👨🏼🎓 About Me
I am currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Ministry of Education Key Lab for Intelligent Networks and Network Security, Xi’an Jiaotong University, advised by Assoc. Prof. Junzhou Zhao and Prof. Pinghui Wang. Before that, I received my M.Eng. degree and B.Eng. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University and Harbin Engineering University, respectively. From September 2025 to September 2026, I was a visiting Ph.D. student at the ASTAPLE Lab, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, advised by Prof. Haibo Hu.
My research interests focus on AI for Cybersecurity and AI for System Dependability:
- AI for Cybersecurity: online and robust encrypted traffic identification systems, deployable intrusion detection systems.
- AI for System Dependability: reliable fault detection, root-cause analysis solutions for network/cloud systems.
🔥 News
- 2026.08: 🎉🎉 Our mobile app traffic fingerprinting paper is accepted by NDSS 2027 (CCF-A)!
- 2025.10: 🎉🎉 Our VoIP traffic analysis paper is accepted by Chinese Journal of Computers 2026 (CCF-T1)!
- 2024.12: 🎉🎉 Our cloud system failure diagnosis paper is accepted by ACM/IEEE ICSE-SEIP 2025 (CCF-A)!
- 2023.11: 🎉🎉 Our streaming data early classification paper is accepted by IEEE ICDE 2024 (CCF-A)!
📝 Publications
- [NDSS’27] Tao Duan, Junzhou Zhao, Jianglong Li, Ronghua Li, Youqian Zhang, Nuo Xu, Pinghui Wang, and Haibo Hu. “MAppPrint: Robust and Real-time Mobile App Fingerprinting via Traffic Behavior Correlation Graphs”. NDSS, 2027. [accepted; to appear]
- [CJC’26] Junzhou Zhao, Tao Duan, Jianglong Li, Pinghui Wang, and Jing Tao. “Encrypted VoIP Network Traffic Recognition via Aligning Voice Spectra and Packet Length”. Chinese Journal of Computers, 2026. [Paper]
- [ICSE’25] Tao Duan, Runqing Chen, Pinghui Wang, Junzhou Zhao, Jiongzhou Liu, Shujie Han, Yi Liu, and Fan Xu. “BSODiag: A Global Diagnosis Framework for Batch Servers Outage in Large-scale Cloud Infrastructure Systems”. In Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025. [Paper] [Slides]
- [ICDE’24] Tao Duan, Junzhou Zhao, Shuo Zhang, Jing Tao, and Pinghui Wang. “Representation Learning of Tangled Key-Value Sequence Data for Early Classification”. In Proceedings of the 41th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2024. [Paper] [Slides] [Code] [Dataset]
💻 Internships
Alibaba Cloud Computing. [Research Intern]
- Research on batch servers outage diagnosis in large-scale cloud infrastructure systems.
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. [Research Intern]
- Research on multimodal pretraining for 5GC network failure detection.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- Champion (Team Captain) in HBM Failure Prediction Competition, 2025.
- Huawei Scholarship, 2022.
- Second Prize in National College Mathematics Competition, 2019.
- Champion (Team Captain) in China Robot Competition, 2018.
- First Prize (Team Captain) in RoboCup China Open, 2018.
- Second Prize (Team Captain) in National College Optoelectronic Design Competition, 2018.
- Second Prize (Team Member) in China Robot Competition, 2018.