Ning Zhang
Scholar

Ning Zhang

Google Scholar ID: gwB_pJcAAAAJ
Washington University in St. Louis
Computer SecurityPrivacyCyber-physical Systems
Citations & Impact
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Citations
4,067
 
H-index
29
 
i10-index
62
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
13
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Recipient of the 2025 Provost Research Excellence Award
  • - Best Paper Award from the IEEE ISORC 2025
  • - Army Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recipient
  • - Distinguished Paper Award from USENIX Security 2024
  • - ARO Early Career Program (ECP) award recipient
  • - Winner of the FTC voice cloning challenge
  • - Outstanding Paper Award at RTSS 23
  • - Distinguished Artifact Award from USENIX Security 2023
  • - Best Paper Award and Distinguished Paper Award at DSN 23
  • - NSF CAREER award recipient to develop the system availability foundation for real-time CPS
  • - Joined COVID-19 CTI League to help defend against cyber threats on life-saving sectors
  • - Supervised student Ruide Zhang who successfully defended his PhD dissertation and joined ByteDance/TikTok full-time
  • - CTF team won both STLCyberCon CTF and STLCyberCup Hackathon
  • - Student Ruide Zhang won the runner-up award for the Confidential Computing Challenge (C3) by Google and Intel
  • - Student Ryan Xu won the first place in the Deloitte CTF challenge
Research Experience
  • - Leader of the Computer Security & Privacy Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis
Background
  • - System Security
  • - Secure execution environment
  • - Architecture side-channel
  • - Blockchain
  • - AI Security
  • - Trustworthy AI
  • - Big data privacy
  • - Software vulnerability discovery
  • - CPS/IoT Security
  • - Security in safety critical system
  • - Cyber resiliency in IoT
  • - Analog attacks on CPS sensors