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I am an Assistant Researcher at Zhongguancun Laboratory. I received my Ph.D. degree in Cyber Security from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the guidance of Prof. Xiang Cui, Qixu Liu, and Chaoge Liu. My primary research interests include AI security, network and application security, botnet, and blockchain.

Note My iie.ac.cn and arkteam.net email addresses are no longer in use. If you need to contact me, please use zhiwang AT ieee.org instead.

Work

[07/2023 – now] Zhongguancun Laboratory, Assistant Researcher

Education

[09/2017 – 06/2023] University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD in Cyber Security

[09/2013 – 06/2017] Civil Aviation University of China, Bachelor in Information Security

Publication

Yong Zhao, Ang Xia, Jie Yin, Zhi Wang, Yaqin Cao, Xiangyi Zeng, Yuling Liu. BASSET: Enhancing Binary Code Clone Searching through Multi-Level Hybrid Semantic Indexing. In 2025 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN’25), Naples, Italy. IEEE, 2025: 47-60. DOI: 10.1109/DSN64029.2025.00020

Chaoge Liu, Zhi Wang, Jie Yin, Yinsheng Liu, Kai Mao, Zhe Huang, Chumeng Deng. SCBot: Building Lightweight and Flexible C&C Based on Smart Contract. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’25), Hyderabad, India. IEEE, 2025: 1-5. DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10889707

Xutong Wang, Jie Yin, Chaoge Liu, Chenchen Xu, Hao Huang, Zhi Wang, and Fangjiao Zhang. A Survey of Backdoor Attacks and Defenses on Neural Networks (神经网络后门攻击与防御综述). Chinese Journal of Computers (计算机学报). 2024, 47(8): 1713-1743. DOI: 10.11897/SP.J.1016.2024.01713

Peng Liao, Binxing Fang, Chaoge Liu, Zhi Wang, Yuntao Zhang, and Xiang Cui. Measurement and Detection Techniques for NFT Counterfeiting Fraud (NFT仿冒欺诈的测量与检测技术). Chinese Journal of Computers (计算机学报). 2024, 47(5):1065-1081. DOI: 10.11897/SP.J.1016.2024.0065

Peng Liao, Chaoge Liu, Jie Yin, Zhi Wang, and Xiang Cui. NFT Security Matrix: Towards Modeling NFT Ecosystem Threat. Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences. 2024, 139(3): 3255-3285. DOI: 10.32604/cmes.2024.043855

Cong Dong, Jiahai Yang, Song Liu, Zhi Wang, Yuling Liu, and Zhigang Lu. C-BEDIM and S-BEDIM: Lateral Movement Detection In Enterprise Network Through Behavior Deviation Measurement. Computers & Security. 2023, 130: 103267. DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2023.103267

Yanhui Chen, Yun Feng, Zhi Wang, Jianjun Zhao, Chengchun Wang, and Qixu Liu. IMaler: An Adversarial Attack Framework to Obfuscate Malware Structure against DGCNN-based Classifier via Reinforcement Learning. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’23). IEEE, 2023: 790-796. DOI: 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279372

Xutong Wang, Chaoge Liu, Xiaohui Hu, Zhi Wang, Jie Yin, and Xiang Cui. Make Data Reliable: An Explanation-powered Cleaning on Malware Dataset Against Backdoor Poisoning Attacks. In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC’22). ACM, 2022: 267–278. DOI: 10.1145/3564625.3564661

Zhi Wang, Chaoge Liu, Xiang Cui, Jie Yin, Jiaxi Liu, Di Wu, and Qixu Liu. DeepC2: AI-Powered Covert Command and Control on OSNs. In 24th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS’22). Springer, Cham, 2022: 394-414. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15777-6_22 (Best Artifact Award)

Zhi Wang, Chaoge Liu, Xiang Cui, Jie Yin, and Xutong Wang. EvilModel 2.0: Bringing Neural Network Models into Malware Attacks. Computers & Security. 2022, 120: 102807. DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2022.102807

Zhi Wang, Jie Yin, Xiang Cui, Qixu Liu, Chaoge Liu, and Xutong Wang. AI-Powered Cyber Threats: A Survey (人工智能赋能网络威胁研究进展). Chinese Journal of Cyber Security (信息安全学报). (Accepted) DOI: 10.19363/J.cnki.cn10-1380/tn.2024.04.09

Zhi Wang, Chaoge Liu, and Xiang Cui. EvilModel: Hiding Malware Inside of Neural Network Models. In 2021 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’21). IEEE, 2021: 1-7. DOI: 10.1109/iscc53001.2021.9631425

Fangjiao Zhang, Xiang Cui, Zhi Wang, Shaomian Chen, Qixu Liu, and Chaoge Liu. A Systematic Study of AI Applications in Cybersecurity Competitions. In 2020 IEEE 14th International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BigDataSE’20). IEEE, 2020: 138-146. DOI: 10.1109/bigdatase50710.2020.00026

Jie Yin, Xiang Cui, Chaoge Liu, Qixu Liu, Tao Cui, and Zhi Wang. CoinBot: A covert botnet in the cryptocurrency network. In 22nd International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS’20). Springer, Cham, 2020: 107-125. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61078-4_7

Zihao Zhao, Qixu Liu, Tiantian Song, Zhi Wang, and Xianda Wu. WSLD: Detecting Unknown Webshell Using Fuzzy Matching and Deep Learning. In 21st International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS’19). Springer, Cham, 2019: 725-745. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-41579-2_42

Zhi Wang, Jinli Zhang, Qixu Liu, Xiang Cui, and Junwei Su. Practical Metrics for Evaluating Anonymous Networks. In 1st International Conference on Science of Cyber Security (SciSec’18). Springer, Cham, 2018: 3-18. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03026-1_1

Chaoge Liu, Xiang Cui, Zhi Wang, Xiaoxi Wang, Yun Feng, and Xiaoyun Li. MaliceScript: A Novel Browser-Based Intranet Threat. In 2018 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Data Science in Cyberspace (DSC’18). IEEE, 2018: 219-226. DOI: 10.1109/DSC.2018.00039

Jingqiang Liu, Zihao Zhao, Xiang Cui, Zhi Wang, and Qixu Liu. A Novel Approach for Detecting Browser-Based Silent Miner. In 2018 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Data Science in Cyberspace (DSC’18). IEEE, 2018: 490-497. DOI: 10.1109/DSC.2018.00079

Jinli Zhang, Zhi Wang. Poster: An anonymity metric of anonymous network. In 2018 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P’18). IEEE, 2018.

Junwei Su, Qixu Liu, Zhi Wang, and Xiaoyun Li. Poster: A Web Server Identified Model based on Mean Shift. In 2018 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P’18). IEEE, 2018.

Wei Jin, Hong Cui, Zhi Wang, Faqin Guo, Yiwen Wang, and Shuai He. Detection and Control System for DDoS Attacks (针对DDoS攻击的检测与控制系统). Cyberspace Security (网络空间安全). 2017, 8(Z3): 19-22.

Awards

[09/2022] Best Artifact Award, International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2022)

[10/2021] 1st Prize, Encrypted Traffic Analysis on DataCon Big Data Security Analysis Contest

[05/2021] Dean’s Excellence Award, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences

[10/2020] Excellence Award on Coremail E-mail Security Analysis Contest

[05/2019] Outstanding Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

[06/2017] Outstanding Bachelor Thesis Award, Civil Aviation University of China

[08/2015] 1st Prize, National College Student Information Security Contest

Services

Member of ACM.

Member of IEEE, Member of IEEE Computer Society, Member of IEEE Communications Society.

Professional Member of CCF, Member of the Computer Security Professional Committee of CCF, Executive Member of the Network and System Security Committee of CCF.

Reviewer: Computers & Security, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Chinese Journal of Cyber Security (信息安全学报), ICASSP2025, IJCNN2025, CSAE2023.

TPC member: ICAIDES2025.

Contact

zhiwang AT ieee.org