Dr. Zhen Ling

Associate Professor
School of Computer Science and Engineering
Southeast University
2 Southeast University Road,
Jiangning District, Nanjing 211189, China
Office: 210, Computer Building, Jiulonghu Campus
Tel: +86-
E-mail: zhenling(at)seu(dot)edu(dot)cn

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BioDr. Zhen Ling is an associate professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineeringat Southeast University. He finished his PhD in computer science at the Southeast University, China under the supervision of Prof. Junzhou Luoin 2014. He was a research associate in the Department of Computer Sciencefrom Aug. 2008 to Nov. 2009 at the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, honored to be working with Prof. Xinwen Fuand Prof. Weijia Jia. After that, he joined Department of Computer Scienceas a visiting PhD research student from Aug. 2011 to Aug. 2013 at the University of Victoria, B.C., Canada, where he worked with Prof. Xinwen Fuand Prof. Kui Wu.
Dr. Ling is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars and Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars. He won China Computer Federation (CCF) Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2015, ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award and ACM Nanjing Chapter Excellent PhD Award in 2014. He won Award of Excellence at GeekPwn in 2016 and 2020, respectively. He involved in various national, provincial and ministry level research projects and has been publishing papers in conferences such as ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), journals such as IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), and IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC). His research work was also presented in Black Hat.
Research InterestsInternet of Things, Smartphones, Network Security and Privacy
Latest NewsI was invited to serve as an Associate Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J)for a two-year term, January, 2021. NEW!
Our paper titled 'Prison Break of Android Reflection Restriction and Defense' has been accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2021, December, 2020. NEW!
Our team, Phoenix Decoder (凤凰解码), won award of excellence at GeekPwn, October, 2020.
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on IEEE INFOCOM 2021TPC, June, 2020.
Our paper titled 'Novel and Practical SDN-based Traceback Technique for Malicious Traffic over Anonymous Networks' has been accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2019, November, 2018.
Our paper titled 'SecTap: Secure Back of Device Input System for Mobile Devices' has been accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2018, November, 2017. [Demo Video]
Our CSCWD 2017paper won Best Application Paper Award, April, 2017.
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on Program Co-chair of Mobile Security Track, CSS 2017, February, 2017.
Our team, Phoenix Decoder (凤凰解码), won award of excellence at GeekPwn, October, 2016. [Demo Video: This Smart Plug can 'twitter' by itself][Media Impact: Sina, GeekPwn, etc.]
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on ACM SIGCOMM Chinaand ACM SIGSAC ChinaTPC, May, 2016.
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on IEEE INFOCOM 2017Advisory TPC, April, 2016.
Dr. Zhen Ling won China Computer Federation (CCF) Doctoral Dissertation Award(10 recipients in China), January, 2016.
Our paper titled 'Secure Fingertip Mouse for Mobile Devices' has been accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2016, November, 2015. [Demo Video]
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to give a talk at CNCC 2015, October, 2015.
Our paper titled 'TorWard: Discovery, Blocking, and Traceback of Malicious Traffic over Tor' has been accepted by IEEE TIFS, July, 2015.
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to give a talk at WhiteHat 2015, July, 2015.
Dr. Zhen Ling was invited to serve on IEEE INFOCOM 2016Advisory TPC, May, 2015.
Our paper titled 'Password Extraction via Reconstructed Wireless Mouse Trajectory' has been accepted by IEEE TDSC, March, 2015.
Dr. Zhen Ling won ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award(2 recipients in China), October, 2014.
Our work 'Every mobile device sees your password!' (周围的移动设备看到你的密码啦!)was presented in ISC 2014.
Our Privacy Enhanced Keyboard (PEK)was published in Google Play, 2014.
Dr. Zhen Ling won ACM Nanjing Chapter Excellent PhD Award, 2014.
Our paper titled 'Blind Recognition of Touched Keys on Mobile Devices' has been accepted by ACM CCS 2014.
Professional ActivitiesVice Chair of ACM SIGSAC China, 2020 - present
Journal Editorship
Associate Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), 2021 - present
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Security and Privacy Aspects in IoT Communication, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), 2019
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Distributed Computing Infrastructure for Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Access, 2019
Guest Editor, Special Collection on End-to-End IoT Security and Privacy, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN), 2018
Guest Editor, 专刊: 网络信任体系与身份管理, 《信息安全学报》, 2017
Chair of Conference Technical Program Committee for
Workshops Chair, The 10th EAI Intelligent Mobility and Edge Computing for a Smarter World (MONAMI), 2020
Publicity and Social Media Chair, The 15th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2019
Program Co-Chair, The 3rd SIGSAC China Symposium, 2019
Publicity Co-Chair, The 37th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2018
TPC Track Chair, The 9th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS), 2017
Member of Conference Technical Program Committee for
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2016, 2017, 2021

International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

IEEE Global Communications Conference (GlobeCom), 2019, 2020

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2019, 2020

IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2020

IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2020

International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN), 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2020

International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), 2016, 2017

International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP), 2015, 2016, 2017
The ACM Turing 50th Celebration Conference - China (ACM TURC), 2017

The annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2016
IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Communications (HPCC), 2015, 2016
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC), 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications (BigDataService), 2015, 2016, 2017
IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), 2018

International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Big Data (BigSecurity), 2014, 2015, 2016

International Workshop on Information Security Application (WISA), 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), 2015
ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Privacy-Aware Mobile Computing (PAMCO), 2015
International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom), 2014
IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2013

Reviewer for Journal Manuscript Submissions
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)

ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS) (Formerly TISSEC)

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)

IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)

ACM Computing Surveys

Computer Networks (COMNET)

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)

IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ)

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI)

ACM Transactions of Internet Technology (TOIT)

Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)

Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA)

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)

Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)

IET Information Security

Security and Communication Networks (SCN)

Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA)

Computer Communications (COMCOM)

IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (WCM)

IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (WCL)

IEEE Network Magazine

Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA)

International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN)

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN)

Journal of Computational Science

IEEE Access

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Frontiers of Computer Science

Reviewer for Conference Manuscript Submissions
ACM MobiCom (2018)

IEEE ICC (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2018)

IEEE CNS (2012, 2016, 2017, 2018)

ACM CODASPY (2017)

ACM CCS (2016)

IEEE MASS (2017)

IEEE WCNC (2017)

IEEE VTC (2016 Fall)

IEEE INFOCOM (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)

IEEE CCNC (2014)

IEEE GlobeCom (2011, 2012, 2014)

PETS (2013)

IEEE SecureComm (2011)

IEEE ICDCS-SPCC (2012)

DFRWS (2012)