Biography: I am Yuhao Wu, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), fortunate to be advised by Umar Iqbal and Ning Zhang. Before coming to WUSTL, I graduated from Sichuan University (SCU) with a Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity in 2021. During my undergraduate studies, I also spent half a year at National University of Singapore (NUS) as an exchange student.

Research Interests: I am interested in the broad intersection of system security and ML systems. My recent research focuses on identifying and addressing the security and privacy challenges faced by emerging learning-enabled systems, such as LLM-based systems and IoT, through system design and ML approaches.

Email: yuhao.wu AT wustl DOT edu

Publications

Preprints

SecGPT: An Execution Isolation Architecture for LLM-Based Systems [PDF]
Y. Wu, F. Roesner, T. Kohno, N. Zhang, U. Iqbal
arXiv:2403.04960, 2024

Conference Papers

Your Firmware Has Arrived: A Study of Firmware Update Vulnerabilities [PDF]
Y. Wu, J. Wang, Y. Wang, S. Zhai, Z. Li, Y. He, K. Sun, Q. Li, and N. Zhang
USENIX Security Symposium, 2024

Please Tell Me More: Privacy Impact of Explainability through the Lens of Membership Inference Attack [PDF]
H. Liu, Y. Wu, Z. Yu, and N. Zhang
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2024

IP Protection in TinyML [PDF]
Y. Wu*, J. Wang*, H. Liu, B. Yuan, R. Chamberlain, and N. Zhang (*Co-first Author)
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2023

CodeIPPrompt: Intellectual Property Infringement Assessment of Code Language Models [PDF]
Z. Yu, Y. Wu, N. Zhang, C. Wang, Y. Vorobeychik, and C. Xiao
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023

SlowLiDAR: Increasing the Latency of LiDAR-Based Detection Using Adversarial Examples [PDF]
H. Liu, Y. Wu, Z. Yu, Y. Vorobeychik, and N. Zhang
IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023

RIATIG: Reliable and Imperceptible Adversarial Text-to-Image Generation with Natural Prompts [PDF]
H. Liu, Y. Wu, S. Zhai, B. Yuan, and N. Zhang
IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023

Work-in-Progress: Measuring Security Protection in Real-time Embedded Firmware [PDF]
Y. Wu, Y. Wang, S. Zhai, Z. Li, A. Li, J. Wang, and N. Zhang
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2022

Detecting Social Spammers in Sina Weibo Using Extreme Deep Factorization Machine [PDF]
Y. Wu, Y. Fang, S. Shang, L. Wei, J. Jin, and H. Wang
International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), 2020

ReAL: A New ResNet-ALSTM Based Intrusion Detection System for the Internet of Energy [PDF]
J. Song, B. Li, Y. Wu, Y. Shi, and A. Li
IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2020

Journal Articles

A Novel Framework for Detecting Social Bots with Deep Neural Networks and Active Learning [PDF]
Y. Wu, Y. Fang, S. Shang, J. Jin, L. Wei, and H. Wang
Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), 2021

DeepFed: Federated Deep Learning For Intrusion Detection in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems [PDF]
B. Li, Y. Wu, J. Song, R. Lu, T. Li, and L. Zhao
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), 2020 (ESI Hot Paper, ESI Highly Cited Paper)

Anti-Honeypot Enabled Optimal Attack Strategy for Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems [PDF]
B. Li, Y. Xiao, Y. Shi, Q, Kong, Y. Wu, and H. Bao
IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society (OJ-CS), 2020

Posters

The Achilles Heel of Extended Reality Apps: Probing Availability Vulnerabilities in Artificial Intelligence Components
Y. Wu, Z. Li, H. Liu, R. Sun, and N. Zhang
USENIX Security Symposium, 2023

Intellectual Property Infringement Assessment of Code Language Models
Z. Yu, Y. Wu, N. Zhang, C. Wang, Y. Vorobeychik, and C. Xiao
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2023

Awards & Honors

  • IEEE S&P Student Travel Grant, 2024
  • ESI Hot Paper, 2022
  • ESI Highly Cited Paper, 2021
  • National Scholarship (Awarded by MoE, China; 0.2% of Chinese undergraduate students), 2020
  • First Prize Scholarship (Awarded by SCU; Top 1%), 2020
  • Outstanding Graduate Honor (Awarded by SCU; Top 10%), 2020
  • Outstanding Student Honor (Awarded by SCU; Top 10%), 2019

Selected Services

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2023, 2024
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024
  • Complex & Intelligent Systems (CAIS), 2021, 2023, 2024
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), 2023
  • IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), 2023
  • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), 2021
  • Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA), 2021

Artifact Evaluation Committee

  • USENIX Security Symposium, 2024

Conference Reviewer/Sub-reviewer

  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2023
  • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2020

External Reviewer

  • USENIX Security Symposium, 2024
  • ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2022, 2023
  • The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS), 2022
  • IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2024
  • The Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2022, 2023
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2022, 2023
  • ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2022, 2024
  • IEEE European Symposium of Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2023
  • Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2023

Volunteer

  • ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2022

Vulnerabilities Found

  • CVE-2022-38956, CVE-2022-46422, CVE-2022-46423, CVE-2022-46424, CVE-2023-23110, CVE-2023-40879, CVE-2022-38873, CVE-2023-40878, CVE-2022-46139, CVE-2022-46428, CVE-2022-46430, CVE-2022-46432, CVE-2022-46434, CVE-2022-46435, CVE-2022-46910, CVE-2022-46912, CVE-2022-46914, CVE-2023-23119, CVE-2023-40881, CVE-2023-23120, CVE-2023-40881, CVE-2023-40882, CVE-2023-40884, CVE-2023-40885, PSV-2022-0183