▸ Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
Vespa: Efficient Secure Aggregation with Integrity Defense under Server Privacy
Jia Hu, Hongwei Li, Meng Hao, Hanxiao Chen, Pengzhi Xing, Wenbo Jiang, Dongxiao Liu, Haiyang Xue, Robert H. Deng
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2027
DyFence: Affordable Zero-Knowledge Auditing for Machine-Learning-as-a-Service
Pengzhi Xing, Meng Hao, Hongwei Li, Shenghao Wu, Ziyao Liu, Lisha Yao, Hanxiao Chen, Guomin Yang, Robert H. Deng
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2027
SecDVA: A Maliciously Secure Multi-Party Framework for Data Value Assessment in Modern Machine Learning Data Markets
Lixu Wang, Xinpeng Yang, Meng Hao, Guangyi Zhang, Tianwei Zhang, Wei Dong, Chenkai Weng
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2027
Sanitizer: Blazing-fast, Private and Robust Federated Learning [paper]
Hanxiao Chen, Hongwei Li, Meng Hao, Jia Hu, Hao Ren, Haomiao Yang, Tianwei Zhang, Guowen Xu
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2026
Conan: Secure and Reliable Machine Learning Inference against Malicious Service Providers [paper]
Hanxiao Chen, Hongwei Li, Meng Hao, Pengzhi Xing, Jia Hu, Wenbo Jiang, Tianwei Zhang, Guowen Xu
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2026
PrivTF: Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Transformer Inference with Optimized Protocols for Secure NLP [paper]
Ziwei Peng, Kaiping Xue, Bin Zhu, Yaxuan Huang, Jian Li, Meng Hao, Tianwei Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2026
Scalable Zero-knowledge Proofs for Non-linear Functions in Machine Learning [paper]
Meng Hao, Hanxiao Chen, Hongwei Li, Chenkai Weng, Yuan Zhang, Haomiao Yang, Tianwei Zhang
USENIX Security Symposium, 2024
SecBNN: Efficient Secure Inference on Binary Neural Networks [paper]
Hanxiao Chen, Hongwei Li, Meng Hao, Jia Hu, Guowen Xu, Xilin Zhang, Tianwei Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024
Efficient and Privacy-preserving Outsourcing of Gradient Boosting Decision Tree Inference [paper]
Shuai Yuan, Hongwei Li, Xinyuan Qian, Meng Hao, Yixiao Zhai, Guowen Xu
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2024
Decentralized Multi-Client Functional Encryption for Inner Product with Applications to Federated Learning [paper]
Xinyuan Qian, Hongwei Li, Meng Hao, Guowen Xu, Haoyong Wang, Yuguang Fang
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2024
Vertical Federated Learning across Heterogeneous Regions for Industry 4.0 [paper]
Rui Zhang, Hongwei Li, Meng Hao, Yuan Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2024
GuardHFL: Privacy Guardian for Heterogeneous Federated Learning [paper]
Hanxiao Chen, Meng Hao, Hongwei Li, Kangjie Chen, Guowen Xu, Tianwei Zhang, Xilin Zhang
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023
FastSecNet: An Efficient Cryptographic Framework for Neural Network Inference [paper]
Meng Hao, Hongwei Li, Hanxiao Chen, Pengzhi Xing, Tianwei Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2023
PriVDT: An Efficient Two-Party Cryptographic Framework for Vertical Decision Trees [paper]
Hanxiao Chen, Hongwei Li, Yingzhe Wang, Meng Hao, Guowen Xu, Tianwei Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2023
Iron: Private Inference on Transformers [paper, code]
Meng Hao, Hongwei Li, Hanxiao Chen, Pengzhi Xing, Guowen Xu, Tianwei Zhang
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022
Efficient, Private and Robust Federated Learning [paper]
Meng Hao, Hongwei Li, Guowen Xu, Hanxiao Chen, Tianwei Zhang
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2021
Efficient and Privacy-enhanced Federated Learning for Industrial Artificial Intelligence [paper]
Meng Hao, Hongwei Li, Xizhao Luo, Guowen Xu, Haomiao Yang, Sen Liu
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2020
▸ Private Set Operations and Retrieval
Efficient Fuzzy Private Set Intersection from Secret-shared OPRF [paper, code]
Xinpeng Yang, Meng Hao, Chenkai Weng, Robert H. Deng, Yonggang Wen, Tianwei Zhang
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2026
Towards Scalable Fuzzy PSI via Efficient Fuzzy Matching [paper]
Meng Hao, Xinpeng Yang, Hanxiao Chen, Tianwei Zhang, Haiyang Xue, Guomin Yang, Hongwei Li, Robert H. Deng
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2026
Efficient Fuzzy PSI under One-Sided Assumptions [paper]
Xinpeng Yang, Meng Hao, Yanxue Jia, Chenkai Weng, Yonggang Wen, Tianwei Zhang
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2026
Enhanced Private Set Union from Secret-shared Private Membership Test [paper]
Meng Hao, Guodong Wang, Xinpeng Yang, Pengzhi Xing, Hanxiao Chen, Tianwei Zhang, Haiyang Xue, Guomin Yang, Hongwei Li, Robert H. Deng
USENIX Security Symposium, 2026
Practical Keyword Private Information Retrieval from Key-to-Index Mappings [paper, code]
Meng Hao, Weiran Liu, Liqiang Peng, Cong Zhang, Pengfei Wu, Lei Zhang, Hongwei Li, Robert H. Deng
USENIX Security Symposium, 2025
Unbalanced Circuit-PSI from Oblivious Key-Value Retrieval [paper]
Meng Hao, Weiran Liu, Liqiang Peng, Hongwei Li, Cong Zhang, Hanxiao Chen, Tianwei Zhang
USENIX Security Symposium, 2024
Unbalanced Private Set Union with Reduced Computation and Communication [paper]
Cong Zhang, Yu Chen, Weiran Liu, Liqiang Peng, Meng Hao, Anyu Wang, Xiaoyun Wang
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024
▸ MPC, ZKP & Cryptographic Protocols
LAS+: Lattice-based Adaptor Signature with Stronger Security
Jiaheng Wang, Guomin Yang, Haiyang Xue, Meng Hao, Robert H. Deng
Information Security Conference (ISC), 2026
KyberBridge: Enabling One-to-Many Data Sharing with Kyber Cryptosystem
Pengfei Wu, Lisha Yao, Guomin Yang, Yang Yang, Meng Hao, Haiyang Xue, Robert H. Deng
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2026
Cloud-Compatible and Scalable Private Messaging via Authentication Piggybacking
Jingwen Lu, Meng Hao, Yuan Zhang, Yaqing Song, Tianhao Yang
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2026
T3AT: Threshold-Authorized, Threshold-Redeemable, and Non-Transferable Anonymous Tokens [paper]
Xincheng Li, Jian Shen, Jianting Ning, Meng Hao, Leo Yu Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2026
STEAD: Subversion-Resistant Portable Encrypted Data Deduplication with File Sharing
Changsong Jiang, Xiaosong Zhang, Guomin Yang, Zhongming Wang, Meng Hao, Pengfei Wu
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2026
HyperSiniel: Guaranteed Output Delivery Comes (Almost) Free in Private Delegation of zkSNARKs [paper]
Yunbo Yang, Yuejia Cheng, Junkai Liang, Kailun Wang, Xuanming Liu, Xiaoguo Li, Jianfei Sun, Jiachen Shen, Xiaolei Dong, Zhenfu Cao, Meng Hao, Guomin Yang, Kui Ren, Robert H. Deng
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2026
Distributed Function Secret Sharing and Applications [paper, code]
Pengzhi Xing, Hongwei Li, Meng Hao, Hanxiao Chen, Jia Hu, Dongxiao Liu
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2025
Charge Your Clients: Payable Secure Computation and Its Applications [paper]
Cong Zhang, Liqiang Peng, Weiran Liu, Shuaishuai Li, Meng Hao, Lei Zhang, Dongdai Lin
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2025
▸ Machine Learning and System Security
Beyond Sensitive APIs: Detecting Access Control Flaws at Sensitive Callsites in Android Firmware
Haotian Deng, Meng Hao, Hanxiao Chen, Xinyuan Qian, Guowen Xu, Hongwei Li, Chaoshun Zuo
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2027
An Advanced Gradient Leakage Attack against Duplicate Labels via Model Outputs Reconstruction [paper]
Kunlan Xiang, Haomiao Yang, Meng Hao, Zikang Ding, Hongwei Li, Qingchuan Zhao, Tianwei Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2026
The Gradient Puppeteer: Adversarial Domination in Gradient Leakage Attacks through Model Poisoning [paper]
Kunlan Xiang, Haomiao Yang, Meng Hao, Shaofeng Li, Haoxin Wang, Zikang Ding, Wenbo Jiang, Tianwei Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2025
Stealthy Targeted Backdoor Attacks against Image Captioning [paper]
Wenshu Fan, Hongwei Li, Wenbo Jiang, Meng Hao, Shui Yu, Xiao Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024
Practical Membership Inference Attack Against Collaborative Inference in Industrial IoT [paper]
Hanxiao Chen, Hongwei Li, Guishan Dong, Meng Hao, Guowen Xu, Haomiao Yang, Zhe Liu
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2022
