Full Publications

Conference
  1. Bo Zhang, Helei Cui*, Cong Wang, Xingliang Yuan, Zhiwen Yu, and Bin Guo, "O-TSN: Enabling Oblivious Traffic Switch for Time-Sensitive Networking", in the 45th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Tokyo, Japan, 18-21 May, 2026. CCF-A

  2. Bo Zhang, Helei Cui*, Xingliang Yuan, Zhiwen Yu, and Bin Guo, "V-ORAM: A Versatile and Adaptive ORAM Framework with Service Transformation for Dynamic Workloads", in the 34th USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY), Seattle, Washington, USA, 13-15 Aug, 2025. CCF-A Big 4

  3. Hao Zeng, Helei Cui*, Cong Wang, Bo Zhang, Zhiwen Yu, and Bin Guo, "SenFEED: Dynamic Decentralized Oracle Services for Accurate and Real-Time Sensor Data", in the 44th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), London, United Kingdom, 19-22 May, 2025. CCF-A

  4. Jingjie Zhou, Hao Zeng, Helei Cui*, Xiaoning Liu, Zhiwen Yu, and Bin Guo, "TrustLive: Dynamic and Efficient Trust Evaluation in SIoT with Graph Neural Networks", in the 33rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Gold Coast, Australia, 2-4 Jul, 2025. CCF-B

  5. Mai Sun, Helei Cui*, Cong Wang, Xiaolong Zheng, Bin Guo, and Zhiwen Yu, "AutoCut: Multi-Objective Offloading Service for Heterogeneous DNN in Internet of Things", in the 33rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Gold Coast, Australia, 2-4 Jul, 2025. CCF-B

  6. Yimeng Liu, Zhiwen Yu, Fengyuan Zhang, Helei Cui, and Bin Guo, "Wisdom of Crowds: A Human-Machine-Things Cooperative Scheduling Method for Heterogeneous Mobile Crowdsensing", in the 27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), San José, Costa Rica, 9-13 Nov, 2024. CCF-A

  7. Yanze Xie, Mengzhen Gao, Xiaoning Liu, Shuo Huang, Helei Cui*, Zhiwen Yu, and Bin Guo, "EarPass: Unlock When Wearing Your Earphones", in the 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, 23-26 Jul, 2024. CCF-B

  8. Zhonghao Liu, Xinwei Zhang, Guyue Li, Helei Cui, Jiaheng Wang, and Bin Xiao*, "A Secure and Reliable Blockchain-based Audit Log System", in the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Denver, Colorado, USA, 9-13 Jun, 2024.

  9. Mengzhen Gao, Helei Cui*, Yanze Xie, Yaxing Chen, Zhiwen Yu, Bin Guo, and Xingliang Yuan, "Practical Earphone Eavesdropping with Built-in Motion Sensors", in the 29th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Ocean Flower Island, China, 17-21 Dec, 2023.

  10. Tao Xing, Helei Cui*, Yaxing Chen, Zihui Luo, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu, Xiaobing Guo, and Yirong Ma, "Harnessing Edge Computing Resources for Accelerating Industrial Tasks", in the 19th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN), Nanjing, China, 14-16 Dec, 2023.

  11. Fengyuan Zhang, Zhiwen Yu*, Yimeng Liu, Helei Cui, and Bin Guo, "Spatio-Temporal Feature Based Multi-Participant Recruitment in Heterogeneous Crowdsensing", in the 19th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), Haikou, China, 15-18 Dec, 2022.

  12. Tieniu Xu, Zhiwen Yu*, Yongbo Song, Jiaju Ren, Helei Cui, and Bin Guo, "Joint Computing Resource Scheduling and Task Priority Selection in UAV-Enabled MEC", in the 19th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), Haikou, China, 15-18 Dec, 2022.

  13. Helei Cui, Tao Xing, Jiaju Ren, Yaxing Chen, Zhiwen Yu*, Bin Guo, and Xiaobing Guo, "eSwin-UNet: A Collaborative Model for Industrial Surface Defect Detection", in the 28th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Nanjing, China, 14-16 Dec, 2022.

  14. Zihui Luo, Xiaolong Zheng*, Bo Wang, Qifeng Meng, Helei Cui, Xiaobing Guo, and Liang Liu, "Hierarchical Computing Network Collaboration Architecture for Industrial Internet of Things", in the 28th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Nanjing, China, 14-16 Dec, 2022.

  15. Bo Zhang, Helei Cui*, Yaxing Chen, Xiaoning Liu, Zhiwen Yu, and Bin Guo, "Enabling Secure Deduplication in Encrypted Decentralized Storage", in the 16th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS), Denarau Island, Fiji, 9-12 Dec, 2022.

  16. Xuan Zhang, Helei Cui, Zhiwen Yu*, and Bin Guo, "Environment-Driven Task Allocation in Heterogeneous Spatial Crowdsourcing", in the 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 4-8 Dec, 2022.

  17. Ziqi Wang, Bin Guo*, Helei Cui, Yasan Ding, and Zhiwen Yu, "Fashion Meets Bot: What Should the Bot Wear?", in IEEE 25th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD), Hangzhou, China, 4-6 May, 2022.

  18. Ziqi Wang, Bin Guo*, Hao Wang, Helei Cui, Yang He, and Zhiwen Yu, "MateBot: The Design of a Human-Like, Context-Sensitive Virtual Bot for Harmonious Human-Computer Interaction", in the 15th International Conference on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing (GPC), Xi'an, China, 13-15 Nov, 2020.

  19. Jing Yao, Helei Cui, and Xiaolin Gui*, "Secure Boolean Queries over Encrypted Data from Indistinguishability Obfuscation", in IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC), Hangzhou, China, 18-20 Nov, 2019.

  20. Hao Wang, Zhiwen Yu*, Yimeng Liu, Bin Guo, Liang Wang, and Helei Cui, "Crowdchain: A Location Preserve Anonymous Payment System Based on Permissioned Blockchain", in 2019 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT), Tianjin, China, 9-11 Aug, 2019.

  21. Helei Cui, Huayi Duan, Zhan Qin, Cong Wang*, and Yajin Zhou, "SPEED: Accelerating Enclave Applications via Secure Deduplication", in the 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Dallas, Texas, USA, 7-10 Jul, 2019. CCF-B

  22. Helei Cui, Yajin Zhou, Cong Wang*, Qi Li, and Kui Ren, "Towards Privacy-Preserving Malware Detection Systems for Android", in the 24th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Sentosa, Singapore, 11-13 Dec, 2018. (Best Paper Award)

  23. Helei Cui, Cong Wang*, Yu Hua, Yuefeng Du, and Xingliang Yuan, "A Bandwidth-Efficient Middleware for Encrypted Deduplication", in IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China, 10-13 Dec, 2018.

  24. Helei Cui, Xingliang Yuan, Yifeng Zheng, and Cong Wang*, "Enabling Secure and Effective Near-duplicate Detection over Encrypted In-network Storage", in the 35th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), San Francisco, California, USA, 10-15 Apr, 2016. CCF-A (Acceptance rate = 300/1644 = 18.25%)

  25. Xingliang Yuan, Helei Cui, Xinyu Wang, and Cong Wang*, "Enabling Privacy-assured Similarity Retrieval over Millions of Encrypted Records", in the 20th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Vienna, Austria, 21-25 Sep, 2015. CCF-B (Acceptance rate = 58/293 = 19.8%)

  26. Helei Cui, Xingliang Yuan, and Cong Wang*, "Harnessing Encrypted Data in Cloud for Secure and Efficient Image Sharing from Mobile Devices", in the 34th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Hong Kong, China, 28-30 Apr, 2015. CCF-A (Acceptance rate = 316/1640 = 19.2%)

Journal
  1. Hao Zeng, Helei Cui*, Xiaoli Zhang, Bo Zhang, Yuefeng Du, Bin Guo, and Zhiwen Yu, "DCrowd: Decentralized Mobile Crowdsensing via Proof of Task Assignment Blockchain", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 6281-6295, 2025. CCF-A

  2. Hao Zeng, Helei Cui*, Man Li, Bo Zhang, Chengjun Cai, Zhiwen Yu, and Bin Guo, "Decentralized and Fair Trading via Blockchain: The Journey So Far and the Road Ahead", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 4379-4397, 2025. CCF-A

  3. Erhe Yang, Zhiwen Yu, Yao Zhang, Helei Cui, Zhaoxiang Huang, Hui Wang, Jiaju Ren, and Bin Guo, "Joint Semantic Extraction and Resource Optimization in Communication-Efficient UAV Crowdsensing", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), In Press, 2025.

  4. Wen Gao, Zhiwen Yu, Tianfu Wang, Liang Wang, Helei Cui, Bin Guo, and Hui Xiong, "GNN-based deep reinforcement learning for computation task scheduling in autonomous multi-robot systems", Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA), vol. 168, pp. 103534, 2025. CCF-B

  5. En Xu, Kai Zhao, Zhiwen Yu, Hui Wang, Siyuan Ren, Helei Cui, Yunji Liang, and Bin Guo, "Upper Bound on the Predictability of Rating Prediction in Recommender Systems", Information Processing and Management (IPM), vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 103950, 2025. CCF-B

  6. Wen Gao, Zhiwen Yu*, Liang Wang, Helei Cui, Bin Guo, and Hui Xiong*, "Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning for Computation Offloading in Autonomous Multi-Robot Systems", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 540-547, 2025.

  7. Zhiwen Yu*, Lele Zhao, Helei Cui*, Yongbo Song, Yimeng Liu, Yixuan Luo, and Bin Guo, "CrowdKit: A Generic Programming Framework for Mobile Crowdsensing Applications", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 10584-10597, 2024. CCF-A

  8. Dabao Wang, Bang Wu, Xingliang Yuan*, Lei Wu, Yajin Zhou, and Helei Cui, "DeFiGuard: A Price Manipulation Detection Service in DeFi Using Graph Neural Networks", IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 3345-3358, 2024. CCF-A

  9. Xiaoli Zhang, Wenxiang Sun, Zhicheng Xu, Hongbing Cheng*, Chengjun Cai, Helei Cui, and Qi Li, "EVM-Shield: In-Contract State Access Control for Fast Vulnerability Detection and Prevention", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), vol. 19, pp. 2517-2532, 2024. CCF-A

  10. Haoyang Li, Zhiwen Yu*, Yixuan Luo, Helei Cui, and Bin Guo, "ContinuousSensing: a task allocation algorithm for human-robot collaborative mobile crowdsensing with task migration", CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction (TPCI), vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 228-243, 2024.

  11. Bo Zhang, Helei Cui*, Xiaoning Liu, Yaxing Chen, Zhiwen Yu, and Bin Guo, "Decentralized and Secure Deduplication with Dynamic Ownership in MLaaS", Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), vol. 76, pp. 103524, 2023.

  12. Yimeng Liu, Zhiwen Yu*, Helei Cui, Sumi Helal, and Bin Guo, "SafeCity: A Heterogeneous Mobile Crowd Sensing System for Urban Public Safety", IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), vol. 10, no. 20, pp. 18330-18345, 2023.

  13. Helei Cui, Jiahao Liao, Zhiwen Yu*, Yanze Xie, Xiaoning Liu, and Bin Guo, "Trust Assessment for Mobile Crowdsensing via Device Fingerprinting", ISA Transactions Special Issue on Security and Privacy of AI-based Automation Systems, vol. 141, pp. 93-102, 2023.

  14. En Xu, Zhiwen Yu*, Nuo Li, Helei Cui, Lina Yao, and Bin Guo, "Quantifying predictability of sequential recommendation via logical constraints", Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), 17(5): 175612, 2023. CCF-B

  15. Yuefeng Du, Huayi Duan, Lei Xu, Helei Cui, Cong Wang*, and Qian Wang, "PEBA: Enhancing User Privacy and Coverage of Safe Browsing Services", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 4343-4358, 2023. CCF-A

  16. Xiang Liu, Weiwei Wu, Wanyuan Wang, Yuhang Xu, Xiumin Wang, and Helei Cui, "Budget-feasible Sybil-proof mechanisms for crowdsensing", Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), vol. 970, pp. 113978, 2023. CCF-B

  17. Yuhang Xu, Yan Lyu, Guangwei Xiong, Shuyu Wang, Weiwei Wu, Helei Cui, and Junzhou Luo, "Adaptive Feature Fusion Networks for Origin-Destination Passenger Flow Prediction in Metro Systems", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS), vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 5296-5312, 2023. CCF-B

  18. Yixuan Luo, Zhiwen Yu*, Houchun Yin, Helei Cui, and Bin Guo, "Multi‐agent mobile crowdsensing by pervasive machines: a robust task allocation approach", CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction (TPCI), vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 13-30, 2023.

  19. Boqi Zhang, Xuyang Feng, Chen Qiu*, Bin Guo, Helei Cui, and Zhiwen Yu, "SFSN: Smart Frame Selection Network for Multi-task Human Synthesis on Mobile Devices", Wireless Networks (WINET), 2022.

  20. Yilan Li, Yantao Lu, Helei Cui*, and Senem Velipasalar, "Improving Robustness and Efficiency of Edge Computing Models", Wireless Networks (WINET), 2022.

  21. Wanyu Lin, Helei Cui, Baochun Li*, and Cong Wang, "Privacy-Preserving Similarity Search with Efficient Updates in Distributed Key-Value Stores", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 1072-1084, 2021. CCF-A

  22. En Xu, Zhiwen Yu*, Bin Guo, and Helei Cui, "Core Interest Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction", ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 1-16, 2021. CCF-B

  23. Helei Cui, Yajin Zhou*, Cong Wang, Xinyu Wang, Yuefeng Du, and Qian Wang, "PPSB: An Open and Flexible Platform for Privacy-Preserving Safe Browsing", IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 1762-1778, 2021. CCF-A [] 

    @article{CUIZW2019TDSC,
  title={PPSB: An Open and Flexible Platform for Privacy-Preserving Safe Browsing},
  author={Cui, Helei and Zhou, Yajin and Wang, Cong and Wang, Xinyu and Du, Yuefeng and Wang, Qian},
  journal={IEEE Trans. on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)},
  volume={18},
  number={4},
  pages={1762--1778},
  year={2021}
}

  24. Helei Cui, Xingliang Yuan, Yifeng Zheng, and Cong Wang*, "Towards Encrypted In-Network Storage Services with Secure Near-Duplicate Detection", IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 998-1012, 2021. CCF-A [] 

    @article{CUIYZ2018TSC,
  title={Towards Encrypted In-Network Storage Services with Secure Near-Duplicate Detection},
  author={Cui, Helei and Yuan, Xingliang and Zheng, Yifeng and Wang, Cong},
  journal={IEEE Trans. on Services Computing (TSC)},
  volume={14},
  number={4},
  pages={998--1012},
  year={2021}
}

  25. Yifeng Zheng, Helei Cui, Cong Wang*, and Jiantao Zhou, "Privacy-Preserving Image Denoising from External Cloud Databases", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 1285-1298, 2017. CCF-A [] 

    @article{ZHENGCW2017TIFS,
  title={Privacy-preserving image denoising from external cloud databases},
  author={Zheng, Yifeng and Cui, Helei and Wang, Cong and Zhou, Jiantao},
  journal={IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)},
  volume={12},
  number={6},
  pages={1285--1298},
  year={2017}
}

  26. Helei Cui, Xingliang Yuan, and Cong Wang*, "Harnessing Encrypted Data in Cloud for Secure and Efficient Mobile Image Sharing", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 1315-1329, 2017. CCF-A [] 

    @article{CUIYW2017TMC,
  title={Harnessing encrypted data in cloud for secure and efficient mobile image sharing},
  author={Cui, Helei and Yuan, Xingliang and Wang, Cong},
  journal={IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing (TMC)},
  volume={16},
  number={5},
  pages={1315--1329},
  year={2017}
}

Granted Patent
  1. 崔禾磊，杨益滔，丁亚三，邱晨，郭斌，於志文，“一种隐私保护的社交媒体假消息检测方法”，中国发明专利，授权日：2025年4月18日.

  2. 陈亚兴，郑庆华，闫峥，杨长安，崔禾磊，於志文，郭斌，“一种面向SQL型机密数据库的查询优化方法”，中国发明专利，授权日：2025年4月11日.

  3. 崔禾磊，张博，陈亚兴，於志文，郭斌，“一种面向去中心化云存储的客户端安全数据去重方法”，中国发明专利，授权日：2024年10月25日.

  4. 於志文，廖佳豪，崔禾磊，郭斌，“基于设备指纹识别的感知数据可信度评估方法及系统”，中国发明专利，授权日：2024年9月6日.

  5. 崔禾磊，彭文颖，陈亚兴，於志文，邢涛，郭斌，“一种面向工业任务边缘节点的计算资源架构及调度方法”，中国发明专利，授权日：2024年8月9日.

  6. 於志文，苏江宾，刘一萌，郭斌，崔禾磊，“面向群智感知的数据处理方法及装置”，中国发明专利，授权日：2024年2月6日.

  7. 於志文，王皓，刘一萌，郭斌，王亮，崔禾磊，“一种基于许可链的群智感知位置隐私保护支付方法”，中国发明专利，授权日：2023年7月4日.

  8. 於志文，李顺，刘一萌，郭斌，崔禾磊，“一种面向群智感知数据的流计算处理方法”，中国发明专利，授权日：2022年9月16日.

  9. 崔禾磊，於志文，郭斌，谢炎泽，刘欢，“一种隐私保护安全浏览方法”，中国发明专利，授权日：2022年8月5日.

  10. Cong Wang, Helei Cui, and Huayi Duan, "Method for Accelerating Execution of Application in a Trusted Execution Environment", US Patent, Granted, 19 Jul, 2022.

Last Update: December, 2025