Publications & Invited Talks

Journal Papers

TDSC 2026TriXfer: Triple-Cross Transfer Attack on Vision Transformer–Adapted Downstream Classifiers Mengdie Huang, Yingjun Lin^†, Ninghui Li, Elisa Bertino.

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2026.

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TDSC 2025CARD: Robustness-Preserving Transfer Learning for Network Intrusion Detection via Contrastive Adversarial Representation Distillation Mengdie Huang, Yingjun Lin^†, Ninghui Li, Xiaofeng Chen, Elisa Bertino.

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2025, pp. 5134–5151.

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TOPS 2025Dimensional Robustness Certification for Deep Neural Networks in Network Intrusion Detection Systems Mengdie Huang, Yingjun Lin^†, Xiaofeng Chen, Elisa Bertino.

ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 2025, pp. 1–33.

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TIOT 2024ARIoTEDef: Adversarially Robust IoT Early Defense System based on Self-Evolution against Multistep Attack Mengdie Huang, Hyunwoo Lee, Ashish Kundu, Xiaofeng Chen, Anand Mudgerikar, Ninghui Li, Elisa Bertino.

ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT), 2024, 5(3): 1–34.

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JIT 2019Sparse Selective Encryption for HEVC 4K Video Using Spatial Error Spread Mengdie Huang, Cheng Yang, Hao Li, Jian Shen.

Journal of Internet Technology (JIT), 2019, 20(5): 1589–1600.

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Conference Papers

ICSE 2027Local Nonlinear Substitution for Bounding Activation Functions Zhongkui Ma, Mengdie Huang, Zihan Wang, Elisa Bertino, Guangdong Bai.

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2027.

SIGMOD 2027EntroDelta: An Error-Bounded, Data-Free Compression Framework for Massive Model Storage Yani Liu, Feng Zhang, Yu Zhang, Mengdie Huang, Elisa Bertino, Xiaoyong Du.

ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2027.

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MARS: Robustness Certification for Deep Network Intrusion Detectors via Multi-Order Adaptive Randomized Smoothing

Mengdie Huang, Yingjun Lin^†, Xiaofeng Chen, Elisa Bertino. 🏆 Best PaperTrustCom 2024

IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security, Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2024.

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AsiaCCS 2023Boost Off/On-Manifold Adversarial Robustness for Deep Learning with Latent Representation Mixup Mengdie Huang, Yi Xie, Xiaofeng Chen, Jin Li, Changyu Dong, Zheli Liu, Willy Susilo.

ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2023, pp. 716–730.

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CIC 2023A Pro-Active Defense Framework for IoT Systems Elisa Bertino, Hyunwoo Lee, Mengdie Huang, Charalampos Katsis, Zilin Shen, Bruno Ribeiro, Daniel De Mello, Ashish Kundu.

IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC), 2023, pp. 125–132.

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ESORICS 2022GAME: Generative-based Adaptive Model Extraction Attack Yi Xie, Mengdie Huang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Changyu Dong, Willy Susilo, Xiaofeng Chen.

European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2022, pp. 570–588.

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ICCT 2018Selective Encryption of H.264/AVC based on Block Weight Model Mengdie Huang, Cheng Yang, Yuan Zhang.

IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT), 2018, pp. 1368–1373.

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ICCA 2016An Effective Scheme for Provable Data Possession Shanyue Bu, Mengdie Huang, Kun Yu.

International Conference on Intelligent Control and Computer Application (ICCA), 2016, pp. 344–348.

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Books

Book 2024Searchable Encryption Xiaofeng Chen, Mengdie Huang, et al.

Science Press, China Science Publishing & Media Co., Ltd., 2024.

Book 2023Cloud Computing Security (2nd Edition) Xiaofeng Chen, Mengdie Huang, et al.

Science Press, China Science Publishing & Media Co., Ltd., 2023.

Dissertation

Ph.D. 2025Research on Key Techniques for Adversarial Robustness of Deep Neural Networks Mengdie Huang.

Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Xidian University, 2025.

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Papers Under Review

Under ReviewSTAR: Multi-Level Robustness Injection for Vision Transformer Downstream Adaptation Mengdie Huang, Jason Yuchen Hu^†, Yingjun Lin^†, Ninghui Li, Elisa Bertino.

Submitted, 2027.

Under ReviewGRAFT: Adversarially Robust Transfer Learning for Graphs Under Structural Data Scarcity Mir Imtiaz Mostafiz^*^†, Mengdie Huang^*, Imtiaz Karim, Elisa Bertino.

Submitted, 2027.

Under ReviewCARE: Robust Transformer-based Network Intrusion Detection via Consistency-aware Attention-Representation Enhancement Md Shamsul Kaonain^*^†, Mengdie Huang^*, Imtiaz Karim, Elisa Bertino.

Submitted, 2027.

Under ReviewLocal Knowledge for Global Impact: Evasion Attack Against Vertical Federated Learning Chen Peng^*^†, Mengdie Huang^*, Ninghui Li, Elisa Bertino.

Submitted, 2027.

Manuscripts in Preparation

Membership Inference Attack against Large Vision Language Model
Robust Learning for Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks
Robustness Analysis in Large Vision-Language Model
Functionality-Preserving Adversarial Attacks Against NIDS
Robustness Analysis in VLM-based Agent

Invited Talks

Robustness in Machine Learning — From Non-Adversarial Robustness to LLM Safety (Lecture 2) CS 59200-AAS, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

West Lafayette, IN, USA · Feb 19, 2026

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Robustness in Machine Learning — From Adversarial Robustness to Certified Robustness (Lecture 1) CS 59200-AAS, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

West Lafayette, IN, USA · Feb 17, 2026

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Robustness Certification for Deep Neural Networks in Network Intrusion Detection Systems SPARKS Seminar Series, NSF AI Institute for Future Edge Networks and Distributed Intelligence (AI-EDGE)

Virtual · Dec 8, 2025

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AI Security: Adversarial Attacks and Robustness in Deep Learning School of AI and Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University

Virtual · Oct 8, 2025

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