Profile

I am currently a Pretenure Associate Professor in Fudan University (New Website). Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), collaborating with by Prof. Michael R. Lyu.

Research Interests

Software Security, Program Analysis, AI System Reliability

Conference Papers

"NV-DNN: Towards Fault-Tolerant DNN Systems with N-Version Programming" Hui Xu, Zhuangbin Chen, Weibin Wu, Zhi Jin, Sy-yen Kuo, and Michael R. Lyu, to appear in the 2nd Workshop on Dependable and Secure Machine Learning (DSN-DSML) 2019.
"Deep Validation: Toward Detecting Real-world Corner Cases for Deep Neural Networks," Weibin Wu, Hui Xu, Sanqiang Zhong, Michael R Lyu, and Irwin King to appear in the 49th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) 2019.
"Benchmarking the Capability of Symbolic Execution Tools with Logic Bombs," Hui Xu, Zirui Zhao, Yangfan Zhou, and Michael R. Lyu Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) accepted in 2018.
"Manufacturing Resilient Bi-Opaque Predicates against Symbolic Execution," Hui Xu, Yangfan Zhou, Yu Kang, Fengzhi Tu and Michael R. Lyu, in the 48th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2018.
"Concolic Execution on Small-Size Binary Codes: Challenges and Empirical Study," Hui Xu, Yangfan Zhou, Yu Kang, and Michael R. Lyu, in the 47th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2017.
"IntelliAd: Assisting Mobile App Developers in Measuring Ad Costs Automatically [Poster]," Cuiyun Gao, Yichuan Man, Hui Xu, Jieming Zhu, Yangfan Zhou and Michael R. Lyu, in the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-C), 2017.
"DiagDroid: Android Performance Diagnosis via Anatomizing Asynchronous Executions," Yu Kang, Yangfan Zhou, Hui Xu, and Michael R. Lyu, in Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2016.
"N-Version Obfuscation," Hui Xu, Yangfan Zhou, and Michael R. Lyu, in Proceedings of the 2nd Cyber-Phsical System Security Workshop (in conjunction with AsiaCCS), 2016.
"Assessing the Security Properties of Software Obfuscation," Hui Xu, and Michael R. Lyu, in IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, Oct, 2016.
"SpyAware: Investigating the Privacy Leakage Signatures in App Execution Traces," Hui Xu, Yangfan Zhou, Cuiyun Gao, Yu Kang, Michael R. Lyu, in Precedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2015) 2015.
"AR-Tracker: Track the Dynamics of Mobile Apps via User Review Mining," Cuiyun Gao, Hui Xu, Junjie Hu, and Yangfan Zhou, in proceedings of the 2015 International Workshop on Internet-based Virtual Computing Environment (IVCE 2015) 2015.
"Towards Continuous and Passive Authentication via Touch Biometrics: An Experimental Study on Smartphones," Hui Xu, Yangfan Zhou, and Michael R. Lyu, in Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2014) 2014.

Public Services

Reviewer of ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Elsevier Information and Software Technology (IST)

External Reviewer of ISSRE'15, PRDC'15, DSN'16, ICSE'16, ISSRE'16, WSDM'16, ISSRE'17, DSN'18, IJICA'18, NIPS'18, TDSC

Teaching Assistant Experience

ECLT5820 Distributed and Mobile Computing

2014 Fall

CSCI3100 Software Engineering

2015 Spring

ENGG2440A Discrete Mathematics

2015 Fall

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