Heng Li
I received my Ph.D. degree at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Dec. 2023, advised by Prof. Wei Yuan.
My current research interests span software security and machine learning with a series of topics, such as Adversari Example, Android Malware Detection and Information Security.
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News
12/2024, 1 paper has been accepted by NDSS 2025.
12/2024, 1 paper has been accepted by JOS.
07/2024, 1 paper has been accepted by ISSTA 2024.
01/2024, 1 paper has been accepted by ICLR 2024.
12/2023, 1 paper has been accepted by INFOCOM 2024.
12/2023, 1 paper has been accepted by ICSE 2024.
Talks
6/2023, Opening Ceremony Speech at School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
6/2022, Adversarial example attack in Android at VALSE 2022, TianJing, China.
04/2022, AI + Security at CCF YOCSEF. Thanks Ziqi Zhu for the invitation.
Research
I'm interested in software security and machine learning with a series of topics (e.g. Adversarail attack/defense).
Conference Papers:
- Automated Malware Assembly Line: Uniting Piggybacking and Adversarial Example in Android Malware Generation
Heng Li, Zhiyuan Yao, Bang Wu, Cuiying Gao, Teng Xu, Wei Yuan, Xiapu Luo
NDSS 2025 | paper
- Uncovering and Mitigating the Impact of Code Obfuscation on Dataset Annotation with Antivirus Engines
Gao Cuiying, Yueming Wu, Heng Li, Wei Yuan, Haoyu Jiang, Yang Liu,
ISSTA 2024 | paper
- Black-box Adversarial Example Attack towards FCG Based Android Malware Detection under Incomplete Feature Information
Heng Li, Zhang Cheng, Bang Wu, Liheng Yuan, Cuiying Gao, Wei Yuan, Xiapu Luo
USENIX SECURITY 2023 | paper
- Robust Android Malware Detection Against Adversarial Example Attacks
Heng Li, Shiyao Zhou, Wei Yuan, Xiapu Luo, Cuiying Gao, Shuiyan Chen
WWW 2021 | paper
- HARP: Let Object Detector Undergo Hyperplasia to Counter Adversarial Patches
Junzhe Cai, Shuiyan Chen, Heng Li#, Beihao Xia, Zimin Mao, Wei Yuan
ACM MM 2023 (# corresponding author) | paper
- Trace-agnostic and Adversarial Training-resilient Website Fingerprinting Defense
Litao Qiao, Bang Wu, Heng Li, Cuiying Gao, Wei Yuan
INFOCOM 2024 | paper
- A Comprehensive Study of Learning-based Android Malware Detectors under Challenging Environments
Cuiying Gao, Gaozhun Huang, Heng Li, Bang Wu, Yueming Wu, Wei Yuan
ICSE 2024 | paper
- Efficient Backdoor Attacks for Deep Neural Networks in Real-world Scenarios
Ziqiang Li, Hong Sun, Pengfei Xia, Heng Li, Beihao Xia, Yi Wu, Bin Li
ICLR 2024 | paper
- Recent Advances in Concept Drift Adaptation Methods for Deep Learning
Liheng Yuan, Heng Li, Beihao Xia, Cuiying Gao, Mingyue Liu, Wei Yuan, Xinge You
IJCAI 2022 | paper
Journal Papers:
- 安卓恶意软件对抗样本攻击方法综述
李珩, 吴棒, 龚柱, 高翠莹, 袁巍, 罗夏朴
软件学报 2024 | paper
- Enhancing robustness of person detection: A universal defense filter against adversarial patch attacks
Zimin Mao, Shuiyan Chen, Zhuang Miao, Heng Li#, Beihao Xia, Junzhe Cai, Wei Yuan, Xinge You
Computers & Security 2024 | paper
- Semi-supervised Anomaly Detection with Contamination-resilience and Incremental Training
Liheng Yuan, Fanghua Ye, Heng Li, Chenhao Zhang, Cuiying Gao, Chengqing Yu, Wei Yuan, Xinge You
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2024 | paper
- Adversarial-Example Attacks toward Android Malware Detection System
Heng Li, Shiyao Zhou, Wei Yuan, Henry Leung
IEEE Systems Journal 2019 | paper
- Obfuscation-resilient Android Malware Analysis Based on Complementary Features
Cuiying Gao, Minghui Cai, Shuijun Yin, Gaozhun Huang, Heng Li#, Wei Yuan
IEEE TIFS 2023 (# corresponding author) | paper
- A Lightweight On-device Detection Method for Android Malware
Wei Yuan, Yuan Jiang, Heng Li#, Minghui Cai
IEEE TSMC 2021 (# corresponding author) | paper
- Model Scheduling and Sample Selection for Ensemble Adversarial Example Attacks
Zichao Hu*, Heng Li*, Liheng Yuan, Zhang Cheng, Wei Yuan, Ming Zhu
Pattern Recognition 2022 (* equal contribution) | paper
- Black-box attack against handwritten signature verification with region-restricted adversarial perturbations
Haoyang Li*, Heng Li*, Hansong Zhang, Wei Yuan
Pattern Recognition 2021 (* equal contribution) | paper
- Detecting Android Malware With Pre-Existing Image Classification Neural Networks
Chenhao Zhang, Shuijun Yin, Heng Li, Minghui Cai, Wei Yuan
IEEE Signal Processing Letters 2023 | paper
- Resisting DNN-based Website Fingerprinting Attacks Enhanced by Adversarial Training
Litao Qiao, Bang Wu, Shuijun Yin, Heng Li, Wei Yuan, Xiapu Luo
IEEE TIFS 2023 | paper
- Learning features from enhanced function call graphs for Android malware detection
Minghui Cai, Yuan Jiang, Cuiying Gao, Heng Li, Wei Yuan
Neurocomputing 2020 | paper
Industrial Experience
Alibaba DAMO Academy, Intelligent Computing Lab. Hosted by Hongxia Yang. Jun. 2022 – Sep. 2022.
Project
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF. Jun. 2024 – Jun. 2026.
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. Jun. 2024 – Jun. 2026.