Biography

Zhou (Joe) Li, (李洲)
Assistant Professor
University of California, Irvine
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Irvine, CA 92697-2625, USA
Office: 3227 Engineering Hall
Email: zhou.li@uci.edu
My CV.

About openings: I am constantly looking for self-motivated PhD students and PostDoc researchers who have strong interests in system security and privacy. Visitors are also welcome. If you are interested, send me an email and please specify how your prior experiences relate to my research areas. Due to the volume of inquiries, my apology if you don’t receive my reply. 

News

– January 2024: Welcome Fenglu Zhang from Tsinghua University to join DSP lab as a visiting scholar!
– December 2023:
My PhD student Joann Chen is on job market! She’s primarily looking for academic positions. Please reach out to her!
– September 2023:
One paper accepted by ACSAC’23.
– September 2023:
Invited to serve The Web Conf’24 program committee.
– August 2023:
One paper accepted by Usenix Security’24.

Professional Bio

I am a tenure-track assistant professor in the department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science of University of California, Irvine. My research focus is system security.

Project Websites

Recent Research Areas & Interests

  • Domain Name System (DNS)
    • Protocol security [Security’18][CoNext’19][FOCI’20][NDSS’23][Security’23a]
    • Measurement [IMC’19][NDSS’21][SRDS’21]
    • Malicious domain detection [DSN’15][CCS’17]
    • Domain fraud [Security’14][Security’16][EuroS&P’19][SecureComm’18a][DSN’18][SecureComm’19]
  • Graph Security analytics (GSA)
    • Graph Neural Network (GNN) based anomaly detection  [Security’23b]
    • Efficient attack provenance  [Security’21]
    • Detection with web proxy logs [DSN’15][SecDev’16][ACSAC’16][ACSAC’18a]
    • Detection with end-host logs [RAID’17]
  • Privacy Enhancement Technologies (PETs)
    • Application of differential privacy (DP) [EuroSP’22]
    • Data stream DP [CCS’21a]
  • Security and privacy for machine learning
    • Model extraction attacks with side-channel [DSN’20][TIFS’21][ACSAC’22]
    • Data extraction [ACSAC’21a]
    • Adversarial perturbation [IJCAI’20][TDSC’22][DSN’23]
    • Education [EAAI’23]

Other Areas & Interests

  • Mobile security
    • Permissions [RAID’19][S&P’21a][CCS’21b]
    • Payment [Security’17][ACSAC’18b]
    • Obfuscation [SecureComm’18a]
    • Interrupts [S&P’16]
  • IoT security
    • Traffic analysis [AsiaCCS’20]
    • Bluetooth [NDSS’19]
    • Wearable [CCS’15]
  • Other side-channel analysis
    • Web applications [CCS’10][TWC’14]
    • I/O and CPU [S&P’21b][S&P’22]
    • GPU [PETS’17]

Experience & Education

2018-, Assistant Professor at UCI EECS
2013-2018, Principal Research Scientist at RSA Laboratories
2011, Research Intern at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, Mentor: Yinglian Xie and Fang Yu
2014, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Indiana University Bloomington, Advisor: XiaoFeng Wang
2008, M.Sc. in Computer Science, Wuhan University, China
2006, B.Sc. in Computer Science, Wuhan University, China

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