Welcome! I am currently a PhD student in Computer Engineering at the University of Houston. My primary research interests focus on IoT Security and AI/ML Security.

📖 Educations

• 2024.08 - Present, PhD student, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston.

  • Advisors: Miao Pan

• 2021.09 - 2024.06, Master, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UESTC, Chengdu.

  • Co-advisors: Xiong Li and Weina Niu
  • GPA: 3.64/4.0

• 2017.09 - 2021.06, Bachelor, School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an.

  • GPA: 3.4/4.0

📝 Full Publications

Journal Papers:

• Applied Intelligence Model-Agnostic Generation-Enhanced Technology for Few-Shot Intrusion Detection in IoT, Junpeng He, Lingfeng Yao, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Xiong Li, Weina Niu, Xiaosong Zhang, Fagen Li

  Applied Intelligence, 2023. Paper

Conference Papers:

• ICC 2024 A Robust Malicious Traffic Detection Framework with Low-quality Labeled Data, Lingfeng Yao, Weina Niu, Qingjun Yuan, Beibei Li, Yanfeng Zhang, Xiaosong Zhang

  IEEE International Conference on Communications. Paper

• CSCWD 2024 A Generic Framework to Enhance Model Robustness for Intrusion Detection on Noisy Data, Lingfeng Yao, Anran Hou, Weina Niu, Qingjun Yuan, Junpeng He, Yanfeng Zhang

  The 27th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design. Paper

• ICDF2C 2023 DEML: Data-enhanced Meta-Learning Method for IoT APT Traffic Detection, Jia Hu, Weina Niu, Qingjun Yuan, Lingfeng Yao, Junpeng He, Yanfeng Zhang and Xiaosong Zhang

  The 14th EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime. Paper

• CSCWD 2023 Black-box Word-level Textual Adversarial Attack Based On Discrete Harris Hawks Optimization, Tianrui Wang, Weina Niu, Kangyi Ding, Lingfeng Yao, Pengsen Cheng and Xiaosong Zhang

  The 26th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design. Paper

Patents

• Yanfeng Zhang, Weina Niu, Lingfeng Yao, Jia Hu, Yizhuo Zhao, “A device and method for malicious traffic detection against label noise”, CN patent No. CN202310148063.0, Feb 2023.
• Weina Niu, Lingfeng Yao, Xiaosong Zhang, Jia Hu, Zhaoxu He, “An open set identification device and method for malicious traffic detection”, CN patent No. CN202310102130.5, Feb 2023.
• Weina Niu, Jia Hu, Xiaosong Zhang, Lingfeng Yao, Zhaoxu He, “A detection system and method for few-shot malicious traffic”, CN patent No. CN202310101380.7, Feb 2023.
• Yanfeng Zhang, Weina Niu, Jia Hu, Lingfeng Yao, “An IoT malicious traffic detection device against concept drift”, CN patent No. N202310148030.6, Feb 2023.
• Weina Niu, Xiaosong Zhang, Chong Wang, Lingfeng Yao, Tianci Dai, Lirui Zhao, Yukun Zhu, “A multi-view based HTTPS malware traffic detection system and method”, CN patent No. CN202210733908.8, June 2022.

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024.06 Student Travel Grant for ICC 2024
• 2023.10 Outstanding Graduate
• 2023.10 University Second Prize Scholarship
• 2022.10 University Third Prize Scholarship
• 2021.10 University Third Prize Scholarship
• 2019.10 University Third Prize Scholarship
• 2018.10 University Second Prize Scholarship

🏛 Professional Service

Reviewer:

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security