About me

_{I’m a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Monash University in the Faculty of Information Technology. I obtained my PhD degree from the University of Auckland in 2019. Before joining Monash University, I was a Post-Doc researcher in the Large-Scale Data & Systems (LSDS) group in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, UK.}

My research

_{My main research interests include applied cryptography, data protection in various systems, trusted execution environments, side-channel attacks, and privacy-preserving machine learning.}

I am always looking for self-motivated students. _{Please email me your CV, transcript, research statement, English test score.}

News!

• _{Our paper “Private Learning for Vertical Decision Trees: A Secure, Accurate, and Fast Realization” has been accepted by TDSC! Congratulations to Anxao Song (my visitor from Xidian)!}
• _{Our paper “Privacy Risks of LLM-Empowered Recommender Systems: An Inversion Attack Perspective” has been accepted by Recsys‘2025. Congratulations to Yubo (my postgraduate student）and Min Tang!}
• _{Our paper “CHIFRAUD: A Long-term Web Text Dataset for Chinese Fraud Detection” obtained the Best Paper Award for Social Impact at COLING 2025! Big Congratulations to Min Tang!}
• _{Our paper “CHIFRAUD: A Long-term Web Text Dataset for Chinese Fraud Detection” has been accepted by COLING‘2025. Congratulations to Min Tang again!}
• _{Our paper “Searchable Encryption for Conjunctive Queries with Extended Forward and Backward Privacy” has been accepted by PoPETs/PETs25!}

PhD Students

• _{Xuan Chen (2024-), Monash University}
• _{Wenhao Wang (2024-), Monash University}
• _{Chenchen Tan (2023-), Monash University (Suzhou campus)}
• _{Xinghao Li (2023-), Monash University (Suzhou campus)}
• _{Dongkun Hou (2023-), Monash University}
• _{Min Tang (2022-), Monash University Malaysia (co-supervised with Dr. Zhe Jin and Dr. Liang Shiuan-Ni)}
• _{Dandan Yuan (2019-2023), The Univerisity of Auckland (co-supervised with Prof Giovanni Russello)}
• _{Qifan Wang (2019-2023), The Univerisity of Auckland (co-supervised with Giovanni Russello)}
• _{Jianli Bai (2019-2023), The Univerisity of Auckland (co-supervised with Giovanni Russello)}

Teaching

• _{2024 S1, Lecturer & CE, FIT5163-Information & Computer Security}
• _{2023 S1&S2, Lecturer & CE, FIT5163-Information & Computer Security}
• _{2022 S1, Lecturer, FIT5163-Information & Computer Security}
• _{2021 S1, Lecturer, FIT5163-Information & Computer Security}