Our team won the Grand Prize in the Finals of the 11th Network Technology Challenge (第十一届中国高校计算机大赛—网络技术挑战赛总决赛全国特等奖). Congratulations to Jiaye Fang, Junlin Li, Xiang Liu, Ke Liang, and Xudong Jiang.
01Latest News
2026
Now
Our team won the National First Prize in the 2nd University Student Artificial Intelligence Security Competition (2026第二届大学生人工智能安全竞赛全国一等奖). Congratulations to Jiaye Fang, Ke Liang, Yunxuan Liu, and Xudong Jiang.
02Run Wang was invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee for USENIX Security 2027.
03One paper was accepted by ICML 2026. Congratulations to Yanhao Wei.
04One paper was accepted by ACM CCS 2026. Congratulations to Yuyang Zhang.
052025
Growth
One paper was accepted by USENIX Security 2026. Congratulations to Yuyang Zhang and Xudong Jiang.
06Our team won the National First Prize in the 4th “HUAWEI Cup” China Post-Graduate Cyber Security Innovation Contest (“华为杯”第四届中国研究生网络安全创新大赛全国一等奖). Congratulations to Yuhang Ma, Xudong Jiang, Yuxiang Sun, and Yiwen Liu.
07Two papers were accepted by AAAI 2026. Congratulations to Xi Ye and Bo Zeng.
08Two papers were accepted by NeurIPS 2025. Congratulations to Mengjie Wu and Boheng Li.
09One paper was accepted by IEEE S&P 2026. Congratulations to Boheng Li.
10NSFC will fund our research on securing text-to-image models.
11Yuyang Zhang’s project “Forgery Faces Detection” was approved for Network Security Phase III funding.
12One paper was accepted by ICCV 2025. Congratulations to Wei Xu.
13One paper was accepted by USENIX Security 2025. Congratulations to Yuyang Zhang.
14Undergraduate students Xudong Jiang, Kaifeng Zhang, and Yilin Zhao won First Prize in Wuhan University’s 16th “Ziqiang Cup” College Students’ Extracurricular Scientific and Technological Innovation Contest. View announcement ↗
15One paper was accepted by IJCAI 2025. Congratulations to Xi Ye.
162024
Momentum
Two papers were accepted by AAAI 2025. Congratulations to Yihao Huang and Ziyou Liang.
17One paper was accepted by IEEE TIFS 2024. Congratulations to Chenhao Lin and Xiang Ji.
18Our team won National First Prize in the 19th “Challenge Cup” Competition Announcement Track (第十九届挑战杯揭榜挂帅赛道全国一等奖). Congratulations to Jiaxi Qiu, Jie Yang, and Leyang Wu. View report ↗
19One paper was accepted by IEEE S&P 2025. Congratulations to Boheng Li and Yanhao Wei.
20One paper was accepted by NeurIPS 2024. Congratulations to Weifeng Liu and Tianyi She.
21Undergraduate students Weifeng Liu, Tianyi Yu, Yan Cai, and Jiawei Liu won Second Prize in the National College Student Information Security Competition (全国大学生信息安全竞赛全国二等奖).
22One paper was accepted by ICML 2024. Congratulations to Boheng Li and Yishuo Cai.
23Yuyang Zhang’s project “Secure Black Sample Generation” was approved for Network Security Phase II funding.
24Mengjie Wu’s project “Large Language Model (LLM) Attack Technology Research” was approved for Network Security Phase II funding.
25Run Wang was awarded early tenure at Wuhan University, with gratitude to the students, team leader, and family whose support made it possible.
262023
Recognition
Team “DeepRadar” won Second Prize in the 2nd “HUAWEI Cup” China Post-Graduate Cyber Security Innovation Contest. Congratulations to Wei Wang, Yuyang Zhang, Ziyou Liang, and Mengjie Wu.
27Team “泰Kun啦” won the Investment Value Award—the highest award, with an award rate below 0.1%—at the 2023 Cyber Security Outstanding Innovation Achievement Competition.
28NSFOCUS sponsored our research on defending real-time interactive DeepFakes through the CCF–NSFOCUS “Kunpeng” Research Fund (CCF-绿盟科技“鲲鹏”科研基金).
29Master’s students Ziheng Huang, Jixing Ren, and Yuyang Zhang received the National Scholarship (top 0.2% nationwide).
30Undergraduate students Boheng Li and Yan Cai received the National Scholarship (top 0.2% nationwide).
31Team “泰Kun啦” won First Prize and the Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial Value Award at the 16th National College Student Information Security Contest. Congratulations to Yuyang Zhang, Mingming Zhang, Jinzhao Lv, and Muyang Li.
32One paper was accepted by ACM Multimedia 2023. Congratulations to Jixing Ren, Boheng Li, Tianyi She, and Wenhui Zhang.
33One paper was accepted by ICCV 2023. Congratulations to Ziheng Huang, Boheng Li, and Yan Cai.
342022
Foundation
Team “Face-Guardian” won First Prize—the highest award, with an award rate below 1.4%—in the 1st “HUAWEI Cup” China Post-Graduate Cyber Security Innovation Contest. Congratulations to Ziheng Huang, Yuyang Zhang, Boheng Li, and Jixing Ren.
35Team “AntiE” won the National Gold Prize—the highest award, with an award rate below 0.01%—in the 8th China College Students “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. Congratulations to Jiahao Zhou, Boheng Li, Tingyu Luo, Xinyue Zhang, Sixing Lin, Tong Zong, Zhuoyuan Wu, Chang Lu, Jie Xiao, Yiqing Li, Hanrui Yao, Weijing Li, and Fan Wang.
36Yuyang Zhang, Qiqi Lin, Boheng Li, Wenhui Zhang, Yankai Fu, and Tianyi She received the National Scholarship (top 0.2% nationwide); Boheng Li was named Pacemaker to Merit Student (三好学生标兵, top 0.1% at WHU).
37NSFC funded our research on DeepFake video forensics.
38One paper was accepted by ACM Multimedia 2022. Congratulations to undergraduate students Haoxuan Li and Lingzhou Mu.
39Two papers were accepted by IJCAI 2022.
40Our survey “Countering Malicious DeepFakes: Survey, Battleground, and Horizon” was accepted by the International Journal of Computer Vision.
412021
New chapter
Our survey “Towards a Robust Deep Neural Network against Adversarial Texts: A Survey” was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
42Our DeepFake provenance work, FakeTagger, received English and Chinese media coverage.
43“FakeTagger: Robust Safeguards against DeepFake Dissemination via Provenance Tracking” was accepted by ACM Multimedia 2021.
44Run Wang joined Wuhan University as an associate professor.
45Our comprehensive survey “Countering Malicious DeepFakes: Survey, Battleground, and Horizon” became available on arXiv.
462020
Research
Four papers were accepted by ACM Multimedia 2020.
47Our paper “FakeSpotter” was accepted by IJCAI 2020.
482019
Early work
Our FakeSpotter research was reported by Synced AI Technology and Industry Review in “AI vs AI: ‘FakeSpotter’ Studies Neurons to Bust DeepFakes.”
49Our paper “SmartPI” was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
50Two papers were published by the Journal of Software.
51Run Wang began working as a postdoctoral research fellow with Prof. Yang Liu at Nanyang Technological University.
522018
Beginning
Run Wang defended his PhD thesis, “Research on Android Malware Detection and Software Vulnerability Analysis.”
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