Qingchuan Zhao
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Qingchuan Zhao

Google Scholar ID: XOtjYGIAAAAJ
City University of Hong Kong
Mobile securityIoT securityProgram AnalysisReverse Engineering
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Publications
20
 
Co-authors
13
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Publications
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Hidden Tail: Adversarial Image Causing Stealthy Resource Consumption in Vision-Language Models
2025
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ConfGuard: A Simple and Effective Backdoor Detection for Large Language Models
2025
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FIGhost: Fluorescent Ink-based Stealthy and Flexible Backdoor Attacks on Physical Traffic Sign Recognition
2025
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MPMA: Preference Manipulation Attack Against Model Context Protocol
2025
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BadLingual: A Novel Lingual-Backdoor Attack against Large Language Models
2025
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THEMIS: Towards Practical Intellectual Property Protection for Post-Deployment On-Device Deep Learning Models
2025
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A Survey on Backdoor Threats in Large Language Models (LLMs): Attacks, Defenses, and Evaluations
2025
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ITPatch: An Invisible and Triggered Physical Adversarial Patch against Traffic Sign Recognition
arXiv.org · 2024
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 2024 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (46th International Conference on Software Engineering)
  • 2026 NDSS'26: ProtocolGuard: Detecting Protocol Non-compliance Bugs via LLM-guided Static Analysis and Dynamic Verification
  • 2025 NeurIPS'25: The Fluorescent Veil: A Stealthy and Effective Physical Adversarial Patch Against Traffic Sign Recognition
  • 2025 ICML'25: Omni-Angle Assault: An Invisible and Powerful Physical Adversarial Attack on Face Recognition
  • 2025 Security'25: A Thorough Security Analysis of BLE Proximity Tracking Protocols
  • 2025 Security'25: THEMIS: Towards Practical Intellectual Property Protection for Post-Deployment On-Device Deep Learning Models
  • 2025 Security'25: MBFuzzer: A Multi-Party Protocol Fuzzer for MQTT Brokers
  • 2025 NDSS'25: Non-intrusive and Unconstrained Keystroke Inference in VR Platforms via Infrared Side Channel
  • 2024 IMWUT/Ubicomp'24: mmSpyVR: Exploiting mmWave Radar for Penetrating Obstacles to Uncover Privacy Vulnerability of Virtual Reality
  • 2024 IEEE S&P'24: AVA: Inconspicuous Attribute Variation-based Adversarial Attack bypassing DeepFake Detection
Research Experience
  • Serves as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. Seeking self-motivated students with strong interests in security and privacy, especially those without prior research experience or published papers are recommended to apply for the RA position.
Background
  • Currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. Primary research interests include vulnerability discovery in mobile apps, cloud, and IoT, as well as automated reverse engineering.
Miscellany
  • Seeking self-motivated students with strong interests in security and privacy to join his team.
Co-authors
13 total
Zhiqiang Lin
Zhiqiang Lin
Distinguished Professor of Engineering, The Ohio State University
Co-author 2
Co-author 2
Kehuan Zhang
Kehuan Zhang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Haohuang Wen
Haohuang Wen
SE-RAN.ai
Yinqian Zhang
Yinqian Zhang
Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology
Wing Cheong Lau
Wing Cheong Lau
Professor, Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dong Xuan
Dong Xuan
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio-State University
Ness Shroff
Ness Shroff
Department of ECE and CSE, The Ohio State University