I am a Senior Lecturer (Equiv. to Associate Professor in North America) in Cyber Security & Software Systems with School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University. My current research interests include System Privacy and Security, Distributed Systems, Edge and Cloud Computing, and Sustainable Computing. I am a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM. I also serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), as well as a Review Board Member of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).
I am actively looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students with interests in system security and privacy, and distributed ML systems. If you are interested, please send me an email with your CV, transcript and research experience (e.g. minor thesis, publication, etc.) at any time. Visiting scholars and students as well as industry partners are welcomed.
News
[Jul. 2026] Ziqi Wang and Jian Tang have been funded by AWS RMAS program. Congrats, Ziqi and Jian!
[Jun. 2026] I am invited to serve as the PC member for USENIX Security'27.
[Jun. 2026] Our paper MERA has been accepted by TKDE'26. Congrats, Ziqi!
[Jun. 2026] I am invited to serve as an Artifact Evaluation Committee member for NDSS'27.
[Apr./Jan. 2026] Our paper WinFLoRA has been accepted as an oral paper by WWW'26. Congrats, Mengsha!
[Feb. 2026] Our paper DFA has been accepted by TIFS. Congrats, Mengsha!
[Dec. 2025] I am invited to serve as a publicity chair for IEEE Service Congress'26.
[Nov. 2025] Our paper KGEES has been accepted by TDSC. Congrats, Ziqi!
[Nov. 2025] I am invited to serve as a committee member of ISOC Fellowship Review Committee for NDSS'26.
[Nov. 2025] Our paper MoSEEC has been accepted by TMC. Congrats, Ziqi!
[Nov. 2025] I have received the RMIT Early Career Researcher Award for Research Excellence!
[Sep. 2025] I am invited to serve as the PC member for WWW'26.
[Sep. 2025] I am again named in the World’s Top 2% Scientists list for Distributed Computing.
[Sep. 2025] Our TPDS'23 paper CHEESE was selected for the IEEE Communications Society Best Readings in Privacy Preservation for Machine Learning!
[Aug. 2025] I am invited to serve as the PC member for PoPETS/PETS'26.
[Jul. 2025] Our paper has been accepted by RAID'25. Congrats, Jiachen!
[May. 2025] I am invited to serve as the PC member for RAID'25.
[Dec. 2024] Our Discovery Project has been approved by the Australian Research Council!
[Sep. 2024] I am again named in the World’s Top 2% Scientists list for Distributed Computing.
[Sep. 2024] Our paper has been accepted by IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland)'25.
[Aug. 2024] I am invited to serve as the PC member for ACM The Web Conference (WWW)'25.
[Aug. 2024] Our paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
[Feb. 2024] Our paper has been accepted as an oral paper by ACM The Web Conference (WWW)'24. Congrats, Ziqi!
Awards
RMIT Early Career Researcher Award for Research Excellence, RMIT, 2025
World's Top 2% Scientists, Stanford/Elsevier, 2022-Now
Alfred Deakin Medal, Deakin University, 2021
Teaching Excellence Award, Swinburne University of Technology, 2021
Postgraduate Research Award, Deakin University, 2021
Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Deakin University, 2018-21
Funded Projects
Chief Investigator, privacy-aware intelligent digital twin for secure critical infrastructures, ARC Discovery Project (DP250100582, $506,636.00), Australia, 2025-27.
Partnership Investigator, empowering Vietnames shrimp farming with AIoT for climate-resilient disease management, Vietnam Thematic Research Grant (VND 452,154,470.00), 2026-2027.
Chief Investigator, Med-Safe App, RMIT Blue Sky Scheme ($20,000), 2025.
Lead Chief Investigator, optimizing collaborative learning at the constrained edge with privacy awareness, CSIRO-RMIT Research Masters Project, Australia, 2024-25.
Lead Chief Investigator, enabling machine unlearning on resource-constrained devices, CCSRI SEED Funding, RMIT Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation, Australia, 2024.
Chief Investigator, empowering female Cybersecurity leaders: bridging the gender gap in Cybersecurity Education (0000000051), Advance HE Global Impact Grants, United Kingdom, 2023-24.
Lead Chief Investigator, cost-effective and secure data management in edge computing, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, 2022.
