Ph.D. Candidate


University at Buffalo SUNY
309 White Rd, Amherst, NY 14260
[Email] name AT buffalo DOT edu
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Short bio: I am a Ph.D. candidate majoring in Computer Science at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). My advisor is Prof. Hongxin Hu. I received my bachelor's degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University. I am grateful to have received support for my research from the Amazon Research Award.

Research Interests

My research interests center around cyberscurity and machine learning. Currently, I am working on developing security foundation models and utlizing LLM for network intrusion detection systems.

Publications

  1. xNIDS: Explaining Deep Learning-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems for Active Intrusion Responses.

    In Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 2023, Anaheim, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2023

    Feng Wei, Hongda Li, Ziming Zhao, and Hongxin Hu.

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  2. Enabling Dynamic Network Access Control with Anomaly-based IDS and SDN.

    Feng Wei*, Hongda Li*, and Hongxin Hu.

    In Proceedings of ACM International Workshop on Security in Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV Security 2019), Richardson, Texas, USA, March 27, 2019. (*co-first auhtor)

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Services

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Journal Paper Reviewer:

  • IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • Information Systems Frontiers
  • Computers & Security

Teaching

Competitions and Awards

Hobby

  • I like swimming and sailing.
  • "All men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them." - Leonard Cohen
  • “小舟从此逝，江海寄余生” - 苏轼