Category: achievement

December 8, 2025

Paper Accepted by INFOCOM 2026

Our paper “BeeKeeper: Securing Cross-Technology Communication via Channel-Aware Dual-Binding” is accepted by INFOCOM 2026. Congratulations to Weizheng!

December 5, 2025

Two Papers Accepted by USENIX Security ‘26

Our papers “United We Defend: Collaborative Membership Inference Defenses in Federated Learning” and “The Prompt Stealing Fallacy: Rethinking Metrics, Attacks, and Defenses” are accepted by 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Sec), 2026. Congratulations to Li and Zehang!

December 3, 2025

Paper Accepted by NDSS 2026

Our paper “WiFinger: Fingerprinting Noisy IoT Event Traffic Using Packet-level Sequence Matching” is accepted by NDSS 2026. Congratulations to Ronghua!

November 24, 2025

Two Papers Accepted by KDD 2026

Our papers “‘Adversarial Signed Graph Learning with Differential Privacy” and “Communication-efficient Federated Graph Classification via Generative Diffusion Modeling” are accepted by SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2026. Congratulations to Haobin and Xiuling!

November 11, 2025

Four Papers Accepted by AAAI 2026

Our papers “DIFT: Protecting Contrastive Learning against Data Poisoning Backdoor Attacks”, “Class-feature Watermark: A Resilient Black-box Watermark Against Model Extraction Attacks”, “How Much Do Large Language Model Cheat on Evaluation? Benchmarking Overestimation under the One-Time-Pad-Based Framework”, and “Stochastic Universal Adversarial Perturbations with Fixed Optimization Constraint and Ensured High-probability Transferability” have been accepted by AAAI ’26. Congratulations to Jiang, Yaxin, Zi, and Yulin!

September 19, 2025

Two Papers Accepted by NeurIPS 2025

Our papers “‘Virus Infection Attack on LLMs: Your Poisoning Can Spread “VIA” Synthetic Data” and “Toward Efficient Inference Attacks: Shadow Model Sharing via Mixture-of-Experts” are accepted by Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025. Congratulations to Zi and Li!

July 1, 2025

Two GRF Grants Awarded

Prof. Hu has been awarded an RGC/GRF grant with project title “Privacy-Preserving Multimodal Data Management: A Database Perspective”. The total amount is HK$854,554. Prof. Ye has been awarded an RGC/GRF grant with project title “From Randomized Response to Randomized Index: Value-invariant Mechanisms for Local Differential Privacy”. The total amount is HK$887,188.

June 26, 2025

Two Papers Accepted by ICCV 2025

Our papers “‘Reminiscence Attack on Residuals: Exploiting Approximate Machine Unlearning for Privacy” and “Federated Continuous Category Discovery and Learning” are accepted by International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025. Congratulations to Yaxin and Lixu!

June 23, 2025

Paper Accepted by VLDB 2025

Our paper “PrivAGM: Secure Construction of Differentially Private Directed Attributed Graph Models on Decentralized Social Graphs” is accepted by VLDB 2025.

May 16, 2025

Paper Accepted by ACL 2025

Our paper “‘Yes, My LoRD.’ Guiding Language Model Extraction with Locality Reinforced Distillation” is accepted by the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) Main Conference. Congratulations to Zi!