Dr Yanjun Zhang
Honorary Research Fellow
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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An Industrial Internet of Things Testbed for Secure Digital Agriculture UQ Cyber Seed Funding |
2021–2022 |
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Privacy preserving federated deep learning for medical imaging UQ Cyber Seed Funding |
2021–2022 |
Book Chapter
Bean, Richard, Zhang, Yanjun, Ko, Ryan K. L., Mao, Xinyu and Bai, Guangdong (2023). Preserving the privacy and cybersecurity of home energy data. Emerging trends in cybersecurity applications. (pp. 323-343) edited by Kevin Daimi, Abeer Alsadoon, Cathryn Peoples and Nour El Madhoun. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-09640-2_14
Journal Articles
Gong, Zirui, Shen, Liyue, Zhang, Yanjun, Zhang, Leo Yu, Wang, Jingwei, Bai, Guangdong and Xiang, Yong (2024). AgrAmplifier: defending federated learning against poisoning attacks through local update amplification. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 19, 1241-1250. doi: 10.1109/TIFS.2023.3333555
Wang, Shunyao, Ko, Ryan K. L., Bai, Guangdong, Dong, Naipeng, Choi, Taejun and Zhang, Yanjun (2023). Evasion attack and defense on machine learning models in cyber-physical systems: a survey. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 26 (2), 930-966. doi: 10.1109/comst.2023.3344808
Feng, Xinguo, Zhang, Yanjun, Meng, Mark Huasong, Li, Yansong, Eu Joe, Chegne, Wang, Zhe and Bai, Guangdong (2023). Detecting contradictions from IoT protocol specification documents based on neural generated knowledge graph. ISA Transactions, 141, 10-19. doi: 10.1016/j.isatra.2023.04.025
Wang, Kailong, Ling, Yuxi, Zhang, Yanjun, Yu, Zhou, Wang, Haoyu, Bai, Guangdong, Ooi, Beng Chin and Dong, Jin Song (2023). Characterizing cryptocurrency-themed malicious browser extensions. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 51 (1), 91-92. doi: 10.1145/3606376.3593529
Wang, Kailong, Ling, Yuxi, Zhang, Yanjun, Yu, Zhou, Wang, Haoyu, Bai, Guangdong, Ooi, Beng Chin and Dong, Jin Song (2022). Characterizing cryptocurrency-themed malicious browser extensions. Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, 6 (3) 43, 1-31. doi: 10.1145/3570603
Zhang, Yanjun, Bai, Guangdong, Li, Xue, Nepal, Surya, Grobler, Marthie, Chen, Chen and Ko, Ryan K. L. (2022). Preserving privacy for distributed genome-wide analysis against identity tracing attacks. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 20 (4), 1-17. doi: 10.1109/tdsc.2022.3186672
Zhang, Yanjun, Bai, Guangdong, Zhong, Mingyang, Li, Xue and Ko, Ryan K. L. (2020). Differentially private collaborative coupling learning for recommender systems. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 36 (1) 9130104, 1-1. doi: 10.1109/MIS.2020.3005930
Huang, Zhengxiang, Huang, Lili, Wang, Chengjian, Zhu, Shanli, Qi, Xinzhou, Chen, Yang, Zhang, Yanjun, Cowley, Michael, Veldhuis, Johannes D and Chen, Chen (2020). Dapagliflozin restores insulin and growth hormone secretion in obese mice. Journal of Endocrinology, 245 (1), 1-12. doi: 10.1530/JOE-19-0385
Conference Papers
Zhang, Yanjun, Sun, Ruoxi, Shen, Liyue, Bai, Guangdong, Xue, Minhui, Meng, Mark Huasong, Li, Xue, Ko, Ryan and Nepal, Surya (2024). Privacy-preserving and fairness-aware federated learning for critical infrastructure protection and resilience. WWW '24: ACM Web Conference 2024, Singapore, Singapore, 13-17 May 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3589334.3645545
Xie, Fuman, Yan, Chuan, Meng, Mark Huasong, Teng, Shaoming, Zhang, Yanjun and Bai, Guangdong (2024). Are your requests your true needs? Checking excessive data collection in VPA App. ICSE '24: IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, 14-20 April 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3597503.3639107
Zhang, Xiaomei, Zhang, Zhaoxi, Zhong, Qi, Zheng, Xufei, Zhang, Yanjun, Hu, Shengshan and Zhang, Leo Yu (2023). Masked language model based textual adversarial example detection. 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 10-14 July 2023. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3579856.3590339
Ma, Mengyao, Zhang, Yanjun, Arachchige, Pathum Chamikara Mahawaga, Zhang, Leo Yu, Chhetri, Mohan Baruwal and Bai, Guangdong (2023). LoDen: making every client in federated learning a defender against the poisoning membership inference attacks. 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 10-14 July 2023. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3579856.3590334
Chen, Baiqi, Wu, Tingmin, Zhang, Yanjun, Chhetri, Mohan Baruwal and Bai, Guangdong (2023). Investigating users’ understanding of privacy policies of virtual personal assistant applications. 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 10-14 July 2023. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3579856.3590335
Wang, Kailong, Ling, Yuxi, Zhang, Yanjun, Yu, Zhou, Wang, Haoyu, Bai, Guangdong, Ooi, Beng Chin and Dong, Jin Song (2023). Characterizing cryptocurrency-themed malicious browser extensions. SIGMETRICS '23: ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Orlando, FL, United States, 19 - 23 June 2023. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3578338.3593529
Zhang, Yanjun, Bai, Guangdong, Chamikara, Mahawaga Arachchige Pathum, Ma, Mengyao, Shen, Liyue, Wang, Jingwei, Nepal, Surya, Xue, Minhui, Wang, Long and Liu, Joseph (2023). AgrEvader: poisoning membership inference against Byzantine-robust federated learning. WWW '23: ACM Web Conference 2023, Austin, TX, United States, 30 April - 4 May 2023. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3543507.3583542
Shen, Liyue, Zhang, Yanjun, Wang, Jingwei and Bai, Guangdong (2022). Better together: attaining the triad of Byzantine-robust federated learning via local update amplification. 38th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, Austin, TX, United States, 5-9 December 2022. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3564625.3564658
Wan, Liuhuo, Zhang, Yanjun, Li, Ruiqing, Ko, Ryan, Hoffman, Louw and Bai, Guangdong (2022). SATB: A Testbed of IoT-Based Smart Agriculture Network for Dataset Generation. 18th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2022), Brisbane, QLD Australia, 28–30 November 2022. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-22064-7_11
Xie, Fuman, Zhang, Yanjun, Yan, Chuan, Li, Suwan, Bu, Lei, Chen, Kai, Huang, Zi and Bai, Guangdong (2022). Scrutinizing Privacy Policy Compliance of Virtual Personal Assistant Apps. ASE '22: 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Rochester, MI United States, 10 - 14 October 2022. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3551349.3560416
Zhang, Chenhao, Zhang, Yanjun, Mao, Jeff, Chen, Weitong, Yue, Lin, Bai, Guangdong and Xu, Miao (2022). Towards better generalization for neural network-based SAT solvers. 26th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2022, Chengdu, China, 16-19 May 2022. CHAM: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-05936-0_16
Xie, Fuman, Zhang, Yanjun, Wei, Hanlin and Bai, Guangdong (2022). UQ-AAS21: A comprehensive dataset of Amazon Alexa skills. 17th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining Applications (ADMA), Online, 2-4 February, 2022. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-95405-5_12
Zhang, Yanjun, Bai, Guangdong, Li, Xue, Curtis, Caitlin, Chen, Chen and Ko, Ryan K. L. (2021). Privacy-preserving gradient descent for distributed genome-wide analysis. ESORICS 2021 - 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Darmstadt, Germany, 4–8 October, 2021. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-88428-4_20
Zhang, Yanjun, Bai, Guangdong, Li, Xue, Curtis, Caitlin, Chen, Chen and Ko, Ryan K. L. (2020). PrivColl: practical privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning. European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Guildford, United Kingdom, 14-18 September 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58951-6_20
Zhang, Yanjun, Zhao, Xin, Li, Xue, Zhong, Mingyang, Curtis, Caitlin and Chen, Chen (2019). Enabling privacy-preserving sharing of genomic data for GWASs in decentralized networks. Twelfth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 11-15 February 2019. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3289600.3290983
Ibrahim, Ibrahim A., Li, Xue, Zhao, Xin, Maskari, Sanad Al, Albarrak, Abdullah M. and Zhang, Yanjun (2018). Automated explanations of user-expected trends for aggregate queries. Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3-6 June 2018. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-93034-3_48
Thesis
Zhang, Yanjun (2021). Privacy-preserving sharing for genome-wide analysis. PhD Thesis, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/bfae8f8