About Me

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) . I am advised by Dr. Gang Wang.

My primary research interests are network security and privacy, and its intersection areas with machine learning.

Publications

Are Adversarial Phishing Webpages a Threat in Reality? Understanding the Users’ Perception of Adversarial Webpages
Ying Yuan, Qingying Hao, Giovanni Apruzzese, Mauro Conti, and Gang Wang
In Proceedings of The ACM Web Conferencce (WWW)
Singapore, May 2024.

How to Cover up Anomalous Accesses to Electronic Health Records
Xiaojun Xu, Qingying Hao, Zhuolin Yang, Bo Li, David Liebovitz, Gang Wang, Carl Gunter
In Proceedings of The 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
Anaheim, CA, August 2023. PDF

It's Not What It Looks Like: Manipulating Perceptual Hashing based Applications
Qingying Hao, Licheng Luo, Steve T.K. Jan, Gang Wang
In Proceedings of The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
Seoul, South Korea, November 2021. PDF / Video / Slide

CADE: Detecting and Explaining Concept Drift Samples for Security Applications
Limin Yang, Wenbo Guo, Qingying Hao, Arridhana Ciptadi, Ali Ahmadzadeh, Xinyu Xing, Gang Wang
In Proceedings of The 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 2021. PDF / Supplementary PDF / Code / Artifact Evaluated

Throwing Darts in the Dark? Detecting Bots with Limited Data using Neural Data Augmentation
Steve T.K. Jan, Qingying Hao, Tianrui Hu, Jiameng Pu, Sonal Oswal, Gang Wang, Bimal Viswanath
In Proceedings of The 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE SP)
San Francisco, CA, May 2020. PDF

Neural Cryptanalysis: Metrics, Methodology, and Applications in CPS Ciphers
Ya Xiao, Qingying Hao, Danfeng Yao
In Proceedings of The IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (IDSC)
Hangzhou, China, November 2019. PDF

The Research and Application of Enterprises' Dynamic Risk Monitoring and Assessment Model Based on Related Time Series
Yuqing Yu, Qingying Hao, Ping Hao
In Proceedings of The Chinese Automation Congress & Intelligent Manufacturing International Conference (CAC)
Jinan, China, October 2017. PDF

Research and Application of Intelligent Electronic Risk Monitoring Model
Ping Hao, Zhou Zheng, Qingying Hao, Yuqing Yu
Journal of Zhejiang University of Technology, March 2018.

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 08/2019-present
Ph.D. in Computer Science

Virginia Tech, 08/2018-08/2019
Ph.D. in Computer Science

Johns Hopkins University, 08/2016-12/2017
M.S. in Information Security

University of Washington Seattle, 08/2011-06/2015
B.S. in Information Science

Research Experience

Research Assisstant at Computer Science Departmeent, UIUC, 09/2019-now

Research Assisstant at Computer Science Departmeent, Virginia Tech, 09/2018-08/2019

Research Assisstant at Information Security Institute, Johns Hopkins University, 06/2016-10/2016

TA Experience