🪪 Basics

Name Mingming Zha

Label Postdoctoral Researcher 

Url https://sites.google.com/view/mingmingzha

🏫 Education

🎓 09/2019 - 10/2025               Indiana University,  Ph.D. in Computer Science 

Advisor:  Prof. XiaoFeng Wang

🎓 09/2016 - 01/2020              Chinese Academy of Sciences,  Master in Cyber Security 

                                                         Advisor: Prof. Kai Chen

🎓 09/2012 - 07/2016               Beijing Jiaotong University,  Bachelor in Information Security

                                                         Advisor: Prof. Wei Wang

🛡️ Services

• Program Committee Member: USENIX Security 2026; ACM CCS 2026

• Artifacts Evaluation Committee Member: IEEE S&P 2026;  NDSS 2026; ACM CCS 2025

• Reviewer for Journal: Cybersecurity (Springer) 2020, 2022-2024 

• External reviewer for ACM CCS 2017,2019, 2020-2021; NDSS 2019 

• General service to Cyber Security Workshop at Institute of Information Engineering, CAS 2017 

👨‍🏫 Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant, Indiana University                                                                            SP25 CSCI-B 547/INFO-I 533 Systems & Protocol Security and Information Assurance

• Teaching Assistant, Indiana University                                                                            

FA24 INFO-I/CSCI-B 430 Security for Networked Systems 

SP24 CSCI-B 547/INFO-I 533 Systems & Protocol Security and Information Assurance 

• Teaching Assistant, Indiana University                                                                            

FA22 CSCI-B546/INFO-I521 Malware: Threat and Defense

🎤 Keynote Talks

[1]  2024 The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS),  "Understanding Cross-Platform Referral Traffic for Illicit Drug Promotion",  October 16, 2024 (CCS 24)

[2] 2022 the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, "Hazard Integrated: Understanding Security Risks in App Extensions to Team Chat Systems", April 27, 2022 (NDSS 22)

[3] 2015  4th National Summit Forum on Network Security: A system of monitoring Android privacy leakage. (XDef 2015)

[4] 2015  9th Chinese Conference on Trusted Computing and Information Security (CTCIS 2015)

🧑‍💻 Work Experience

• 2025-Now Indiana University, Postdoctoral Researcher, Indiana, USA

• 2019-2024 Indiana University, Research Assistant, Indiana, USA

• Sept.2015-Jun.2016 State Key Laboratory of Information Security, CAS, Research Intern, Beijing, China   

🏅 Honors

2025, Distinguished Paper Award, The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS)

2025, Distinguished Artifact Reviewer Award, The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS)

2024, Student Travel Grant, The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS)

2017, The Outstanding Student, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2014, The National Scholarship, China