About

I am a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at Southern Illinois University. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Computer Science Department at George Mason University, advised by Dr. Qiang Zeng. I hold an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina and a B.E. in Electronic Information Engineering from Beihang University.

I am broadly interested in Systems Security, with a focus on cyber-physical systems (CPS) and artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

  • CPS security: Authentication and pairing, smart sensing, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile payment security.
  • AI Security: Adversarial attacks and defenses, watermarking and content attribution, data privacy and security.

News

  • Joined Southern Illinois University as an Assistant Professor.
  • Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation.
  • Named a Notable Reviewer for ICLR'25.
  • Paper on multi-bit and stealthy LLM watermarking accepted to ICML'25.
  • Served on the local organization team for ISC'24.
  • Passed dissertation proposal defense.
  • Paper on QR code payment security accepted to USENIX Security'24.
  • Served on the CCS'24 Artifact Evaluation Committee.
  • Paper on drone-noise authentication accepted to IEEE TMC.
  • Gave a talk at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
  • Passed the comprehensive exam.
  • Paper on NLP-inspired binary analysis accepted to USENIX Security'23.
  • Earned M.S. in Computer Science, University of South Carolina.
  • Paper on everyday-object authentication accepted to UbiComp'22.
  • Paper on drone authentication through a smile is accepted to MobiCom'22.
  • First secure & usable drone authentication system accepted to MobiSys'22.

Publications

ICML 2025 "StealthInk: A Multi-bit and Stealthy Watermark for Large Language Models"
Ya Jiang, Chuxiong Wu, Massieh Kordi Boroujeny, Brian Mark, and Kai Zeng.
The 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.
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Security 2024 "Do You See How I Pose? Using Poses as an Implicit Authentication Factor for QR Code Payment."
Chuxiong Wu, and Qiang Zeng.
The 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), pp. 4571-4588, 2024.
Acceptance Rate: 417/2276 = 18.3%
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TMC 2024 "Turning Noises to Fingerprint-Free 'Credentials': Secure and Usable Drone Authentication."
Chuxiong Wu, and Qiang Zeng.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), pp. 1-14, 2024.
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Security 2023 "Can a Deep Learning Model for One Architecture Be Used for Others? Retargeted-Architecture Binary Code Analysis."
Junzhe Wang, Matthew Sharp, Chuxiong Wu, Qiang Zeng, and Lannan Luo.
The 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), pp. 7339-7356, 2023.
Acceptance Rate: 422/1444 = 29.2%
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UbiComp 2022 "'Use Itβ€”No Need to Shake It!' Accurate Implicit Authentication for Everyday Objects with Smart Sensing."
Chuxiong Wu*, Xiaopeng Li*, Fei Zuo, Lannan Luo, Xiaojiang Du, Jia Di, and Qiang Zeng.
Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Issue 3, Vol. 5 (UbiComp), pp. 1-25, 2022.
(* Co-first Authors)
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MobiCom 2022 "Authentication for Drone Delivery Through a Novel Way of Using Face Biometrics."
Jonathan Sharp, Chuxiong Wu, and Qiang Zeng.
The 28th Annual International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom), pp. 609-622, 2022.
Acceptance Rate: 56/314 = 17.8%
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MobiSys 2022 "G2Auth: Secure Mutual Authentication for Drone Delivery Without Special User-Side Hardware."
Chuxiong Wu, Xiaopeng Li, Lannan Luo, and Qiang Zeng.
The 20th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), pp. 84-98, 2022.
Acceptance Rate: 38/176 = 21.6%
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Teaching

Instructor

Southern Illinois University
CTEC 440: Software Security
  • Fall 2025

Teaching Assistant

George Mason University
CS 471: Operating Systems
  • Spring 2023
University of South Carolina
CSCE 145: Algorithmic Design I
  • Fall 2019

Services

Conference Reviewer

  • Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference (NLDL) - 2026
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) - 2025
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) β€” 2025
  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) β€” 2025, 2026
  • Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) β€” 2024, 2025
  • AI for Time Series Analysis: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (SDM 2025) - 2025
  • International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) - 2025
  • The Undergraduate and Master's Consortium at KDD (KDD-UMC) - 2025
  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Data Sciences and Applications (ACDSA) - 2025
  • IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) β€” 2024
  • IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) β€” 2024
  • International Conference on Internet of Things and Intelligent Information Processing β€” 2024
  • The Undergraduate Consortium at KDD (KDD-UC) β€” 2023
  • IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) β€” 2021

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) β€” 2025
  • ACM Transactions on Computing Education β€” 2025
  • IEEE Internet Computing (IC) β€” 2025
  • CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction (TPCI) - 2025
  • Digital Threats: Research and Practice β€” 2025
  • Computer Standards & Interfaces β€” 2025
  • Journal of Computer Security β€” 2025
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) β€” 2024
  • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN) β€” 2024
  • IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking (TMLCN) β€” 2024
  • ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP) β€” 2024
  • Computers & Security β€” 2024, 2025
  • Big Data Research β€” 2024, 2025
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) β€” 2023
  • ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIoT) β€” 2023
  • Journal of Computer Security (JCS) β€” 2023
  • Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT) β€” 2023
  • Ad Hoc Networks β€” 2023

Artifact Evaluation Committee Member

  • ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) β€” 2024

Volunteer

  • Information Security Conference (ISC) β€” 2024