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[Aug 2026] A paper about LLM distillation was accepted to EMNLP 2026.
[Apr 2026] A paper about backdoor forgetting in LLMs was accepted to ACL 2026.
[Feb 2026] A paper about out-of-distribution detection was accepted to WWW 2026.
[Jan 2026] A paper about graph rewiring for bot detection was accepted to ICASSP 2026.
[Jan 2026] A paper about heterophilic graph learning was accepted to ICASSP 2026.
[Jan 2026] A paper about optimization-resilient binary vulnerability detection was accepted to JSA 2026.
[Jan 2026] A paper about training-efficient vulnerability detection was accepted to ASE 2026.
[Nov 2025] A paper about text-guided image synthesis was accepted to CVIU 2025.
[Oct 2025] A paper about retrieval-augmented latent diffusion was accepted to IEEE BigData 2025.
[Aug 2025] A paper about extreme event prediction was accepted to ICDM 2025.
[Jun 2025] A paper about multi-modal vulnerability detection was accepted to Information Fusion 2025.
[Jun 2025] A paper received COLA 2024 Best Paper Award.
[May 2025] Received Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence: Early Career Achievement.
[Apr 2025] Received CECS Early Career Achievement Award.
[Apr 2025] A paper about code similarity analysis was accepted to IST 2025.
[Jan 2025] A paper about cost-efficient vulnerability detection was accepted to JSS 2025.
[Dec 2024] A paper about FEA automation using LLMs and GNNs was accepted to AAAI 2025.
[Nov 2024] A paper about chatbots for interventions in autism was accepted to EAIT 2024.
[Oct 2024] A paper about using LLMs to enhance few-shot GNNs was accepted to IEEE BigData 2024.
[Oct 2024] A paper about phishing detection using LLMs was accepted to AAAI 2025 (Student Abstract).
[Sep 2024] A paper about graph-based fraud detection was accepted to ACML 2024.
[Aug 2024] A paper about dual-reasoning LLMs was accepted to ICONIP 2024.
[Aug 2024] A paper about cross-modal adversarial reprogramming for vulnerability detection was accepted to Information Sciences 2024.
[Apr 2024] Two papers were accepted to EMBS 2024.
[Mar 2024] Nominated as CECS Outstanding Overall Faculty Award.
[Mar 2024] A paper about energy-based bot detection was accepted to DASFAA 2024.
[Mar 2024] A paper about addressing heterophily for GNNs was accepted to DASFAA 2024.
[Mar 2024] A paper about class-imbalanced fraud detection was accepted to IJCNN 2024.
[Dec 2023] Served on NSF Panel.
[Dec 2023] A paper about enhancing CV interpretability was accepted to Sensors 2023.
[Oct 2023] A paper about fooling AI explanations was accepted to EMNLP 2023.
[Sep 2023] A paper about vulnerability detection was accepted to ESWA 2023.
[Sep 2023] A paper about few-shot node classification was accepted to ICDM 2023.
[Aug 2023] A paper about class-imbalanced bot detection was accepted to CIKM 2023.
[Jul 2023] A paper about adversary for social good was accepted to TKDD 2023.
[Mar 2023] My CRII proposal was funded by NSF. Thank you, NSF!
[Mar 2023] A paper about cross-modal adversarial reprogramming was accepted to WWW 2023.
[Feb 2023] A paper about hierarchical GNN was accepted to PAKDD 2023.
[Dec 2022] A paper about code summarization was accepted to ECIR 2023.
[Oct 2022] Attended DARPA Forward Conference as DARPA Riser for proposal presentation.
[Jul 2022] Our propoed project was funded by TRC/NHTSA.
[Jun 2022] A paper about adversarial attack on GNN was accepted to SecureComm 2022.
[Jun 2022] A paper about reinforcement compiler fuzzing was accepted to ICICS 2022.
[May 2022] Selected as DARPA Riser for DARPA Forward Conference.
[Apr 2022] A paper about code summarization was accepted to IJCNN 2022.
[Apr 2022] A paper about smart contract similarity detection was accepted to SEKE 2022.
[Mar 2022] A paper about few-shot attribute inference was accepted to SIGIR 2022.
[Dec 2021] A paper about adversarial reprogramming for malware detection was accepted to SDM 2022.
[Nov 2021] A paper about compiler fuzzing was accepted to IAAI 2022.
[Aug 2021] A paper about fraud detection was accepted to CIKM 2021.
[Apr 2021] A paper about defense against adversarial attacks was accepted to IJCNN 2021.
[Dec 2020] A paper about adversarial attacks for privacy protection was accepted to SDM 2021.
[Jul 2020] A paper about plagiarism detection of multi-threaded programs received SEKE 2020 Best Paper Award.
[Jun 2020] A paper about robustifying graph convolutional networks was accepted to ECML-PKDD 2020.
[Apr 2020] Two papers about multi-threaded program plagiarism detection and compiler identification respectively were accepted to SEKE 2020.
[Mar 2020] Our proposed project was funded by Seed Grant Award from Center for Security Research and Education (CSRE) at the Pennsylvania State University.