Hi, I'm Ce Zhou, an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T). I obtained my Ph.D. degree under the guidance of Dr. Qiben Yan at Michigan State University in 2025. My research focuses on Autonomous Driving Security, AI Security, and Cyber-Physical System (CPS) Security.

I am always seeking motivated Ph.D. students, with full financial support available through TA/RA positions. I also welcome Missouri S&T master’s and undergraduate students to collaborate with me on research projects!

If you are interested, please email me at zhouce001@gmail.com with the following materials: CV, Transcripts, TOEFL and GRE scores (if available)!

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Selected Publications

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Ce Zhou, Qiben Yan, Zhiyuan Yu, Eshan Dixit, Ning Zhang, Huacheng Zeng, Alireza Safdari Ghanhdari, “Short: Breaking the Charge: Exploiting State Manipulation in EV Charging”, in Proceeding of 3rd USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec).
Ce Zhou, Qian Li, Chen Li, Jun Yu, Yixin Liu, Guangjing Wang, Kai Zhang, Cheng Ji, Qiben Yan, Lifang He, Hao Peng, Jianxin Li, Jia Wu, Ziwei Liu, Pengtao Xie, Caiming Xiong, Jian Pei, Philip S Yu, Lichao Sun, “A Comprehensive Survey on Pretrained Foundation Models: A History from BERT to ChatGPT ”, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (2024): 1-65.
Ce Zhou, Qiben Yan, Daniel Kent, Guangjing Wang, Ziqi Zhang, Hayder Radha, Optical Lens Attack on Deep Learning Based Monocular Depth Estimation, in Proceeding of 20th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (EAI SecureComm).
Ce Zhou, Qiben Yan, Sijia Liu, Transient Adversarial 3D Projection Attacks on Object Detection in Autonomous Driving, in Proceeding of 2nd EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (EAI SmartSP).
Guangjing Wang, Hanqing Guo, Yuanda Wang, Bocheng Chen, Ce Zhou, Qiben Yan, Protecting Activity Sensing Data Privacy Using Hierarchical Information Dissociation, in Proceeding of the twelfth annual IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS).
Ce Zhou, Qiben Yan, Yan Shi, Lichao Sun, DoubleStar: Long-Range Attack towards Depth Estimation based Obstacle Avoidance in Autonomous Systems, in Proceeding of 31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 22, Acceptance Rate: 18%).
Rui Wang, Jayanthi Rao, Ce Zhou, Subir Biswas, Connectionless Edge-Cache Servers for Reducing Cellular Bandwidth Usage in Vehicular Networks, in Proceeding of 2021 International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS).
Ce Zhou, Yunmin Kim, Tae-Jin Lee, GSMAC: Group-Scheduled MAC protocol with Energy Beamforming in M2M Metworks, Wireless Personal Communications 111 (2020): 47-63.
Ce Zhou, Yunmin Kim, Tae-Jin Lee, A Group-based Energy Harvesting MAC Protocol with AP Scheduling in Machine-to-Machine Networks, in Proceeding of the 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM).
Ce Zhou, SSVEP-Based BCI Wheelchair Control System, arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.08703.
Tae-Jin Lee, Kyoung Min Kim, Ce Zhou, Methods and Systems for Group-based Energy Harvesting, U.S. Patent No. 11,411,420. (Application Granted)

Awards

VehicleSec ’25 Student Travel Grant, July, 2025
Michigan State University Research Enhancement Award, Jul. 2025
Michigan State University Summer Fellowship, Mar. 2025
NSF EAI SmartSP 2024 Student Travel Grants, Oct. 2024
Top 2 Finish in the Mcity AV Challenge Competition, Aug. 2024
Michigan State University Summer Fellowship, Mar. 2024
VehicleSec '24 Student Travel Grant, Feb. 2024
Michigan State University Summer Fellowship, Apr. 2023
USENIX Security '22 Student Grant, Jul. 2022
USENIX Security '22 Diversity Grant, Jul. 2022
Sungkyunkwan University Full Scholarship, Sep. 2016 - Aug. 2018
Outstanding Graduate at Yangtze University, Jun. 2016
Merit Student at Yangtze University, Sep. 2015
Shang Xian Company Scholarship, Nov. 2014
China National Encouragement Scholarship, Oct. 2013

Teaching

Comp Sci 5404: Introduction to Computer Vision (Fall'25)

CSE 422 Computer Networks (Fall’20, Spring’21, Fall’22, Spring’23)

CSE 480 Database Systems (Summer’21, Summer’22)

CSE824 Advanced Computer Networks and Communications (Fall’23)