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Cyber Security Laboratory @ CQU

Prof. Tao Xiang

College of Computer Science, Chongqing University
174# Shazheng Street, Shapingba District, Chongqing 400044, China
Email: txiang@cqu.edu.cn

Biography

Prof. Xiang received the B.Eng., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Chongqing University, China, in 2003, 2005, and 2008, respectively. He is currently a Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Computer Science at Chongqing University.

Research Interests

My current research interests are mainly in the following areas:

  • Cloud Security
  • Network Security
  • Blockchain
  • Privacy
  • Distributed Machine Learning and Its Security
  • Cryptography
  • ……
📢 I am looking for self-motivated Ph.D students, research assistants, and post-doctors who have background and interests in the above research topics. Please send me an email with your CV if you are interested.

Professional Experience

  • Nov 2018–Now: Associate Dean, College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, China
  • Sep 2014–Now Professor, College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, China
  • Apr 2010–Apr 2011: Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Science, University of Mas- sachusetts Lowell, United States
  • Sep 2010–Aug 2014: Associate Professor, College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, China
  • Jul 2009–Oct 2009: Senior Research Associate, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • Jan 2008–Mar 2008: Senior Research Associate, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • Aug 2007–Oct 2007: Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • Jun 2006–Dec 2006: Senior Research Associate, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • Sep 2006–Aug 2010: Assistant Professor, College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, China

Academic Awards and Honors

  • 2022 Science and Technology Progress Award (First Prize), Chongqing
  • 2021 Natural Science Award (Second Prize), Chinese Institute of Electronics
  • 2021 Innovative Leading Talents in Chongqing, Chongqing
  • 2021 Best Paper Award, International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data (DMB- D2021)
  • 2021 Best Paper Award, International Conference on Provable and Practical Security (ProvSec2021)
  • 2020 Chongqing Natural Science Award (First Prize), Chongqing
  • 2020 Outstanding Reviewers, Information Sciences
  • 2019 Distinguished Young Scholars of Chongqing, Chongqing
  • 2018 Best Paper Award, International Conference on Algorithms, Systems, and Applications of Wireless Network (WASA2018)
  • 2015 Outstanding Reviewers, Journal of Information Security and Applications
  • 2015 Top 20 Articles in the Domain of Image Encryption in 2007-2015 (Top 1), BioMedLib
  • 2013 Chongqing Natural Science Award (Second Prize), Chongqing
  • 2013 New Century Excellent Talents in University, Ministry of Education of China
  • 2009 Chongqing Natural Science Award (Second Prize), Chongqing

Professional Societies

  • Deputy Secretary-General, ACM Chongqing Chapter
  • Vice Chairman, Circuits and Systems Society of Chinese Institute of Electronics
  • Standing Committee Member, Privacy Protection Technical Committee of China Con- fidentiality Association
  • Senior Member, China Computer Federation (CCF)
  • Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Member, Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE)
  • Member, Chinese Association for Cryptologic Research (CACR)
  • Program Committee Member of over 40 international conferences, such as
    • IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)
    • IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
    • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
    • IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)
    • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
    • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
    • International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS)
    • International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)

Professional Activities

Editorships and Memberships

Serves as an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member of the following journals:

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2021–
  • Associate Editor, Chinese Journal of Network and Information Security, 2018–
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Chaos, 2013–2016
  • Editorial Board Member, Current Chinese Science, 2020–
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Information Security, 2013–2018
  • Editorial Board Member, Wireless and Communication Letters, 2016–2020
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Computer Applications, 2014–2019
  • Editorial Board Member, Computer Engineering and Science, 2015–2018
  • Guest Editor, Recent Advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing, 2021
  • Guest Editor, Symmetric/Asymmetric Cryptography: Topics and Applications, 2020

Paper Reviewing

An active reviewer for over 40 international journals, such as

  • IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

As a reviewer for over 50 international conferences, such as

  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
  • IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
  • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
  • International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations (MobiHoc)
  • Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
  • IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
  • IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
  • ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM)

Selected Grants

  • [2021–2024] Blockchain-based Controllable Security and Privacy Protection on Medical Big Data in Smart Healthcare, Natural Science Foundation Project of China, U20A20176, 2,600K CNY
  • [2021–2024] Deep Learning Based No-Reference Image Visual Security Evaluation, Natural Science Foundation Project of China, 62072062, 560K CNY
  • [2020–2024] Research on Privacy Protection in the Sharing and Exchange of Big Data of Mobile Social Media, Natural Science Foundation Project of China, 61932006, 2,990K CNY
  • [2019–2022] The Security of Deep Learning Model against Adversarial Attacks, Program for Distinguished Young Scholars of Chongqing, CSTC2019JCYJJGX0026, 500K CNY
  • [2017–2021] New Cryptographic Algorithms on Data Protection, National Key R&D Program of China, 2017YFB0802000, 20,910K CNY
  • [2017–2020] Research on GM-based Key Technologies of Service Authentication and Proof, National Key R&D Program of China, 2017YFB0802400, 21,860K CNY
  • [2017–2020] Privacy-preserving Image Big Data Retrieval in the Cloud, Natural Science Foundation Project of China, 61672118, 630K CNY
  • [2013–2017] Smartphone Security in Cloud Environment, Natural Science Foundation Project of Chongqing, CSTC2013JCYJA40001, 30K, CNY
  • [2013–2015] New Image Security Techniques for Limited Network Environments, Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, NCET-12-0589, 500K CNY
  • [2012–2014] Research on Image Security of Energy and QoS Sensitive in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks, Natural Science Foundation Project of China, 61103211, 250K CNY

Publications

I have published over 150 papers in international journals/conferences, among which over 50 papers were published in high impact prestigious international journals such as IEEE TCC, TIT, TC, TIFS, TPDS, TMM, TCSVT, TCC, TSC, IoTJ, ACM CSUR, etc, and top-tier conferences such as INFOCOM, MM, IJCAI, SIGKDD, ICDE, ICME, ASIACCS, etc. A complete list can be found in Google Scholar.

Selected Journal Papers

  1. Chenglu Jin, Zheng Yang, Tao Xiang, Sridhar Adepu, Jianying Zhou, HMACCE: Establishing Authenticated and Confidential Channel from Historical Data for Industrial Internet of Things, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, Accepted
  2. Zewei Liu, Chunqiang Hu, Ruinian Li, Tao Xiang, Xingwang Li, Jiguo Yu, Hui Xia, A Privacy-Preserving Outsourcing Computing Scheme Based on Secure Trusted Environment, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2022.3201401
  3. Fei Chen, Zhipeng Li, Changkun Jiang, Tao Xiang, Yuanyuan Yang, Cloud Object Storage Synchronization: Design, Analysis, and Implementation, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2022.3185067
  4. Bin Xie, Tao Xiang, Xiaofeng Liao, Jiahui Wu, Achieving Privacy-Preserving Online Diagnosis with Outsourced SVM in Internet of Medical Things Environment, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2021.3119897
  5. Fei Chen, Zixing Xiao, Tao Xiang, Junfeng Fan, Hong-Linh Truong, A Full Lifecycle Authentication Scheme for Large-scale Smart IoT Applications, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2022.3178115
  6. Biwen Chen, Honghong Zeng, Tao Xiang, Shangwei Guo, Tianwei Zhang, Yang Liu, ESB-FL: Efficient Blockchain-Based Federated Learning with Fair Payment, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, DOI: 10.1109/TBDATA.2022.3177170
  7. Xiaoguo Li, Tao Xiang, Yi Mu, Fuchun Guo, Zhongyuan Yao, C-Wall: Conflict-Resistance in Privacy-Preserving Cloud Storage, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2022.3171772
  8. Tao Xiang, Honghong Zeng, Biwen Chen, Shangwei Guo, BMIF: Privacy-Preserving Blockchain-Based Medical Image Fusion, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, DOI: 10.1145/3531016
  9. Pengfei Guo, Hantao Liu, Delu Zeng, Tao Xiang, Leida Li, Ke Gu, An Underwater Image Quality Assessment Metric, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2022.3187212
  10. Tao Xiang, Hangcheng Liu, Shangwei Guo, Yan Gan, Xiaofeng Liao, EGM: An Efficient Generative Model for Unrestricted Adversarial Examples, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, DOI: 10.1145/3511893
  11. Yiran Li, Hongwei Li, Guowen Xu, Tao Xiang, Practical Privacy-Preserving Federated Learn- ing in Vehicular Fog Computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2022, 71 (5): 4692-4705
  12. Shangwei Guo, Tianwei Zhang, Han Yu, Xiaofei Xie, Lei Ma, Tao Xiang, Yang Liu, Byzantine-resilient Decentralized Stochastic Gradient Descent, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Sys- tems for Video Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2021.3116976
  13. Dong Li, Jiahui Wu, Junqing Le, Shangqian Li, Xiaofeng Liao, Tao Xiang, A Novel Privacy-Preserving Location-Based Services Search Scheme in Outsourced Cloud, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2021.3098420
  14. Xiaoguo Li, Tao Xiang, Shangwei Guo, Hongwei Li, Yi Mu, Privacy-Preserving Reverse Nearest Neighbor Query over Encrypted Spatial Data, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2021.3065356
  15. Ning Wang, Weiwei Li, Long Jiao, Amir Alipour-Fanid, Tao Xiang, Kai Zeng, Orientation and Channel Independent RF Fingerprinting for 5G IEEE 802.11ad Devices, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3119319
  16. Shangwei Guo, Tianwei Zhang, Guowen Xu, Han Yu, Tao Xiang, Yang Liu, Topology-aware Differential Privacy for Decentralized Image Classification, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2021.3105723
  17. Qingguo Lv, Xiaofeng Liao, Tao Xiang, Huaqing Li, Tingwen Huang, Privacy Masking S- tochastic Subgradient-Push Algorithm for Distributed Online Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2021, 51 (6): 3224-3237
  18. Fei Chen, Duming Luo, Tao Xiang, Ping Chen, Junfeng Fan, Hong-Linh Truong, IoT Cloud Security Review: A Case Study Approach Using Emerging Consumer-Oriented Applications, ACM Computing Surveys, 2021, 54 (4): 75
  19. Ying Yang, Tao Xiang, Hangcheng Liu, Xiaofeng Liao, Convolutional Neural Network for Visual Security Evaluation, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2021, 31 (8): 3293-3307
  20. Biwen Chen, Tao Xiang, Mimi Ma, Debiao He, Xiaofeng Liao, CL-ME: Efficient Certificateless Matchmaking Encryption for Internet of Things, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021, 8 (19): 15010-15023
  21. Peng Wang, Tao Xiang, Xiaoguo Li, Hong Xiang, Access Control Encryption without Sanitizers for Internet of Energy, Information Sciences, 2021, 546: 924-942
  22. Yiran Li, Hongwei Li, Guowen Xu, Tao Xiang, Xiaoming Huang, Rongxing Lu, Toward Secure and Privacy-Preserving Distributed Deep Learning in Fog-Cloud Computing, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020, 7 (12): 11460-11472
  23. Tao Xiang, Ying Yang, Hangcheng Liu, Shangwei Guo, Visual Security Evaluation of Perceptually Encrypted Images Based on Image Importance, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2020, 30 (11): 4129-4142
  24. Chunqiang Hu, Yuwen Pu, Feihong Yang, Ruifeng Zhao, Arwa Alrawai, Tao Xiang, Secure and Efficient Data Collection and Storage of IoT in Smart Ocean, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020, 7 (10): 9980-9994
  25. Yuwen Pu, Tao Xiang, Chunqiang Hu, Arwa Alrawais, Hongyang Yan, An Efficient Blockchain-Based Privacy Preserving Scheme for Vehicular Social Networks, Information Sciences, 2020, 540: 308-324
  26. Fei Chen, Fengming Meng, Tao Xiang, Hua Dai, Jianqiang Li, Jing Qin, Towards Usable Cloud Storage Auditing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2020, 31 (11): 2605-2617
  27. Dong Li, Xiaofeng Liao, Tao Xiang, Jiahui Wu, Junqing Le, Privacy-Preserving Self-Serviced Medical Diagnosis Scheme Based on Secure Multi-Party Computation, Computers & Security, 2020, 90: 101701
  28. Tao Xiang, Ying Yang, Shangwei Guo, Blind Night-Time Image Quality Assessment: Subjective and Objective Approaches, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2020, 22 (5): 1259-1272
  29. Shangwei Guo, Tao Xiang, Xiaoguo Li, Ying Yang, PEID: A Perceptually Encrypted Image Database for Visual Security Evaluation, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, 2020, 15 (1): 1151-1163
  30. Fei Chen, Tao Xiang, Xinwen Fu, Wei Yu, User Differentiated Verifiable File Search on the Cloud, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, 2018, 11 (6): 948-961
  31. Xiaoguo Li, Tao Xiang, Fei Chen, Shangwei Guo, Efficient Biometric Identity-Based Encryption, Information Sciences, 2018, 465: 248-264
  32. Tao Xiang, Xiaoguo Li, Fei Chen, Yuanyuan Yang, Shengyu Zhang, Achieving Verifiable, Dynamic and Efficient Auditing for Outsourced Database in Cloud, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2018, 112: 97-107
  33. Chunqiang Hu, Hongjuan Li, Yan Huo, Tao Xiang, Xiaofeng Liao, Secure and Efficient Data Communication Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks, IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems, 2016, 2 (2): 94-107
  34. Fei Chen, Tao Xiang, Yuanyuan Yang, Sherman S. M. Chow. Secure Cloud Storage Meets with Secure Network Coding, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2016, 65 (6): 1936-1948
  35. Tao Xiang, Shangwei Guo, Xiaoguo Li, Perceptual Visual Security Index Based on Edge and Texture Similarities, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, 2016, 11 (5): 951-963
  36. Tao Xiang, Xiaoguo Li, Fei Chen, Shangwei Guo, Yuanyuan Yang, Processing Secure, Verifiable and Efficient SQL over Outsourced Database, Information Sciences, 2016, 348: 163-178
  37. Fei Chen, Tao Xiang, Xinyu Lei, Jianyong Chen, Highly Efficient Linear Regression Outsourcing to a Cloud, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2014, 2 (4): 499-508
  38. Fei Chen, Tao Xiang, Yuanyuan Yang, Privacy-Preserving and Verifiable Protocols for Scientific Computation Outsourcing to the Cloud, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2014, 74 (3): 2141-2151
  39. Fei Chen, Kwok-wo Wong, Xiaofeng Liao, Tao Xiang, Period Distribution of the Generalized Discrete Arnold Cat Map for N = 2e, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2013, 59 (5): 3249-3255
  40. Fei Chen, Kwok-wo Wong, Xiaofeng Liao, Tao Xiang, Period Distribution of Generalized Discrete Arnold Cat Map for N = pe, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2012, 58 (1): 445-452

Selected Conference Papers

  1. Fei Chen, Jiahao Wang, Changkun Jiang, Tao Xiang, Yuanyuan Yang, Blockchain Based Non-repudiable IoT Data Trading: Simpler, Faster, and Cheaper, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2022
  2. Tao Xiang, Hangcheng Liu, Shangwei Guo, Hantao Liu, Tianwei Zhang, Text’s Armor: Optimized Local Adversarial Perturbation Against Scene Text Editing Attacks, ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM), 2022
  3. Tao Xiang, Ying Yang, Shangwei Guo, Hangcheng Liu, Hantao Liu, PRNet: A Progressive Recovery Network for Revealing Perceptually Encrypted Images, *ACM International Confeence on Multimedia (MM), 2021
  4. Junyin Zhang, Yongxin Ge, Xinqian Gu, Boyu Hua, Tao Xiang, Self-Supervised Pre-training on the Target Domain for Cross-Domain Person Re-identification, ACM International Confer- ence on Multimedia (MM), 2021
  5. Lei Feng, Senlin Shu, Yuzhou Cao, Lue Tao, Hongxin Wei, Tao Xiang, Bo An, Gang Niu, Multiple-Instance Learning from Similar and Dissimilar Bags, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), 2021
  6. Shangwei Guo, Tianwei Zhang, Han Qiu, Yi Zeng, Tao Xiang, Yang Liu, Fine-tuning Is Not Enough: A Simple yet Effective Watermark Removal Attack for DNN Models, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2021
  7. Yan Gan, Tao Xiang, Hangcheng Liu, Mao Ye, Dan Liu, Teacher-supervised Generative Adversarial Networks, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2021
  8. Xuekai Wei, Mingliang Zhou, Sam Kwong, Hui Yuan, Tao Xiang, QoE-based Neural Live Streaming Method With Continuous Dynamic Adaptive Video Quality Control, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2021
  9. Zhongming Wang, Biwen Chen, Tao Xiang, Lu Zhou, Hongyang Yan, Jin Li, Public Key Based Searchable Encryption with Fine-Grained Sender Permission Control, International Conference on Provable and Practical Security (ProvSec), 2021
  10. Biwen Chen, Zhongming Wang, Tao Xiang, Lei Yang, Hongyang Yan, Jin Li, ABAC: Anonymous Bilateral Access Control Protocol with Traceability for Fog-Assisted Mobile Crowd- sensing, International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data (DMBD), 2021
  11. Yan Gan, Tao Xiang, Mao Ye, Squeeze Criterion GANs: Double Adversarial Learning Method, International Conference on Machine Learning for Cyber Security (ML4CS), 2020: 479-493
  12. Shangwei Guo, Jianliang Xu, Ce Zhang, Cheng Xu, Tao Xiang, ImageProof: Enabling Authentication for Large-Scale Image Retrieval, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Macau, China, 2019
  13. Xue Qin, Tao Xiang, Ying Yang, Pair-Comparing Based Convolutional Neural Network for Blind Image Quality Assessment, International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN), Moscow, Russia, 2019: 460-468
  14. Lei Zhou, Liang Feng, Kai Liu, Chao Chen, Shaojiang Deng, Tao Xiang, Jiang Siwei, Towards Effective Mutation for Knowledge Transfer in Multifactorial Differential Evolution, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Wellington, New Zealand, 2019
  15. Chunqiang Hu, Jin Luo, Yuwen Pu, Jiguo Yu, Ruifeng Zhao, Hongyu Huang, Tao Xiang, An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation Scheme for IoT, International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), Guilin, China, 2018: 164-176
  16. Tao Xiang, Xiaoguo Li, Fei Chen, Yi Mu, Bilateral-secure Signature by Key Evolving, ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Xian, China, 2016
  17. Fei Chen, Tao Xiang, Yuanyuan Yang, Cong Wang, Shengyu Zhang, Secure Cloud Storage Hits Distributed String Equality Checking: More Efficient, Conceptually Simpler, and Prov- ably Secure, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Hong Kong, China, 2015
  18. Fei Chen, Tao Xiang, Xinwen Fu, Wei Yu, Towards Verifiable File Search on the Cloud, IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2014: 346-354
  19. Tao Xiang, Weimin Zhang, Fei Chen, A Verifiable PSO Algorithm in Cloud Computing, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Beijing, China, 2014: 190-193
  20. Fei Chen, Tao Xiang, Yuanyuan Yang, Sherman S. M. Chow, Secure Cloud Storage Meets with Secure Network Coding, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Toronto, Canada, 2014: 673-681
  21. Tao Xiang, Jun Wang, Xiaofeng Liao, An Improved Particle Swarm Optimizer with Momentum, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Singapore, Sep 25-28, 2007, 3341-3345