Assistant Professor at ZJU

Mingxue ZHANG (张明雪)

About Me

I am currently a tenure-track assistant professor at the School of Cyber Science and Technology in Zhejiang University. My research interests include web security and software security. Recently, I have been focusing on 1) investigating security threats on the web and other related applications, e.g., WebView-based mobile apps, and 2) AI-facilitated program analysis and its reliability.

I received my Ph.D. degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2022, where I was fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Wei Meng. Prior to CUHK, I received my B.Eng in Computer Science and Technology from Wuhan University (Hongyi Talent Class) in 2018.

Recruiment

I am looking for mentally healthy, self-motivated, and smart Ph.D. and master students who have strong programming skills. You may find more information about our application and admission process here.

💡 Please note that our group works on technically challenging problems. I would provide support and help whenever necessary. In the meanwhile, I expect the students to have solid background in computer science, be willing to learn, and be prepared to overcome challenges.

💡 Also, we have several application cycles for both Ph.D. and master students, and we welcome undergraduate students who wish to publish at top-tier conferences to join us. However, we only have a few openings each year. Therefore, if you are interested, please contact me via emails as early as possible.

News

  • [2024.10] Our CCS’24 paper received the Distinguished Paper Award!
  • [2024.09] Our paper on Android malware detection has been accepted by TIFS. Congrats!
  • [2024.08] Our paper on DNS tunnel detection has been accepted by TIFS. Congrats!
  • [2024.04] I am on the Program Committee of NDSS’25.
  • [2024.04] Our paper on cache-based optimization of web application fuzzing has been accepted by CCS’24. Congrats!

Services

Teaching

  • Software Security, Spring 2024
  • Introduction to Cyber Security, Spring 2024
  • Object-oriented Programming in C++, Fall 2024

Technical Program Committee

  • The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2025)
  • IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025)
  • International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2024)
  • SecWeb Workshop 2024
  • ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundation of Software Engineering/ European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC/FSE 2023)

Journal Reviewer

  • Empirical Software Engineering
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking