Qifan Zhang
Ph.D. candidate
Data-driven Security and Privacy (DSP) Lab
Department of EECS
University of California, Irvine
Biography
Pronunciation of his name: Chee-Fan Jang.
His Curriculum Vitae (last updated on Aug 26, 2024)
Recent news
- [08/2024]: ResolverFuzz has been presented in USENIX Security 2024. Slides are available here.
- [08/2024]: ResolverFuzz has been awarded with USENIX Badge Artifacts Available and Artifacts Functional by USENIX Security 2024 Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC).
- [07/2024]: Awared with USENIX Security 2024 Student Grant. Many thanks, USENIX!
- [05/2024]: FedSecurity got accepted by KDD'24. Big congrats, Shanshan!
- [03/2024]: Artifacts of ResolverFuzz has been released on GitHub.
- [02/2024]: Presented a poster of ResolverFuzz in NDSS 2024. Qifan has also presented SLMIA-SR on behalf of Guangke Chen from ShanghaiTech.
- [01/2024]: ResolverFuzz has been accepted by OARC 42. See you in Charlotte, NC on Feb 8-9! Slides are available here. Video recording is available on YouTube and Bilibili.
- Domain Name System (DNS). Qifan is interested in security, privacy and reliability of DNS. In particular, he is interested in automated vulnerability detection with fuzzing techniques [Security'24]. Based on his automated tool, ResolverFuzz, several vital vulnerabilities have been discovered, including protocol security [NDSS'23], implementation assessment [Security'23], etc.
- Machine Learning Security and Privacy. Qifan is also interested in security and privacy topics related to machine learning. His past research demonstrated model extraction on Autonomous Vehicle using Gradient-Descent based methods [ACSAC'22].
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Ph.D. in Computer Engineering
2020 - now
University of California, Irvine
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B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology, Minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
2016 - 2020
ShanghaiTech University
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Summer Session
2017
University of California, Berkeley
Publications
Miscs
Awards and Honors
In UC Irvine
- Student travel grant for USENIX Security (2024, 2021)
- Associated Graduate Students Conference Stipend (Winter 2024, Fall 2022)
- 2024 UCI Concerto Competition Winner
- 2023 ANRW Travel Grant
- 2022 ACSAC Student Conferenceship
- Student travel grant for NDSS (2021)
- Student travel grant for IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2021)
In ShanghaiTech
- 2020 ShanghaiTech Outstanding Graduate
- SIST Outstanding Teaching Assistant (2020, 2019, 2018)
- Merit Student (2018-2019, 2017-2018, 2016-2017)
- Outstanding Personnel in 2017 Summer Camp
Services
Program Committee
- EAI ICECI: 2024
Artifact Evaluation Committee
External Reviewer
- Conferences:
- NDSS: 2025, 2023, 2022, 2021
- SecureComm: 2023
- AsiaCCS: 2022, 2021
- Journals:
- IEEE Transactions on Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (T-IFS)
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
- IEEE Internet of Things (IEEE IoT)
- Elsevier Computer Networks
- Elsevier High-Confidence Computing
- Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA)
- PeerJ Computer Science
Teaching
In UC Irvine
- (Head TA) EECS 148 (S24): Computer Networks (#students: 217)
- (Head TA in F23) EECS 40 (F23, F22): Objected Oriented Systen and Programming (#students: 90/95)
In ShanghaiTech
- SI 100C (F17): Introduction to Computer Science and Technology (#students: 127)
- CS 100 (F18): Programming (#students: 243)
- CS 277 (F19): Introduction to Data Science and FinTech (#students: 23)
- (core TA) SI 100B (S18, S19, S20): Introduction to Information Science and Technology (#students: 203/174/410)
Classical Music
Qifan Zhang is also a crazy fan of classical music. Since the age of 7, Qifan starts to learn the clarinet under the supervision of Prof. Xie Jingquan, Prof. Tian Yaohui and Prof. Wang Zhenxian from Nanjing University of Arts. After he came to the United States, he is honored to follow the instruction of Prof. Boris Allakhverdyan, principal clarinetist of Los Angeles Philharmonic as well as faculty member of Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles.
Many thanks to Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Pope and Prof. Emeriti Dr. Stephen Tucker, he has been appointed as the principal clarinetist of UCI Symphony Orchestra, Department of Music since 2020.
In Feb 2024, Qifan won 2024 UCI Concerto Competition.
List of selected performance recordings:
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Clarinet Concerto No.1, Op.26, Mvt. I by Louis Spohr
- Winning piece for 2024 UCI Concerto Competition
- Video recording
- With pianist Prof. Dr. Alin Melik-Adamyan. Available on YouTube and Bilibili.
- With the UCI Symphony Orchestra in the UCI Winter 2024 concert on Mar 7, 2024 at Irvine Barclay Theatre. Available on YouTube and Bilibili.
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Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (Shepherd on the Rock), D.965 by Franz Schubert.
- Collaborated with Ivanna Vargas (soprano) and Junko Nojima (piano)
- Video recording available on YouTube and Bilibili.
Copyright of the headshot photo is reserved by UC Regents for UCI Connect. You could find a short interview of me here.
Every serious classical clarinetist will own both a B-flat and an A clarinet.