Publications

2025

1. EMNLP

   RevPRAG: Revealing Poisoning Attacks in Retrieval-Augmented Generation through LLM Activation Analysis

   Xue Tan, Hao Luan, Mingyu Luo, and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{tan2025revprag,
     title = {RevPRAG: Revealing Poisoning Attacks in Retrieval-Augmented Generation through {LLM} Activation Analysis},
     author = {Tan, Xue and Luan, Hao and Luo, Mingyu and Sun, Xiaoyan and Chen, Ping and Dai, Jun},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. Sci. China Tech Sci

   Measurement of Intrinsic Safety Resilience in Perceived Decision Systems

   Yu Liu and Ping Chen

   Science China Technological Sciences, 2025

   Bib

   @article{liu2025intrinsic,
     title = {Measurement of Intrinsic Safety Resilience in Perceived Decision Systems},
     author = {Liu, Yu and Chen, Ping},
     journal = {Science China Technological Sciences},
     year = {2025},
   }

3. ACL

   MIRAGE: Exploring How Large Language Models Perform in Complex Social Interactive Environments

   Yin Cai and Ping Chen

   In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{cai2025mirage,
     title = {MIRAGE: Exploring How Large Language Models Perform in Complex Social Interactive Environments},
     author = {Cai, Yin and Chen, Ping},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
     year = {2025},
   }

4. CVPR

   Concept Replacer: Replacing Sensitive Concepts in Diffusion Models via Precision Localization

   Lingyun Zhang, Yu Xie, Yanwei Fu, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{zhang2025concept,
     title = {Concept Replacer: Replacing Sensitive Concepts in Diffusion Models via Precision Localization},
     author = {Zhang, Lingyun and Xie, Yu and Fu, Yanwei and Chen, Ping},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
     year = {2025},
   }

5. JCS

   FedRAB: Robust Federated Learning Against Backdoor Attacks Based on Collaborative Defense with Smoothing

   Xue Tan and Ping Chen

   Journal of Computer Security, 2025

   Bib

   @article{tan2025fedrab,
     title = {FedRAB: Robust Federated Learning Against Backdoor Attacks Based on Collaborative Defense with Smoothing},
     author = {Tan, Xue and Chen, Ping},
     journal = {Journal of Computer Security},
     year = {2025},
   }

6. JCS

   HuntFUZZ: Enhancing Error Handling Testing through Clustering Based Fuzzing

   Wei Jin and Ping Chen

   Journal of Computer Security, 2025

   Bib

   @article{jin2025huntfuzz,
     title = {HuntFUZZ: Enhancing Error Handling Testing through Clustering Based Fuzzing},
     author = {Jin, Wei and Chen, Ping},
     journal = {Journal of Computer Security},
     year = {2025},
   }

7. JCS

   SQLaser: Detecting DBMS Logic Bugs with Clause-Guided Fuzzing

   Wei Jin and Ping Chen

   Journal of Computer Security, 2025

   Bib

   @article{jin2025sqlaser,
     title = {SQLaser: Detecting DBMS Logic Bugs with Clause-Guided Fuzzing},
     author = {Jin, Wei and Chen, Ping},
     journal = {Journal of Computer Security},
     year = {2025},
   }

2024

1. JCS

   DSLR–: A Low-Overhead Data Structure Layout Randomization for Defending Data-Oriented Programming

   Wei Jin and Ping Chen

   Journal of Computer Security, 2024

   Bib

   @article{jin2024dslr,
     title = {DSLR--: A Low-Overhead Data Structure Layout Randomization for Defending Data-Oriented Programming},
     author = {Jin, Wei and Chen, Ping},
     journal = {Journal of Computer Security},
     year = {2024},
   }

2022

1. TDSC

   Semantics-Preserving Reinforcement Learning Attack Against Graph Neural Networks for Malware Detection

   Lan Zhang, Peng Liu, Yoon-Ho Choi, and 1 more author

   IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2022

   Bib

   @article{zhang2022semantics,
     title = {Semantics-Preserving Reinforcement Learning Attack Against Graph Neural Networks for Malware Detection},
     author = {Zhang, Lan and Liu, Peng and Choi, Yoon-Ho and Chen, Ping},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing},
     year = {2022},
   }

2021

1. TIFS

   A Co-design Adaptive Defense Scheme with Bounded Security Damages Against Heartbleed-like Attacks

   Zhisheng Hu, Ping Chen, Minghui Zhu, and 1 more author

   IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2021

   Bib

   @article{hu2021codesign,
     title = {A Co-design Adaptive Defense Scheme with Bounded Security Damages Against Heartbleed-like Attacks},
     author = {Hu, Zhisheng and Chen, Ping and Zhu, Minghui and Liu, Peng},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security},
     year = {2021},
   }

2020

1. JCS

   DEEPRETURN: A Deep Neural Network Can Learn How to Detect Previously-Unseen ROP Payloads without Using Any Heuristics

   Xusheng Li, Zhisheng Hu, Haizhou Wang, and 4 more authors

   Journal of Computer Security, 2020

   Bib

   @article{li2020deepreturn,
     title = {DEEPRETURN: A Deep Neural Network Can Learn How to Detect Previously-Unseen ROP Payloads without Using Any Heuristics},
     author = {Li, Xusheng and Hu, Zhisheng and Wang, Haizhou and Fu, Yiwei and Chen, Ping and Zhu, Minghui and Liu, Peng},
     journal = {Journal of Computer Security},
     year = {2020},
   }

2019

1. Book

   MTD Techniques for Memory Protection Against Zero-Day Attacks

   Ping Chen and collaborators

   In Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber Defense, 2019

   Bib

   @incollection{chen2019mtd,
     title = {MTD Techniques for Memory Protection Against Zero-Day Attacks},
     author = {Chen, Ping and collaborators},
     booktitle = {Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber Defense},
     publisher = {Springer},
     year = {2019},
   }

2. Book

   Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Cyber Defense Against Zero-Day Attacks

   Ping Chen and collaborators

   In Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber Defense, 2019

   Bib

   @incollection{chen2019rl,
     title = {Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Cyber Defense Against Zero-Day Attacks},
     author = {Chen, Ping and collaborators},
     booktitle = {Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber Defense},
     publisher = {Springer},
     year = {2019},
   }

3. Automatica

   On Convergence Rates of Game Theoretic Reinforcement Learning Algorithms

   Zhisheng Hu, Minghui Zhu, Ping Chen, and 1 more author

   Automatica, 2019

   Bib

   @article{hu2019convergence,
     title = {On Convergence Rates of Game Theoretic Reinforcement Learning Algorithms},
     author = {Hu, Zhisheng and Zhu, Minghui and Chen, Ping and Liu, Peng},
     journal = {Automatica},
     year = {2019},
   }

2017

1. USENIX Security

   POMP: Postmortem Program Analysis with Hardware-Enhanced Post-Crash Artifacts

   Jun Xu, Dongliang Mu, Xinyu Xing, and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 26th USENIX Security Symposium, 2017

   Bib

   @inproceedings{xu2017pomp,
     title = {POMP: Postmortem Program Analysis with Hardware-Enhanced Post-Crash Artifacts},
     author = {Xu, Jun and Mu, Dongliang and Xing, Xinyu and Liu, Peng and Chen, Ping and Mao, Bing},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th USENIX Security Symposium},
     year = {2017},
   }

2. DSN

   What You See Is Not What You Get! Thwarting Just-in-Time ROP with Chameleon

   Ping Chen, Jun Xu, Zhisheng Hu, and 4 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 47th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2017

   Bib

   @inproceedings{chen2017chameleon,
     title = {What You See Is Not What You Get! Thwarting Just-in-Time ROP with Chameleon},
     author = {Chen, Ping and Xu, Jun and Hu, Zhisheng and Xing, Xinyu and Zhu, Minghui and Mao, Bing and Liu, Peng},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 47th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks},
     year = {2017},
   }

3. VEE

   Dancing with Wolves: Towards Practical Event-driven VMM Monitoring

   Deng Liang, Peng Liu, Jun Xu, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, 2017

   Bib

   @inproceedings{liang2017dancing,
     title = {Dancing with Wolves: Towards Practical Event-driven VMM Monitoring},
     author = {Liang, Deng and Liu, Peng and Xu, Jun and Chen, Ping and Zeng, Qingkai},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments},
     year = {2017},
   }

2016

1. CCS

   CREDAL: Towards Locating a Memory Corruption Vulnerability with Your Core Dump

   Jun Xu, Dongliang Mu, Ping Chen, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2016

   Bib

   @inproceedings{xu2016credal,
     title = {CREDAL: Towards Locating a Memory Corruption Vulnerability with Your Core Dump},
     author = {Xu, Jun and Mu, Dongliang and Chen, Ping and Xing, Xinyu and Liu, Peng},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security},
     year = {2016},
   }

2015

1. ESORICS

   A Practical Approach for Adaptive Data Structure Layout Randomization

   Ping Chen, Jun Xu, Zhiqiang Lin, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 20th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, 2015

   Bib

   @inproceedings{chen2015adaptive,
     title = {A Practical Approach for Adaptive Data Structure Layout Randomization},
     author = {Chen, Ping and Xu, Jun and Lin, Zhiqiang and Mao, Bing and Liu, Peng},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security},
     year = {2015},
   }

2014

1. Book

   Software Defined Data Center Technology and Application

   Ping Chen and EMC co-authors

   2014

   Bib

   @book{emc2014sddc,
     title = {Software Defined Data Center Technology and Application},
     author = {Chen, Ping and co-authors, EMC},
     publisher = {Electronic Industry Press},
     year = {2014},
   }

2. DSN

   System Call Redirection: A Practical Approach to Meeting Real-world VMI Needs

   Rui Wu, Ping Chen, Peng Liu, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2014

   Bib

   @inproceedings{wu2014system,
     title = {System Call Redirection: A Practical Approach to Meeting Real-world VMI Needs},
     author = {Wu, Rui and Chen, Ping and Liu, Peng and Mao, Bing},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks},
     year = {2014},
   }

2013

1. Book

   Big Data Strategy, Technology and Application

   Ping Chen and EMC co-authors

   2013

   Bib

   @book{emc2013bigdata,
     title = {Big Data Strategy, Technology and Application},
     author = {Chen, Ping and co-authors, EMC},
     publisher = {Electronic Industry Press},
     year = {2013},
   }