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General Information

Name Ping Chen
Title Professor & Doctoral Supervisor, Institute of Big Data, Fudan University
Email pchen@fudan.edu.cn
Address No. 2005 Songhu Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China

Education

  • 2007 -- 2012
    Ph.D. in Computer Software and Theory
    Nanjing University, China
    • Research focus on system and software security.
  • 2010 -- 2011
    Joint Ph.D. Training (Cloud Computing Security)
    Purdue University, USA
    • State-sponsored research on cloud security and virtualization.

Academic Appointments

  • 2021 -- Present
    Professor & Doctoral Supervisor
    Institute of Big Data, Fudan University
    • Established the Endogenous Security Laboratory with 30+ researchers.
    • Leads 18 national and provincial projects focused on intelligent vehicle and AI security.
    • Co-established Shanghai municipal innovation centers for nuclear energy and intelligent vehicles.
  • 2014 -- 2018
    Postdoctoral Scholar
    Pennsylvania State University, USA
    • Research on adaptive defense, vulnerability discovery, and malware analysis.

Industry Leadership

  • 2018 -- 2021
    Senior Security Architect / Head of Data & Risk Control Security
    JD.com Silicon Valley R&D Center, USA
    • Built a 60+ member team delivering privacy compliance, watermarking, and anti-fraud capabilities.
  • 2012 -- 2014
    Senior Researcher
    EMC, USA
    • Led cloud computing security R&D for OpenStack network and storage virtualization.

Research Interests

  • Intelligent connected vehicle security and resilience.
  • Large-model security, red-teaming, and capability assessment.
  • Endogenous cybersecurity architectures and adaptive defenses.
  • Privacy-preserving risk analytics and data governance.

Representative Projects

  • 2024 -- 2026
    Intelligent Driving Functional Safety & Cybersecurity Assurance (National Key R&D Program)
    • Principal Investigator developing integrated safety-security assurance for intelligent driving systems.
  • 2022 -- 2025
    Cyberspace Endogenous Security Mechanisms & Assessment (National Key R&D Program)
    • Principal Investigator for unified risk assessment and intelligent offensive-defensive platforms.
  • 2023 -- Present
    Diversified Directed Fuzzing Toolset
    • Award-winning AI security toolkit for large-model ecosystems, deployed with municipal partners.
  • 2023 -- Present
    Fu Bao Think Tank Large Language Model
    • Developed heterogeneous watermarking and safety controls for municipal deployments; catalogued in Shanghai Large Model Product Catalog 2024.

Major Research Grants

  • 2025 -- 2028
    Quantum + Intelligent Connected Vehicles (MIIT Challenge Project)
    • Lead investigator delivering endogenous security architectures for national-level mobility infrastructures.
  • 2023 -- 2025
    Simulation Debugging Detection Technology (JF Project)
    • Designing novel simulation and debugging detection frameworks for critical systems.
  • 2024 -- 2026
    Mainstream *** Mining and Utilization (JF Project)
    • Exploring data governance and utilization strategies for high-value industrial datasets.
  • 2022 -- 2025
    Active Defense Modeling for Cloud-Edge Industrial Control Systems
    • Participant developing collaborative defense mechanisms across cloud-edge environments.
  • 2023 -- 2024
    Protocol Vulnerability Analysis System (Eighth Academy Project)
    • Delivered state save/restore based protocol fuzzing and vulnerability discovery.
  • 2023 -- 2024
    Directed Fuzzing Technology (Huawei)
    • Led targeted fuzzing solutions for HarmonyOS and highly enclosed terminal platforms.
  • 2025 -- 2026
    Resilience Assessment Consulting (Huawei)
    • Advising on resilience metrics and consulting for enterprise-scale cyber defense programs.
  • 2018 -- 2020
    Bot Detection System (JD.com & Duke University)
    • Co-led cross-border initiative on intelligent risk control and fraud detection.

Honors & Awards

  • 2025
    • 2024 Major Scientific & Technological Progress Award in Network and Data Security (Rank 1)
  • 2024
    • National Talent Program Awardee
    • Diversified Directed Fuzzing Toolset selected for Shanghai Cybersecurity Innovation Achievement Catalog (Rank 1)
    • Fu Bao Think Tank recognized in Shanghai Large Model Product Catalog
    • Co-established Shanghai Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Power Collaborative Innovation Center
    • Co-established Shanghai Intelligent Connected Vehicle Collaborative Innovation Center
  • 2021
    • Shanghai Leading Talent

Books and Chapters

  • 2019
    MTD Techniques for Memory Protection Against Zero-Day Attacks
    Springer
    • Contributed chapter in "Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber Defense".
  • 2019
    Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Cyber Defense Against Zero-Day Attacks
    Springer
    • Co-authored chapter in "Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber Defense".
  • 2014
    Software Defined Data Center Technology and Application
    Electronic Industry Press, China
    • Co-authored orchestration and management chapter for EMC publication.
  • 2013
    Big Data Strategy, Technology and Application
    Electronic Industry Press, China
    • Authored section on cloud infrastructure security; received Outstanding Publication Award 2014.

Teaching

  • 2024 -- 2026
    Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Undergraduate)
  • 2022 -- 2024
    Computer Principles (Undergraduate)
  • 2022 -- 2024
    Large-scale Distributed Systems (Graduate)
  • 2025 -- 2026
    Cybernetics, Information Theory, and Systems Theory (Undergraduate)

Student Mentoring

Current Trainees 15 Ph.D., 6 Master's, 4 Undergraduate, 2 Postdoctoral researchers
Alumni 1 Ph.D., 7 Master's, 2 Undergraduate graduates
Team Honors Chuang'an Cup Intelligent Vehicle Security CTF Champion 2024; Qiangwang IoV Security Challenge Champion 2024; Intel AI Innovation Application Finalist 2025

Student Awards

  • 2025
    • Intel AI Innovation Application International Finalist
    • National Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition Finalist (Team)
  • 2024
    • Chuang'an Cup Intelligent Vehicle Security CTF Champion
    • Qiangwang IoV Security Elite Challenge Champion
  • 2023
    • Qiangwang IoV Security Elite Challenge Runner-up

Academic Service

  • Guest Editor, MDPI Mathematics (2025--2026)
  • Program Committee, AAAI 2026; CCS Poster 2025; CCS MTD 2016--2017
  • Reviewer for CVPR, ACM MM, Science China, Chinese Journal of Computers, IEEE TDSC/TIFS, Automatica, RAID, CCS, ESORICS, and IET Information Security.