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Overview

Sencun Zhu is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Computer Science, with a publication record highlighting various subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Signal Processing, and Computer Networks and Communications.

Their research spans diverse topics within computer science, notably:

  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques
  • User Authentication and Security Systems
  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods

Sencun Zhu has contributed to multiple publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Network
  • Tsinghua Science & Technology
  • Electronics
  • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Mitigating Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Preserving personalized location privacy in ride-hailing service, 2020, Tsinghua Science & Technology
  • Privacy-Preserving Surveillance as an Edge Service Based on Lightweight Video Protection Schemes Using Face De-Identification and Window Masking, 2021, Electronics
  • Federated Unlearning with Knowledge Distillation, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Security Analysis of Cryptocurrency Wallets in Android-Based Applications, 2020, IEEE Network

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Yu Chen
  • Daojing He
  • Alem Fitwi
  • Sammy Chan
  • Nadra Guizani

Best Publications

  • LEAP+: Efficient security mechanisms for large-scale distributed sensor networks

    Sencun Zhu;Sanjeev Setia;Sushil Jajodia

  • An interleaved hop-by-hop authentication scheme for filtering of injected false data in sensor networks

    Sencun Zhu;S. Setia;S. Jajodia;Peng Ning

  • Detecting Offensive Language in Social Media to Protect Adolescent Online Safety

    Ying Chen;Yilu Zhou;Sencun Zhu;Heng Xu

  • Routing in Socially Selfish Delay Tolerant Networks

    Qinghua Li;Sencun Zhu;Guohong Cao

  • SDAP: A Secure Hop-by-Hop Data Aggregation Protocol for Sensor Networks

    Yi Yang;Xinran Wang;Sencun Zhu;Guohong Cao

  • Establishing pairwise keys for secure communication in ad hoc networks: a probabilistic approach

    Sencun Zhu;Shouhuai Xu;Sanjeev Setia;Sushil Jajodia

  • TapLogger: inferring user inputs on smartphone touchscreens using on-board motion sensors

    Zhi Xu;Kun Bai;Sencun Zhu

  • SDAP: a secure hop-by-Hop data aggregation protocol for sensor networks

    Yi Yang;Xinran Wang;Sencun Zhu;Guohong Cao

  • Towards statistically strong source anonymity for sensor networks

    Yi Yang;Min Shao;Sencun Zhu;Guohong Cao

  • SigFree: A Signature-Free Buffer Overflow Attack Blocker

    Xinran Wang;Chi-Chun Pan;Peng Liu;Sencun Zhu

  • SET: Detecting node clones in sensor networks

    Heesook Choi;Sencun Zhu;Thomas F. La Porta

  • Towards Statistically Strong Source Anonymity for Sensor Networks

    Min Shao;Yi Yang;Sencun Zhu;Guohong Cao

  • Towards event source unobservability with minimum network traffic in sensor networks

    Yi Yang;Min Shao;Sencun Zhu;Bhuvan Urgaonkar

  • Semantics-based obfuscation-resilient binary code similarity comparison with applications to software plagiarism detection

    Lannan Luo;Jiang Ming;Dinghao Wu;Peng Liu

  • ViewDroid: towards obfuscation-resilient mobile application repackaging detection

    Fangfang Zhang;Heqing Huang;Sencun Zhu;Dinghao Wu

  • Practical broadcast authentication in sensor networks

    D. Liu;P. Ning;S. Zhu;S. Jajodia

  • Attack-resilient time synchronization for wireless sensor networks

    Hui Song;Sencun Zhu;Guohong Cao

  • LHAP: a lightweight hop-by-hop authentication protocol for ad-hoc networks

    Sencun Zhu;Shouhuai Xu;S. Setia;S. Jajodia;S. Jajodia

  • Distributed Software-based Attestation for Node Compromise Detection in Sensor Networks

    Yi Yang;Xinran Wang;Sencun Zhu;Guohong Cao

  • pBMDS: a behavior-based malware detection system for cellphone devices

    Liang Xie;Xinwen Zhang;Jean-Pierre Seifert;Sencun Zhu

  • Backdoor Embedding in Convolutional Neural Network Models via Invisible Perturbation

    Cong Liao;Haoti Zhong;Anna Squicciarini;Sencun Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Guohong Cao
Guohong Cao Pennsylvania State University
Sushil Jajodia
Sushil Jajodia George Mason University
Daojing He
Daojing He East China Normal University
Wensheng Zhang
Wensheng Zhang Iowa State University
Heng Xu
Heng Xu University of Florida
Shouhuai Xu
Shouhuai Xu University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Sammy Chan
Sammy Chan University of Hong Kong
Prasant Mohapatra
Prasant Mohapatra University of South Florida
Thomas F. La Porta
Thomas F. La Porta Pennsylvania State University
Peng Ning
Peng Ning Google (United States)

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