Awards & Service

Faculty awards

  • Okawa Foundation Award2022
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE TPS2022
  • Google Research Scholar Award2021
  • Meta (Facebook) Faculty Award2021
  • NSF CAREER Award2020
  • NSF CRII Award2019
  • Amazon AI Faculty Fellowship2019

Student & postdoc awards

Peiran Wang

PhD Student

  • CCS Distinguished Paper Award2024
  • National Scholarship, China

Ying Li

PhD Student

  • Distinguished Artifact Reviewer, USENIX Security2025
  • Student Travel Grant, USENIX Security2025
  • Student Travel Grant, NDSS2024
  • OpenAI Researcher Access Program2024
  • Student Mentee, ACM CCS2023
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Award, Sichuan Province2021
  • Good Future Scholarship, Sichuan University (ranked 1st/126)2020
  • Cybersecurity Merit Student Scholarship2018

Kunlin Cai

PhD Alumni, now at Meta

  • Best Reviewer Award, AISTATS2025
  • Honorable Mention, CHI2025

Jinghuai Zhang

PhD Student

  • UCLA Graduate Student Fellowship2024–2025
  • HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund Academic Award2018–2019, 2019–2020
  • Hong Kong–Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Scholarship
  • Hong Kong Computer Society Student Sponsorship
  • Department of Computer Science Outstanding Student Scholarship, CityU HK
  • First-class Honor, City University of Hong Kong

Zihang Xiang

Postdoctoral Researcher

  • CSAW'24 Applied Research Competition Finalist

Faysal Hossain Shezan

PhD Alumni, now Assistant Professor at UT Arlington

  • Microsoft Research Award2025
  • Roots of Dedication-Service Award, UT Arlington2025
  • NSF Grant2025
  • Sub-Star Award, College of Engineering, UTA2024
  • UT System Rising Stars Award2023
  • CPS Rising Stars
  • UVA Endowed Graduate Fellowship Award
  • Link Lab Outstanding Graduate Research Award

Tamjid Al Rahat

PhD Alumni, now Applied Scientist at AWS

  • Best Paper Award, IEEE TPS2022
  • Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2023 Finalist
  • Google Vulnerability Research Grant2022
  • Google Research Paper Rewards2023

Fnu Suya

PhD Alumni, now Assistant Professor at UMD

  • Best Paper Award, VISxAI2022
  • MC2 Postdoctoral Fellow, Maryland Cybersecurity Center2023–2024

Jianfeng Chi

PhD Alumni, now at Meta AI

  • ICLR 2025 Oral Presentation

Service

  • Associate Chair, IEEE S&P (Oakland)2027
  • Program Vice Co-Chair, USENIX Security2025
  • Poster Chair, ACM CCS2022
  • Shadow PC Co-Chair, IEEE S&P (Oakland)2021
  • Co-Chair, IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things2019, 2021
  • Poster Chair, USENIX Security2018
  • TPC Co-Chair, ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things2017
  • IEEE S&P (Oakland)2024, 2025, 2026
  • USENIX Security2025, 2026
  • ACM CCS2025
  • NDSS2025, 2026