Yuan Zhang (张 渊)

Professor
School of Computer Science
Nanjing University
Nanjing, 210023, China
Email: zhangyuan AT nju.edu.cn

I am a research member of COSEC, led by Prof. Sheng Zhong. I received BS (2005) in Automation from Tianjin University, MSE (2009) in Software Engineering from Tsinghua University, and PhD (2013) in Computer Science from State University of New York at Buffalo. Currently I am a professor (Ph.D. advisor) in the School of Computer Science at Nanjing University.

My research interests include security, privacy, and economic incentives.

Recent Publications

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  1. Privacy-Preserving Quantum Annealing for Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) Problems
    Moyang Xie, Yuan Zhang, Sheng Zhong, Qun Li
    In IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE24), 2024

  2. Towards Payment Channel Watchtowers with Collateral-free Security and Robustness
    Minze Xu, Yuan Zhang and Sheng Zhong
    In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (CCF A), 2024

  3. GameTE: A Game-Theoretic Distributed Traffic Engineering in Trustless Multi-Domain SDN
    Yangyang Liu, Jingyu Hua, Yuan Zhang, Sheng Zhong
    In 2024 IEEE 44th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) (CCF B), 2024

  4. Solution Probing Attack Against Coin Mixing Based Privacy-Preserving Crowdsourcing Platforms
    Yunlong Mao, Ziqin Dang, Heng Wang, Yuan Zhang and Sheng Zhong
    In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (CCF A), 2024

  5. Revisiting Privacy-Preserving Min and K-Th Min Protocols for Mobile Sensing
    Jiacheng Gao, Yuan Zhang, and Sheng Zhong
    In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (CCF A), 2023.

  6. Towards Universal Detection of Adversarial Examples via Pseudorandom Classifiers
    Boyu Zhu, Changyu Dong, Yuan Zhang, Yunlong Mao and Sheng Zhong
    In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (CCF A), 2023.

  7. SilenTower: A Robust, Scalable and Secure Watchtower with Silent Executors
    Minze Xu, Yuan Zhang, and Sheng Zhong
    In Proceedings of the 42nd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2023) (CCF B), 2023.

  8. FLSwitch: Towards Secure and Fast Model Aggregation for Federated Deep Learning with a Learning State-Aware Switch
    Yunlong Mao, Ziqin Dang, Yu Lin, Tianling Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Jingyu Hua and Sheng Zhong
    In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) (CCF C), 2023.

  9. Unbalanced Private Set Intersection with Linear Communication Complexity
    Quanyu Zhao, Bingbing Jiang, Yuan Zhang, Heng Wang, Yunlong Mao, and Sheng Zhong
    In SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences (CCF A), 2023.

  10. On Designing Secure Cross-user Redundancy Elimination for WAN Optimization
    Yuan Zhang, Ziwei Zhang, Minze Xu, Chen Tian, Sheng Zhong
    In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) (CCF A), 2022.

  11. Secure Deduplication Schemes for Content Delivery in Mobile Edge Computing
    Yu Lin, Yunlong Mao, Yuan Zhang, Sheng Zhong
    In Computers & Security (CCF B), 2022.

  12. Secure Deep Neural Network Models Publishing Against Membership Inference Attacks Via Training Task Parallelism
    Yunlong Mao, Wenbo Hong, Boyu Zhu, Zhifei Zhu, Yuan Zhang, Sheng Zhong
    In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (CCF A), 2021.

  13. Privacy-Preserving Optimal Recovering for the Nearly Exhausted Payment Channels
    Minze Xu, Yuan Zhang, Fengyuan Xu, Sheng Zhong
    In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM 29th International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS) (CCF B), 2021.

  14. Towards Thwarting Template Side-channel Attacks in Secure Cloud Deduplications
    Yuan Zhang, Yunlong Mao, Minze Xu, Fengyuan Xu, Sheng Zhong
    In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (CCF A), 2021.

  15. Private Deep Neural Network Models Publishing for Machine Learning as a Service
    Yunlong Mao, Boyu Zhu, Wenbo Hong, Zhifei Zhu, Yuan Zhang and Sheng Zhong
    In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM 28th International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS) (CCF B), 2020.

  16. Blockchain-based privacy-preserving remote data integrity checking scheme for IoT information systems
    Quanyu Zhao, Siyi Chen, Zheli Liu, Thar Baker, Yuan Zhang
    In Information Processing & Management (CCF B), 2020.

  17. A Novel Defending Scheme for Graph-Based Classification Against Graph Structure Manipulating Attack
    Quanyu Zhao, Fengqian Zhang, Yuan Zhang
    In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data (SocialSec), 2020.

  18. Secure inter-domain forwarding loop test in software defined networks
    Yuan Zhang, Boyu Zhu, Yixin Fang, Suxin Guo, Aidong Zhang, Sheng Zhong
    In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (CCF A), 2020.

  19. Secure TDD MIMO Networks Against Training Sequence Based Eavesdropping Attack
    Yunlong Mao, Ying He, Yuan Zhang, Jingyu Hua and Sheng Zhong
    In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (CCF A), 2019.

  20. Multi-unit budget feasible mechanisms for cellular traffic offloading
    Jun Wu, Yuan Zhang, Yu Qiao, Lei Zhang, Chongjun Wang, Junyuan Xie
    In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS) (CCF B), 2019.

  21. On repeated stackelberg security game with the cooperative human behavior model for wildlife protection
    Binru Wang, Yuan Zhang, Zhi-Hua Zhou, annd Sheng Zhong
    In Applied Intelligence (CCF C), 2019.

  22. Location privacy in public access points positioning: An optimization and geometry approach
    Yunlong Mao, Yuan Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhang, Fengyuan Xu and Sheng Zhong
    In Computers & Security (CCF B), 2018.

  23. Securely min and k-th min computations with fully homomorphic encryption
    Bingbing Jiang, Yuan Zhang
    In Science China Information Sciences (CCF A), 2018.

  24. Towards Privacy-Preserving Aggregation for Collaborative Spectrum Sensing
    Yunlong Mao, Tingting Chen, Yuan Zhang, Tiancong Wang and Sheng Zhong
    In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (CCF A), 2017.

  25. Cost-efficient indoor white space exploration through compressive sensing
    Fan Wu, Dongxin Liu, Zhihao Wu, Yuan Zhang, and Guihai Chen
    In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (CCF A), 2017.

  26. Mobile payments in global markets using biometrics and cloud
    Doyel Pal, Praveenkumar Khethavath, Tingting Chen, and Yuan Zhang
    In International Journal of Communication Systems, 2017.

  27. Joint Differentially Private Gale-Shapley Mechanisms for Location Privacy Protection in Mobile Traffic Offloading Systems
    Yuan Zhang, Yunlong Mao and Sheng Zhong
    In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (CCF A), 2016.

  28. On Designing Satisfaction-Ratio-Aware Truthful Incentive Mechanisms for-Anonymity Location Privacy
    Yuan Zhang, Wei Tong, and Sheng Zhong
    In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (CCF A), 2016.

  29. Privacy-preserving data aggregation in mobile phone sensing
    Yuan Zhang, Qingjun Chen, and Sheng Zhong
    In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (CCF A), 2016.

  30. Competitive auctions for cost-aware cellular traffic offloading with optimized capacity gain
    Yuan Zhang, Siyuan Tang, Tingting Chen, and Sheng Zhong
    In Proceedings of the 35th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications(INFOCOM) (CCF A), 2016.

  31. Stemming Downlink Leakage from Training Sequences in Multi-User MIMO Networks
    Yunlong Mao, Yuan Zhang and Sheng Zhong
    In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (CCF A), 2016.

  32. Privacy Preserving Distributed Permutation Test
    Yunlong Mao and Yuan Zhang
    In Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing, 2016.

  33. A New Secure Index Supporting Efficient Index Updating and Similarity Search on Clouds
    Baojia Zhang, He Zhang, Boqun Yan, and Yuan Zhang
    In Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing, 2016.

  34. Privacy Preserving Market Schemes for Mobile Sensing
    Yuan Zhang, Yunlong Mao, He Zhang and Sheng Zhong
    In Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) (CCF B), 2015.

  35. Protecting Location Information in Collaborative Sensing of Cognitive Radio Networks
    Yunlong Mao, Tingting Chen, Yuan Zhang, Tiancong Wang and Sheng Zhong
    In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM) (CCF C), 2015.

Academic Sevices

Teaching

Graduate students whom I've supervised/co-supervised/cooperated with (in an alphabetical order)