[arXiv 2024] Ruoxi Sun, Jiamin Chang, Hammond Pearce, Chaowei Xiao, Bo Li, Qi Wu, Surya Nepal, and Minhui Xue. Unifying cybersecurity and cybersafety of multimodal foundation models with an information theory approach.
[OzCHI 2024] Ruoxi Sun, Hanwen Wang, Minhui Xue, and Hsiang-Ting Chen. Privacy in motion: Implementing differential privacy for user motion in VR.
[IEEE VR 2024] Ruoxi Sun, Hanwen Wang, Minhui Xue, and Hsiang-Ting Chen. PPVR: A privacy-preserving approach for user behaviors in VR. (CORE A*)
[ESEC/FSE 2023] Ruoxi Sun, Minhui Xue, Gareth Tyson, Tian Dong, Shaofeng Li, Shuo Wang, Haojin Zhu, Seyit Camtepe, and Surya Nepal. Mate! Are you really aware? An explainability-guided testing framework for robustness of malware detectors. (CORE A*, SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award)
[WWW 2023] Ruoxi Sun, Minhui Xue, Gareth Tyson, Seyit Camtepe, and Surya Nepal. Not seen, not heard in the digital world! Measuring privacy practices in children's apps. (CORE A*)
[ICSE 2021] Ruoxi Sun, Wei Wang, Minhui Xue, Gareth Tyson, Seyit Camtepe, and Damith Ranasinghe. An Empirical Assessment of Global COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications. (CORE A*)
[SenSys 2020] Ruoxi Sun, Wei Wang, Minhui Xue, Gareth Tyson, and Damith Ranasinghe. VenueTrace: A Privacy-by-Design COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing Solution. (CORE A*)
[EASE 2020] Ruoxi Sun and Minhui Xue. Quality Assessment of Online Automated Privacy Policy Generators: An Empirical Study. (CORE A)
[CCS 2025] Jiamin Chang, Haoyang Li, Hammond Pearce, Ruoxi Sun, Bo Li, and Minhui Xue. What's pulling the strings? Evaluating integrity and attribution in AI training and inference through concept shift. (CORE A*)
[WWW 2025] Zewei Shi, Ruoxi Sun, Jieshan Chen, Jiamou Sun, Minhui Xue, Yansong Gao, Feng Liu, and Xingliang Yuan. 50 shades of deceptive patterns: A multimodal analysis and detection of internet deception in the wild. (CORE A*)
12. Xiaoyu Xia, Ziqi Wang, Ruoxi Sun, Bowen Liu, Ibrahim Khalil, and Minhui Xue. Edge unlearning is not “on edge”! an adaptive exact unlearning system on resource-constrained devices. In 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P, CORE A*), 2025.
13. Hanrui Wang, Ruoxi Sun, Cunjian Chen, Minhui Xue, Lay-Ki Soon, Shuo Wang, and Zhe Jin. Iterative window mean filter: Thwarting diffusion-based adversarial purification. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC, Q1), 2025.
15. Zehang Deng, Ruoxi Sun, Minhui Xue, Sheng Wen, Seyit Camtepe, Surya Nepal, and Yang Xiang.
Leakage-resilient and carbon-neutral aggregation featuring the federated AI-enabled critical
infrastructure.
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC, Q1), 2025.
16. Zihan Wang, Zhongkui Ma, Xinguo Feng, Ruoxi Sun, Hu Wang, Minhui Xue, and Guangdong Bai.
CORELOCKER:
Neuron-level usage control for AI models. In 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P, CORE
A*), 2024
17. Zewei Shi, Ruoxi Sun, Jieshan Chen, Jiamou Sun, and Minhui Xue. The invisible game on the
Internet:
A
case study of decoding deceptive patterns. In Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW,
CORE A*), 2024
18. Yanjun Zhang, Ruoxi Sun, Liyue Shen, Guangdong Bai, Minhui Xue, Mark Huasong Meng, Xue Li,
Ryan Ko,
and
Surya Nepal. Privacy-preserving and fairness-aware federated learning for critical infrastructure
protection
and resilience. In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW, CORE A*), 2024.
19. Kai Zhang, Yanjun Zhang, Ruoxi Sun, Pei-Wei Tsai, Muneeb Ul Hassan, Xin Yuan, Minhui Xue, and
Jinjun
Chen. Bounded and unbiased composite differential privacy. In 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and
Privacy
(IEEE S&P, CORE A*), 2024.
20. Hongsheng Hu, Shuo Wang, Jiamin Chang, Haonan Zhong, Ruoxi Sun, Shuang Hao, Haojin Zhu, and
Minhui
Xue.
A duty to forget, a right to be assured? Exposing vulnerabilities in machine unlearning services. In the
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS, CORE A*), 2024.
21. Minhui Xue, Surya Nepal, Ling Liu, Subbu Sethuvenkatraman, Xingliang Yuan, Carsten Rudolph, Ruoxi
Sun,
and Greg Eisenhauer. RAI4IoE: Responsible AI for enabling the Internet of Energy. In The Fifth IEEE
International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (IEEE
TPS-ISA), 2024.
22. Shuo Wang, Mahathir Almashor, Alsharif Abuadbba, Ruoxi Sun, Minhui Xue, Calvin Wang, Raj
Gaire,
Seyit
Camtepe, and Surya Nepal. DoITrust: Dissecting on-chain compromised internet domains via graph learning.
In
the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS, CORE A*), 2023.
23. Shuo Wang, Sharif Abuadbba, Sidharth Agarwal, Kristen Moore, Ruoxi Sun, Minhui Xue, Surya
Nepal,
Seyit
Camtepe, and Salil Kanhere. Publiccheck: Public watermarking verification for deep neural networks. In
44th
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P, CORE A*), 2023.
24. Yuxin Cao, Xi Xiao, Ruoxi Sun, Derui Wang, Minhui Xue, and Sheng Wen. Stylefool: Fooling
video
classification systems via style transfer. In 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P,
CORE
A*), 2023.
25. Wanlun Ma, Derui Wang, Ruoxi Sun, Minhui Xue, Sheng Wen, and Yang Xiang. The “Beatrix”
resurrections:
Robust backdoor detection via Gram matrices. In the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
(NDSS,
CORE A*), 2023.
26. Zihan Wang, Olivia Byrnes, Hu Wang, Ruoxi Sun, Congbo Ma, Huaming Chen, Qi Wu, and Minhui
Xue. Data
hiding with deep learning: A survey unifying digital watermarking and steganography. IEEE Transactions
On
Computational Social Systems (IF 4.7), 2023.
27. Pingyi Hu, Zihan Wang, Ruoxi Sun, Hu Wang, and Minhui Xue. M^4I: Multi-modal models
membership
inference. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS, CORE A*), 2022.
28. Chaoran Li, Xiao Chen, Ruoxi Sun, Minhui Xue, Sheng Wen, Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed, Seyit Camtepe,
and
Yang
Xiang, Cross-Language Android Permission Specification, ACM Joint European Software Engineering
Conference
and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE, CORE A*), 2022
29. Kunpeng Zhang, Xi Xiao, Xiaogang Zhu, Ruoxi Sun, Minhui Xue, and Sheng Wen. Path Transitions
Tell
More:
Optimizing Fuzzing Schedules via Runtime Program States. The 44th International Conference on Software
Engineering (ICSE, CORE A*), Technical Track, 2022.
30. Hamish Spencer, Wei Wang, Ruoxi Sun, and Minhui Xue. Dissecting Malware in the Wild.
Australasian
Information Security Conference, 2022. (CORE Best Student Paper Award)
31. Xiaotao Feng, Ruoxi Sun, Xiaogang Zhu, Minhui Xue, Sheng Wen, Dongxi Liu, Surya Nepal, and
Yang
Xiang.
SNIPUZZ: Black-box Fuzzing of IoT Firmware via Message Snippet Inference. The 28th ACM Conference on
Computer and Communications Security (CCS, CORE A*), 2021
32. Matthew Crawford, Wei Wang, Ruoxi Sun, and Minhui Xue. Statically Detecting Adversarial
Malware
through
Randomised Chaining. Australasian Information Security Conference, 2022.
33. Yifan Zhou, Zhengdong Shi, and Ruoxi Sun. Visualization and Attack Prevention for a
Sensor-Based
Agricultural Monitoring System. Australasian Information Security Conference, 2022.
34. Wei Wang, Ruoxi Sun, Minhui Xue, and Damith Ranasinghe, An Automated Assessment of Android
Clipboards.
The 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE, CORE A*), Late
Breaking
Results Track, 2020
Journals
[TIFS 2025] Zehang Deng, Ruoxi Sun, Minhui Xue, Wanlun Ma, Sheng Wen, Surya Nepal, and Yang Xiang. Hardening LLM fine-tuning: From differentially private data selection to trustworthy model quantization. (Q1).
[TDSC 2025] Zhongzheng Lai, Huaming Chen, Ruoxi Sun, Yu Zhang, Minhui Xue, and Dong Yuan. On security weaknesses and vulnerabilities in deep learning systems. (Q1)
In Optics
Design and Thermal Characteristics Analysis of Power Flexible LED Packaging. Chin. Luminescence
Preparation and infrared optical properties of W-V co-sputtered thermochromic thin films. Metal
Materials and Engineering
Microstructures and thermochromic characteristics of low-cost vanadium-tungsten co-sputtered thin films.
Surface and Coating Technology
Study on Thermochromic Properties of VO2/ZnO Nanocrystalline Composite Films. Acta Phisica Sinica
Coherence collapse of the dual FBG external cavity semiconductor laser. Acta Phisica Sinica
Theoretical investigation into spectral characteristics of a semiconductor laser with dual-FBG external
cavity. Optics Communications
Wavelength stabilization of a 980-nm semiconductor laser module stabilized with high-power uncooled dual
FBG. Chin Opt Lett
Infrared optical properties of thermochromic energy-saving thin films with nanostructure. Acta Optica
Sinica
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