Yue Zhang (张悦)

 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Drexel University

Co-Director of the Security and Privacy Analytics Laboratory (SePAL) along with Dr. Eric (Zhibo) Sun.  

Address: 3675 Market & Office Location  Office 1152  Philadelphia, PA 19104

Email:  zyueinfosec@gmail.com or yz899@drexel.edu

You can also find me at [Google Scholar] [DBLP

⌚ News

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✯ 2024. Nov-  One paper accepted by  The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2025 - 𝕟𝕖𝕨 !

✯ 2024. Oct - I will serve as a TPC Member (Network Security Track) for ACM CCS 2025 - 𝕟𝕖𝕨 !

✯ 2024. Oct - I will serve as a TPC Member for WWW 2025 (Security and Privacy Track) - 𝕟𝕖𝕨 !

✯ 2024. Sep -  One paper accepted by The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024)  

✯ 2024. Sep - I will serve as a Guest Editor for special issue “Secure Data Privacy and Encryption in Digital Networks”, MDPI Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292), JCR-Q2, IF 2.6  

✯ 2024. Sep - I will serve as a TPC Member for ICDCS 2025 (Security, Privacy, and Trust Track)  

✯ 2024. Aug -  One paper accepted by  The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2025  

✯ 2024. Aug -  One paper accepted by  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) , 2024. We have three CCS papers this year!  

✯ 2024. July- I will serve as a TPC Member for USENIX Security 2025  

✯ 2024.June - I will serve as a TPC Member for the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P 2025 

✯ 2024. May -    I will serve as a Guest Editor for special issue “Symmetry and Asymmetry in IoT Security” , a TPC Member for ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Superapps (SaTS) 2024 and Artificial Intelligence  and Organization Committee for The Artificial Intelligence Conference 2025 

✯ 2024. April -   I will serve as a TPC Member for The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2025  

✯ 2024. April -  Two papers accepted by  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) , 2024  

✯ 2024. Mar -  One paper on blockchain-based data sharing system is accepted by Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA) 

✯ 2024. Mar -  I will serve as a TPC Member for The International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks 2024 (ICCCN 2024)  and TPC Chair for The IEEE MetaCom Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Infrastructures for Metaverse (STIM 2024)   

✯ 2024. Feb -  I will serve as a TPC Member for the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference 2024 (ACSAC 2024)  

✯ 2024. Feb -  I will serve as a General Chair for EAI ICECI 2024 - International Conference on Edge Computing and IoT: Systems, Management and Security   

✯ 2024. Feb - I will serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 

✯ 2024. Jan -  One paper accepted by  USENIX Security 2024 and  AsiaCCS 2024  

✯ 2024. Jan -  I will serve as a Track Chair (Security and Privacy Track) for IEEE MASS 2024  

✯ 2023. Dec  - I will serve as a TPC Member (Network Security Track) for ACM CCS 2024  

✯ 2023. Dec - One paper accepted by IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 202

✯ 2023. Nov -  I will serve as a TPC Member for the Mining Software Repositories 2024 (MSR 2024),  Workshop on Measurements, Attacks, and Defenses for the Web (MADWeb 2024), and the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P) 2024   

✯ 2023. Oct - I will serve as Editors for  PeerJ Computer Science (ISSN 2376-5992) , Computers, Materials & Continua (ISSN 1546-2218) and Blockchain (ISSN 2958-8138) 

✯ 2023. June - I will serve as a Track Chair for IEEE MSN  

✯ 2023. May - One paper accepted by  USENIX Security 2023 

✯ 2023. May - I will serve as a TPC Member for USENIX Security 2024 

✯ 2023. May - Two papers accepted by  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) , 2023 -𝕟𝕖𝕨 !

✯ 2023. Mar -  I will serve as a TPC Member for NDSS 2024 

✯ 2022. Nov- One paper won the ACM CCS'22 Best Paper Honorable Mention

 ✯ 2022. Oct -  Three papers accepted by  The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2023 

✯ 2022. Aug - Two papers accepted by  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) , 2022 

♞ About ME

Biography

I am a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Drexel University. Before joining Drexel, I spent three years as a postdoc researcher at The Ohio State University (OSU) (2020 - 2023), working with Prof. Zhiqiang Lin. Before coming to OSU, I graduated from Jinan University (2016 - 2020),  under the supervision of Jian Weng and Weiqi Luo.    Also, I ever visited/worked at  University of Central Florida (UCF) / University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) (2018 -2020),  under the supervision of  Xinwen Fu.  My research focuses on system security, especially IoT security.  

 

Research Interests  

Program analysis,  data security and privacy,  mobile Security,  IoT Security, 


✺ Professional Activities

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Conference Organization

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✒  Recent Publications (Complete list)

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I have published more than 30 papers. My publications appeared in top-tier conferences (e.g., Usenix Security,  ACM CCS, NDSS, SIGMETRICS, Blackhat Asia, INFOCOM), and top-tier journals (e.g., TDSC, TPDS). 

Top-tier security venues (15 papers): USENIX-Security ('24,  '23, '20), CCS ('24*3, '23*2, '22*2),  NDSS ('23*3, '25*2)

Ranking Statistics: CCF A: 24 papers, CCF B: 6 papers, CCF C: 5 papers

Authors with "_" are the students under my supervision.

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