Biography
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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, Irvine (UCI) advised by Prof. Zhou Li. My research interests focus on privacy-preserving systems, secure machine learning, and applied cryptography. If you are interested into my research, welcome to contact me.
News
- [May 2025] I am excited to attend S&P in San Francisco. I will share our poster work about ‘‘Grace’’ at DLSP@S&P on May 15. I would be very appreciated if you could give comments and suggestions!
- [Nov 2024] I am excited to attend NSF NeTS Early Career Investigator Workshop on January 15-16, 2025. I am grateful for NSF Travel Grant and my advisor’s great help! See you in Alexandria, Virginia ~
- [Sep 2024] I joined DSP lab hosted by Prof. Zhou Li at University of California, Irvine!
- [Jun 2024] I passed my PhD defense!
Selected Publication & Preprint
# denotes equal contribution.
Yu Zheng, Chenang Li, Zhou Li, and Qingsong Wang. “Convergent Privacy Framework with Contractive GNN layers for Multi-hop Aggregations.” arXiv
Jiacen Xu, Chenang Li, Yu Zheng, and Zhou Li. “Entente: Cross-silo Intrusion Detection on Network Log Graphs with Federated Learning”. arXiv
Yu Zheng#, Qizhi Zhang#, Chenang Li, Lichun Li, Kai Zhou, and Shan Yin. “Secure Graph Convolutional Network on Vertically Split Data from Sparse Matrix Decomposition.” arXiv (Preliminary version accepted as extended abstract in DLSP@S&P’25)
Yu Zheng, Wenchao Zhang, Yonggang Zhang, Wei Song, Kai Zhou, and Bo Han. “Revisiting Privacy-Utility Trade-off for DP Training with Pre-existing Knowledge.” arXiv
Xiangfu Song, Yu Zheng, Jianli Bai, Changyu Dong, Zheli Liu, and Ee-Chien Chang. “DISCO: Dynamic Searchable Encryption with Constant State.” ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2024.
Yu Zheng, Wenchao Zhang, Wei Song, Xiuhua Wang, and Chong Fu. “Encrypted Video Search with Single/Multiple Writers.” ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), 2024. (Invited Submission)
Zhiqin Yang, Yonggang Zhang, Yu Zheng, Xinmei Tian, Hao Peng, Tongliang Liu, and Bo Han. “FedFed: Feature Distillation against Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023.
Yu Zheng#, Qizhi Zhang#, Sherman S.M. Chow, Yuxiang Peng, Sijun Tan, Lichun Li, and Shan Yin. “Secure Softmax/Sigmoid for Machine-Learning Computation.” Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2023. [Available Badge, Functional Badge, Reproduced Badge]
Yu Zheng, Wei Song, Minxin Du, Sherman S.M. Chow, Qian Lou, Yongjun Zhao, Xiuhua Wang. “Cryptography-Inspired Federated Learning Variants for GAN and Meta Learning.” International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), 2023.
Yu Zheng, Heng Tian, Minxin Du, and Chong Fu. “Encrypted Video Search: Scalable, Modular, and Content-similar.” ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys), 2022. (Best Student Paper Award)
Misc
I like reading and sports. And …