 - present
Vice Chair of ACM SIGSAC China, 2020 - 2023
Journal Editorship
Associate Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), 2021 - present
Young Associate Editor, Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), 2022 - present
Guest Editor, Feature Topic on Advanced Computing and Endogenous Security, China Communications (CNCOMM), 2021
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Security and Privacy Aspects in IoT Communication, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), 2019
Guest Editor, Special Collection on End-to-End IoT Security and Privacy, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN), 2018
Guest Editor, 专刊: 网络信任体系与身份管理, 《信息安全学报》, 2017
Chair of Conference Technical Program Committee for
TPC Chair, The 19th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN), 2023
Security and Blockchain Track Chair, The 27th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2021
Workshops Chair, The 10th EAI Intelligent Mobility and Edge Computing for a Smarter World (MONAMI), 2020
Publicity and Social Media Chair, The 15th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2019
Program Co-Chair, The 3rd SIGSAC China Symposium, 2019
Publicity Co-Chair, The 37th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2018
TPC Track Chair, The 9th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS), 2017
Member of Conference Technical Program Committee for
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2024, 2025
International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), 2022, 2023, 2024
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GlobeCom), 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2019, 2020
IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2022, 2023, 2024
International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS), 2023
IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2020, 2021
International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN), 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2020
International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022
International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP), 2015, 2016, 2017
The ACM Turing 50th Celebration Conference - China (ACM TURC), 2017
The annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2016
IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Communications (HPCC), 2015, 2016
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC), 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications (BigDataService), 2015, 2016, 2017
IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), 2018
International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Big Data (BigSecurity), 2014, 2015, 2016
International Workshop on Information Security Application (WISA), 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), 2015
ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Privacy-Aware Mobile Computing (PAMCO), 2015
International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom), 2014
IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2013
Reviewer for Journal Manuscript Submissions
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS) (Formerly TISSEC)
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
ACM Computing Surveys
Computer Networks (COMNET)
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ)
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI)
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS)
ACM Transactions of Internet Technology (TOIT)
Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)
Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA)
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)
IET Information Security
Security and Communication Networks (SCN)
Ad Hoc Networks
Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA)
Computer Communications (COMCOM)
IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (WCM)
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (WCL)
IEEE Network Magazine
Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA)
International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN)
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN)
Journal of Computational Science
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems
Frontiers of Computer Science
Reviewer for Conference Manuscript Submissions
ACM MobiCom (2018)
IEEE ICC (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2018)
IEEE CNS (2012, 2016, 2017, 2018)
ACM CODASPY (2017)
ACM CCS (2016)
IEEE MASS (2017)
IEEE WCNC (2017)
IEEE VTC (2016 Fall)
IEEE INFOCOM (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
IEEE CCNC (2014)
IEEE GlobeCom (2011, 2012, 2014)
PETS (2013)
IEEE SecureComm (2011)
IEEE ICDCS-SPCC (2012)
DFRWS (2012)
