Guangquan Xu

Biography

Guangquan Xu is a Chair Professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Cybersecurity, Tianjin University. He received his B.E. degree from Tianjin University of Technology and Education in 2002, his M.E. degree from Tianjin University in 2005, and his Ph.D. degree from Tianjin University in 2008. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Hosei University, Japan, from 2013 to 2014. His research focuses on network and information security, trusted computing, and AI security.

He has published more than 200 papers, including over 50 CCF-A / CAS Q1 papers in the past five years, authorized 24 invention patents, published 3 academic monographs, and participated in the formulation of national and industry standards. His work has been recognized by multiple provincial and ministerial awards and has been applied in public security, government, telecommunications, aerospace, and critical infrastructure domains.

Research Interests

Network and Information Security Trusted Computing Artificial Intelligence Security Configuration Security System Security

Projects

  • 2023–2026 区块链驱动的云边端安全协同与可信交互理论及关键技术，国家自然科学基金联合基金重点项目，项目负责人。
  • 2024–2026 Web3.0 共建共治生态治理机制，国家重点研发计划课题，核心研究人员。
  • 2021–2024 基于人工智能的国密产业网络安全综合检测平台，产业项目，项目负责人。
  • 2022–2025 全要素高效可信分布式隐私训练框架，国家重点研发计划子课题，核心成员。
  • 2024–2025 国家重点研发计划安全方向课题，项目负责人。

Selected Publications

Lurking in the Shadows: Unveiling Stealthy Backdoor Attacks against Personalized Federated Learning

Xiaoting Lyu, Yufei Han, Wei Wang, Jingkai Liu, Yongsheng Zhu, Guangquan Xu, Jiqiang Liu, Xiangliang Zhang

USENIX Security Symposium, 2024

CCF-A

Toward Robust and Effective Behavior Based User Authentication With Off-the-Shelf Wi-Fi

Lei Zhang, Yunzhe Jiang, Yazhou Ma, Shiwen Mao, Wenyuan Huang, Zhiyong Yu, Xiao Zheng, Lin Shu, Xiaochen Fan, Guangquan Xu, Changyu Dong

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 19: 8731-8746, 2024

CCF-A · SCI一区

OFEI: A Semi-Black-Box Android Adversarial Sample Attack Framework Against DLaaS

Guangquan Xu*, Guohua Xin, Litao Jiao, Jian Liu, Shaoying Liu, Meiqi Feng, Xi Zheng

IEEE Transactions on Computers, 73: 956-969, 2024

CCF-A

ValidCNN: A Large-Scale CNN Predictive Integrity Verification Scheme Based on zk-SNARK

Yongkai Fan, Kaile Ma, Linlin Zhang, Xia Lei, Guangquan Xu, Gang Tan

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 21(6): 5185-5195, 2024

CCF-A · SCI一区

Multi-Misconfiguration Diagnosis via Identifying Correlated Configuration Parameters

Yingnan Zhou, Xue Hu, Sihan Xu, Yan Jia, Yuhao Liu, Junyong Wang, Guangquan Xu, Wei Wang, Shaoying Liu, Thar Baker

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 49(10): 4624-4638, 2023

CCF-A · SCI一区

JSCSP: A Novel Policy-Based XSS Defense Mechanism for Browsers

Guangquan Xu*, Xiaofei Xie, Shuhan Huang, Jun Zhang, Lei Pan, Wei Lou, Kaitai Liang

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 19(2): 862-878, 2022

CCF-A · SCI一区

DynaComm: Accelerating Distributed CNN Training Between Edges and Clouds Through Dynamic Communication Scheduling

Shangming Cai, Dongsheng Wang, Haixia Wang, Yongqiang Lyu, Guangquan Xu, Xi Zheng, Athanasios V. Vasilakos

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 40: 611-625, 2022

CCF-A

Sparse Trust Data Mining

Pengli Nie, Guangquan Xu, Litao Jiao, Shaoying Liu, Jian Liu, Weizhi Meng, Hongyue Wu, Meiqi Feng, Weizhe Wang, Zhengjun Jing, Xi Zheng

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 16: 4559-4573, 2021

CCF-A · SCI一区

BAS-NDN: BlockChain based mobile producer authentication scheme for Named Data Networking

Guangquan Xu, Chenghe Dong, Cong Wang, Feng Feng

Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 237: 104135, 2025

SCI一区

Differential-Trust-Mechanism-Based Trade-Off Method Between Privacy and Accuracy in Recommender Systems

Guangquan Xu, Shicheng Feng, Hao Xi, Qingyang Yan, Wenshan Li, Cong Wang, Wei Wang, Shaoying Liu, Zhihong Tian, James Xi Zheng

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 20: 5054-5068, 2025

SCI一区

CPFL: An Effective Secure Cognitive Personalized Federated Learning Mechanism for Industry 4.0

Jinyan Wang, Guangquan Xu, Wenqing Lei, Lixiao Gong, Xi Zheng, Shaoying Liu

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 18(10): 7186-7195, 2022

SCI一区

Higher-Order Multiple-Feature-based Community Evolution Model with Potential Applications in Criminal Network Investigation

Xiaoming Li, Guangquan Xu, Changzheng Liu, Wei Yu, Zhao Liu, Zhenhuan Wu, Xiaoping Yang

Future Generation Computer Systems, 125: 364-375, 2021

SCI一区

A Network Security Situation Assessment Method Based on Adversarial Deep Learning

Hongyu Yang, Renyun Zeng, Guangquan Xu, Liang Zhang

Applied Soft Computing, 102: 107096, 2021

SCI一区

Energy-Efficient and Trustworthy Data Collection Protocol Based on Mobile Fog Computing in Internet of Things

Tian Wang, Lei Qiu, Arun Kumar Sangaiah, Guangquan Xu, Anfeng Liu

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 16(5): 3531-3539, 2020

SCI一区

Selected Honors

  • 2024 年天津市科技进步一等奖
  • 2020 年教育部高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖（科学技术）二等奖
  • 2019 年天津市科技进步一等奖
  • 2023 年天津市网络安全优秀案例奖
  • 国家级科技创新领军人才
  • 中央网信办网络安全实战型人才
  • IET Fellow
  • 全球前 2% 顶尖科学家榜单入选者