Chen Wang (王 琛) Associate Professor ACM / IEEE / CCF Senior Member School of Electronic Information and Communications Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, Hubei, 430074 P.R. China Email:   dr.chen.wang@ieee.org (for research)        chenwang@hust.edu.cn (for teaching) Office:  Room C-309, East #17 Building, HUST

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Short Biography

I am currently an Associate Professor at School of Electronic Information and Communications (EIC), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), P. R. China. I obtained my B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Department of Automation, Wuhan University (WHU), P. R. China, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. From Jun. 2013 to Jan. 2018, I was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at School of EIC, HUST, working with Prof. Hongbo Jiang. I am broadly interested in Internet of Things, computational intelligence, data mining, and mobile computing, with a recent focus on three major research fronts:

• Adversarial patterns and countermeasures in machine learning.
• Privacy enhancing technologies in distributed intelligent systems.
• Big data analytics for geographical modelling, analysis and mining.

Openings. I am looking for highly self-motivated Ph.D./M.S. students who are strongly committed to cutting-edge research on the intersection of security, privacy and machine learning. Experienced in machine learning with solid background in programming is a big plus. If you are interested, drop me an email at dr.chen.wang@ieee.org.

Current Students [Full List]

• Ph.D. Students
  • Tianlong Xu (2022~, M.S. from HUST)
  • Min Chen (2021~, M.S. from CUG)
  • Zhanhao Zhang (2024~, B.S. from HUST)
• M.S. Students
  • Yanan Sun (2024~, B.S. from HUST)
  • Xijie Wang (2023~, B.S. from SHU)
  • Weizhuo Gao (2022~, B.S. from HUST)
  • Yuan Gao (2022~, B.S. from CUG)
  • Lishuai Hou (2022~, B.S. from DLUT)
  • Wenlong Shi (2022~, B.S. from WHUT)
  • Yuxi Zhu (2022~, B.S. from WHUT)
  • Zehao Tian (2021~, B.S. from WHUT)

Research Grants

• National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program), No.62272183, 1/2023-12/2026, PI
• National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program), No.61872416, 1/2019-12/2022, PI
• Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China, No.2019kfyXJJS017, 1/2019-12/2021, PI
• National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Program), No.61502192, 1/2016-12/2018, PI
• China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Special Grant), No.2017T100556, 6/2017-12/2017, PI
• China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (General Program, First Class), No.2014M560608, 9/2014-9/2017, PI
• CCF-Tencent Rhino-Bird Creativity Fund, No.IAGR20160111, 9/2016-8/2017, PI

Selected Publications [Full List] [Google Scholar]

• [TIFS] Gaoyang Liu, Tianlong Xu, Rui Zhang, Zixiong Wang, Chen Wang*, Ling Liu. Gradient-Leaks: Enabling Black-box Membership Inference Attacks against Machine Learning Models. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 2024, 19: 427-440. (code)
• [CVPR] Min Chen, Weizhuo Gao, Gaoyang Liu, Kai Peng, Chen Wang*. Boundary Unlearning: Rapid Forgetting of Deep Networks via Shifting the Decision Boundary. In Proc. of 34th IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Vancouver, Canada, 2023. (arXiv; code)
• [TIFS] Gaoyang Liu, Zehao Tian, Jian Chen, Chen Wang*, Jiangchuan Liu. TEAR: Exploring Temporal Evolution of Adversarial Robustness for Membership Inference Attacks against Federated Learning. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 2023, 18: 4996-5010. (code)
• [TSC] Chen Wang, Mengting Yuan, Rui Zhang, Kai Peng, Ling Liu. Efficient Piont-of-Interest Recommendation Services with Heterogenous Hypergraph Embedding. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 2023, 16(2): 1132-1143. (code)
• [TMC] Xiaoqiang Ma, Fengxiang Ding, Kai Peng, Yang Yang, Chen Wang*. CP-Link: Exploiting Continuous Spatio-Temporal Check-in Patterns for User Identity Linkage. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 2023, 22(8): 4594-4606.
• [TII] Jian Chen, Yuan Gao, Jinyong Shan, Kai Peng, Chen Wang*, Hongbo Jiang. Manipulating Supply Chain Demand Forecasting with Targeted Poisoning Attacks. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 2023, 19(2): 1803-1813. (code)
• [TIFS] Gaoyang Liu, Tianlong Xu, Xiaoqiang Ma, Chen Wang*. Your Model Trains on My Data? Protecting Intellectual Property of Training Data via Membership Fingerprint Authentication. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 2022, 17: 1024-1037. (code)
• [TIFS] Jian Chen, Xuxin Zhang, Rui Zhang, Chen Wang*, Ling Liu. De-Pois: An Attack-Agnostic Defense against Data Poisoning Attacks. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 2021, 16: 3412-3425. (code)
• [TIFS] Xuxin Zhang, Jian Chen, Rui Zhang, Chen Wang*, Ling Liu. Attacking Recommender Systems with Plausible Profiles. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 2021, 16: 4788-4800. (code)
• [IWQoS] Gaoyang Liu, Xiaoqiang Ma, Yang Yang, Chen Wang*, Jiangchuan Liu. FedEraser: Enabling Efficient Client-Level Data Removal from Federated Learning Models. In Proc. of 29th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service, Tokyo, Japan (Virtual Conference), 2021. (arXiv; code)
• [TSUSC] Chen Wang, Gaoyang Liu, Haojun Huang, Weijie Feng, Kai Peng, Lizhe Wang. MIASec: Enabling Data Indistinguishability against Membership Inference Attacks in MLaaS. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. 2020, 5(3): 365-373.

Honors and Awards

• Third Prize, Privacy Computing and Data Security Challenge, TC-BDSP, CIPSC, 2022
• Excellent Undergraduate Class Advisor, HUST, 2020
• Yellow Crane Talents (Excellent Young Scholar), Wuhan Municipal Government, 2019
• One of the Best Papers, 20th IEEE MDM, 2019
• Top Peer Reviewer Award, Web of Science Group, Clarivate Analytics, 2019
• Natural Science Award (Second Prize, 3/3), Hunan Provincial Government, 2018
• 100 Representative Grantees, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2018
• Distinguished ACM China Lecturer, ACM TURC 2017

Professional Activities

• Membership
  • Senior Member, IEEE (2019-present); Member, IEEE (2013-2018); Student Member (2010-2013)
  • Senior Member, ACM (2019-present); Member, ACM (2014-2018)
  • Senior Member, CCF (2019-present); Member, CCF (2014-2018)
• Editorial Board Member
  • Frontiers in Big Data - Cybersecurity and Privacy Section (2022-present)
  • International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (2020-present)
  • International Journal of Intelligent Networks (2019-present)
• Conference Organizing Committee Member
  • DSIT 2024 (Publicity Chair), 7th Intl Conf. on Data Science and Information Technology
  • ICECI 2023 (PC Chair), 4th Intl Conf. on Edge Computing and IoT: Systems, Management and Security
  • INCC 2023 (Publicity Chair), Intl Conf. on Information Network and Computer Communications
  • ICIBE 2022 (PC Chair), 8th Intl Conf. on Industrial and Business Engineering
  • ICCC 2022 (Regional Chair), 8th Intl Conf. on Computer and Communications
  • TrustCom 2021 (Local Chair), 20th IEEE Intl Conf. on Trust, Security and Privacy in Comput. and Comm.
  • ICCBD 2021 (PC Co-Chair), 4th Intl Conf. on Computing and Big Data
  • ICBCT 2020 (PC Chair), Intl Conf. on Blockchain Technology
• Conference Program Committee Member
  • 2024: AAAI, CHI, ICWSM, ICASSP, WCNC, ICIN, APCC, CCCN, BDPC, CSNT, AICTC
  • 2023: AAAI, ICWSM, ICASSP, ICICS, WCNC, TrustCom, ISPA, VTC, IRI, EUC, ICIN, CSCN, APCC, SocialCom
  • 2022: ICWSM, WCNC, TrustCom, HPCC, ICIN, CSCN, CICN, ICDIS, ICCT, ICNIT, CSNT, ARCI, CSAE, 3ICT
  • 2021: WCNC, ICIN, IUCC, CIT, AICCSA, EUC, ICCT, ICCC, ICCSN, ARCI, WF-5G, 3ICT
  • 2020: ICIN, ISPA, CollaborateCom, SustainCom, ICCT, CICN, ICCC, ICCSN, WF-5G, 3ICT
• Journal Reviewer
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
  • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
  • IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
  • IEEE Network Magazine
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications
  • ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (ACM UbiComp)
  • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs)

Courses

• Computer Networks
  • Undergraduate Course, Fall 2022, 2023
  • Textbook: Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (6th Edition)
  • Reference: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (8th Edition)
• Internet of Things
  • Undergraduate Course, Spring 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • Textbook: Introduction to Internet of Things (4th Edition)
  • Reference: Introduction to Mobile Internet (4th Edition)

Misc

• CCF Publication Ranking
• Influential Security Papers
• Awesome Federated Learning
• Awesome Machine Unlearning
• Advice on Research and Writing
• Best Paper Awards in Computer Science
• Computer Security Conference Ranking and Statistic
• Some Modest Advice for Graduate Students (in Chinese)
• IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy

Last updated: 2023-11