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Research

2025

  • Fang Li, Fei Zuo, and Gopal Gupta. "Exploring answer set programming for provenance graph-based cyber threat detection: A novel approach", The 27th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL), Denver, CO, 2025

2024

  • Fei Zuo, and Junghwan Rhee. "Vulnerability discovery based on source code patch commit mining: A systematic literature review", International Journal of Information Security, 2024 [Link]

  • Chenglong Fu, Xiaojiang Du, Qiang Zeng, Zhenyu Zhao, Fei Zuo, and Jia Di. "Seeing is believing: Extracting semantic information from video for verifying IoT events", The 17th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), Seoul, Korea, 2024 [Link]

  • Junghwan Rhee, Fei Zuo, Yung Ryn Choe, Cody Tompkins, and Jeehyun Oh. "GrizzlyBay: Retroactive SBOM with automated identification for legacy binaries", The 44th IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Washington, DC, 2024

  • Fei Zuo, Cody Tompkins, Qiang Zeng, Lannan Luo, Yung Ryn Choe, and Junghwan Rhee. "BinSimDB: Benchmark dataset construction for fine-grained binary code similarity analysis", The 20th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Dubai, UAE, 2024 [Link]

  • Fei Zuo, Cody Tompkins, Gang Qian, Junghwan Rhee, Xianshan Qu, and Bokai Yang. "ChatGPT as an assembly language interpreter for computing education", Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol 40, No. 2, 2024

  • Bokai Yang, Ling Hao, Yuqi Song, Xin Zhang, Fei Zuo, and Xianshan Qu. "Demographics, approaches, and conceptions: Understanding computer science learning", Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol 40, No. 1, 2024

  • Junghwan Rhee, Aakankshya Shrestha, Gang Qian, Fei Zuo, Jicheng Fu, Myungah Park, Goutam Mylavarapu, Xianshan Qu, and Hong Sung. "An evaluation on the impact of large language models on computer science curricula", Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol 40, No. 1, 2024

  • Josiah Scott, Fei Zuo, and Junghwan Rhee. "Student-perspective observations from the comparison of Rust and C++ languages", Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol 40, No. 1, 2024

  • Xianshan Qu, Fei Zuo, Xiaopeng Li and Junghwan Rhee. "Context matters: Investigating its impact on ChatGPT’s bug fixing performance", The 22nd IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), Honolulu, HI, 2024 [Link]

  • Xin Zhang, Yuqi Song, Wyatt McCurdy, Xiaofeng Wang and Fei Zuo. "Revising the problem of partial labels from the perspective of CNNs' robustness", The 22nd IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), Honolulu, HI, 2024

  • Yuqi Song, Xin Zhang, Bokai Yang, Fei Zuo and Xianshan Qu. "A robust attention-based convolutional neural network for monocular depth estimation", The 22nd IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), Honolulu, HI, 2024 [Link]

  • Suhan Jiang, Jie Wu and Fei Zuo. "Utility-based routing in payment channel networks: A tradeoff between utility and privacy", The 22nd IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), Honolulu, HI, 2024

  • Aakankshya Shrestha, Fei Zuo, Gang Qian and Junghwan Rhee. "A survey and insights on modern game development processes for software engineering education", The 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE), San Diego, CA, 2024

2023

  • Fei Zuo, Junghwan Rhee, Yonghyun Kim, Jeehyun Oh, and Gang Qian. "A comprehensive dataset towards hands-on experience enhancement in a research-involved cybersecurity program", The 24th ACM Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE), Marietta, GA, 2023 [Link]

  • Fei Zuo, Xin Zhang, Yuqi Song, Junghwan Rhee, and Jicheng Fu. "Commit message can help: Security patch detection in open source software via Transformer", The 21st IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), Orlando, FL, 2023 [Link]

  • Fei Zuo, Junghwan Rhee, Myungah Park, and Gang Qian. "PowerGrader: Automating code assessment based on PowerShell for programming courses", The 21st IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), Orlando, FL, 2023

  • Fei Zuo, Junghwan Rhee, Myungah Park, and Gang Qian. "Designing a security system administration course for cybersecurity with a companion project", Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol 39, No. 5, pp. 43–52, 2023 [Link]

  • Madhukar Shrestha, Yonghyun Kim, Jeehyun Oh, Junghwan Rhee, Yung Ryn Choe, Fei Zuo, Myungah Park, and Gang Qian. "ProvSec: Open cybersecurity system provenance analysis benchmark dataset with labels", International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing (IJNDC), vol 11, pp. 112–123, 2023 (*This paper ranks as one of the most downloaded articles in IJNDC from 2021 to 2023) [Link]

  • Suhan Jiang, Jie Wu, Fei Zuo, and Alessandro Mei. "Balance-aware cost-efficient routing in the payment channel network", The 21st IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), Orlando, FL, 2023

  • Madhukar Shrestha, Yonghyun Kim, Jeehyun Oh, Junghwan Rhee, Yung Ryn Choe, Fei Zuo, Myungah Park, and Gang Qian. "ProvSec: Cybersecurity system provenance analysis benchmark dataset", The 21st IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), Orlando, FL, 2023

  • Xin Zhang, Yuqi Song, Fei Zuo, Zheqing Zhou, and Xiaofeng Wang. "Towards imbalanced large scale multi-label classification with partially annotated labels", The 21st IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), Orlando, FL, 2023

  • Xin Zhang, Yuqi Song, Xiaofeng Wang, and Fei Zuo. "D-score: A white-box diagnosis score for CNNs based on mutation operators", The 19th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), Shenyang, China, 2023 [Link]

  • Junghwan Rhee, Myung-Ah Park, Fei Zuo, Shuai Zhang, Gang Qian, Goutam Mylavarapu, Hong Sung, and Thomas Turner. "Developing Incident response-focused cybersecurity undergraduate curricula", Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol 38, No. 7, pp. 65–74. 2023 [Link]

Earlier Publications

  • Chuxiong Wu, Xiaopeng Li, Fei Zuo, Lannan Luo, Xiaojiang Du, Jia Di, and Qiang Zeng. "Use it-no need to shake it! Accurate implicit authentication for everyday objects with smart sensing", Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, vol 6, No. 3, pp. 1–25. 2022

  • Fei Zuo, and Qiang Zeng. "Exploiting the sensitivity of L2 adversarial examples to erase-and-restore", The 16th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Hong Kong, China, 2021

  • Lannan Luo, Qiang Zeng, Bokai Yang, Fei Zuo, and Junzhe Wang. "Westworld: Fuzzing-assisted remote dynamic symbolic execution of smart apps on iot cloud platforms", Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Austin, TX, 2021

  • Xiaopeng Li, Fengyao Yan, Fei Zuo, Qiang Zeng, and Lannan Luo. "Touch well before use: Intuitive and secure authentication for IoT devices", The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Los Cabos, Mexico, 2019

  • Fei Zuo, Bokai Yang, Xiaopeng Li, Qiang Zeng, and Lannan Luo. "Exploiting the inherent limitation of L0 adversarial examples", The 22nd International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), Beijing, China, 2019

  • Fei Zuo, Xiaopeng Li, Patrick Young, Lannan Luo, Qiang Zeng, and Zhexin Zhang. "Neural machine translation inspired binary code similarity comparison beyond function pairs", The 26th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, 2019

  • Jianzhong Qi, Fei Zuo, Hanan Samet, and Jia Cheng Yao. "K-regret queries using multiplicative utility functions", ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), vol 43, No. 2, pp. 1-41. 2018