Ph.D. Candidate


University at Buffalo SUNY
309 White Rd, Amherst, NY 14260
[Email] name AT buffalo DOT edu
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Short bio: I am a Ph.D. candidate majoring in Computer Science at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). My advisor is Prof. Hongxin Hu. I received my bachelor's degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University. I am grateful to have received support for my research from the Amazon Research Award.

Research Interests

My research interests center around cyberscurity and machine learning. I am particularly interested in developing explainable and robust machine learning models for network security. I am also interested in the intersection of machine learning and cybersecurity, including ai-powered cyber attacks and adversarial machine learning.

Publications

  1. xNIDS: Explaining Deep Learning-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems for Active Intrusion Responses.

    In Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 2023, Anaheim, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2023

    Feng Wei, Hongda Li, Ziming Zhao, and Hongxin Hu.

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  2. Enabling Dynamic Network Access Control with Anomaly-based IDS and SDN.

    Feng Wei*, Hongda Li*, and Hongxin Hu.

    In Proceedings of ACM International Workshop on Security in Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV Security 2019), Richardson, Texas, USA, March 27, 2019. (*co-first auhtor)

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Collabrators

  • Professor Fabio Pierazzi AI for System Security, King's College London, UK.
  • Professor Yisroel Mirsky Offensive AI, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
  • Dr. Ye Wang Machine Learning and Information Theory, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA.
  • Ph.D. Student Xinfan Guo Safe and Trusted AI, Imperial College London, UK.
  • Ph.D. Student Guojun Xiong Applied Math and Statistics, Stony Brook University, USA.

Services

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Conference Paper (Sub) Reviewer:


Journal Paper Reviewer:

  • IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
  • Information Systems Frontiers
  • Computers & Security

Teaching

Competitions and Awards

Hobby

  • I like swimming and sailing.
  • "All men will be sailors then, until the sea shall free them." - Leonard Cohen
  • “小舟从此逝,江海寄余生” - 苏轼