Lei Xue

Associate Professor, PhD Supervisor

School of Cyber Science and Technology
Sun Yat-Sen University

Room 2-816, Engineering building, SYSU,
Guangming, Shenzhen, Guang Dong, China

E-mail: qqxuelei (at) gmail.com

Biography

Dr. Lei Xue is an associate professor in School of Cyber Science and Technology at Sun Yat-Sen University. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), advised by Xiapu Luo and co-advised by Jiannong Cao. Before his Ph.D. study, He received the Master and the Bachelor degree from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, advised by Guozi Sun. He also interned in Qihoo360, collaborating with Yajin Zhou, during his Ph.D. study.

Dr. Lei Xue is widely interested in designing and implementing efficient and practical security systems, with a particular focus on applying hybrid program/application analysis techniques, network traffic analysis methodology, and machine learning based alogrithms to addressing challenging security and privacy issues in mobile, automotive, and network systems. Currently, his research topics mainly foucus on mobile and IoT system security, program analysis, and automotive security.

Publication

Attention! Your Copied Data is Under Monitoring: A Systematic Study of Clipboard Usage in Android Apps [Paper]
Yongliang Chen, Ruoqin Tang, Chaoshun Zuo, Xiaokuan Zhang, Lei Xue, Xiapu Luo, Qingchuan Zhao
Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2024
(Distinguished Paper Award)

Ensemble Framework Combining Family Information for Android Malware Detection [Paper]
Yao Li, Zhi Xiong, Tao Zhang, Qinkun Zhang, Ming Fan, Lei Xue
The Computer Journal, 2023

XPorter: A Study of the Multi-Port Charger Security on Privacy Leakage and Voice Injection [Paper]
Tao Ni, Yongliang Chen, Weitao Xu, Lei Xue, Qingchuan Zhao
Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom), 2023

On Smartly Scanning of the Internet of Things [Paper]
Jian Qu, Xiaobo Ma, Wenmao Liu, Hongqing Sang, Jianfeng Li, Lei Xue, Xiapu Luo, Zhenhua Li, Li Feng, Xiaohong Guan
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2023

State-Aware Unsafe Driving Action Detection and Defense [Poster]
Tianqi Li, Rujun Hu, Lei Xue, Xiapu Luo
Proceedings of IEEE 43rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2023

The impact of class imbalance techniques on crashing fault residence prediction models [Paper]
Kunsong Zhao, Zhou Xu, Meng Yan, Tao Zhang, Lei Xue, Ming Fan, Jacky Keung
Empirical Software Engineering, 2023

An Input-Agnostic Hierarchical Deep Learning Framework for Traffic Fingerprinting [Paper]
Jian Qu, Xiaobo Ma, Jianfeng Li, Xiapu Luo, Lei Xue, Junjie Zhang, Zhenhua Li, Li Feng, Xiaohong Guan
Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2023

SAID: State-aware Defense Against Injection Attacks on In-vehicle Network [Paper] [Tool]
Lei Xue, Yangyang Liu, Tianqi Li, Kaifa Zhao, Jianfeng Li, Le Yu, Xiapu Luo, Yajin Zhou, and Guofei Gu
Proceedings of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2022

Resource Allocation of E2E Slices in Softwarized UAVs-Assisted 6G Terrestrial Networks
Haotong Cao, Xiaoming Wang, Rui Jiang, Ting Liu, Lei Xue, and Xiapu Luo
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), 2022
(Best Paper Award)

Towards Automatically Reverse Engineering Vehicle Diagnostic Protocols [Paper]
Le Yu, Yangyang Liu, Pengfei Jing, Xiapu Luo, Lei Xue, Kaifa Zhao, Yajin Zhou, Ting Wang, Guofei Gu, Sen Nie, and Shi Wu
Proceedings of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2022

Landing Reinforcement Learning onto Smart Scanning of The Internet of Things [Paper]
Jian Qu, Xiaobo Ma, Wenmao Liu, Hongqing Sang, Jianfeng Li, Lei Xue, Xiapu Luo, Zhenhua Li, Li Feng, Xiaohong Guan
Procceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2022

A compositional model for effort-aware Just-In-Time defect prediction on android apps [Paper]
Kunsong Zhao, Zhou Xu, Meng Yan, Lei Xue, Wei Li, Gemma Catolino
IET Software, 2022

Graph4Web: A Relation-Aware Graph Attention Network for Web Service Classification [Paper]
Kunsong Zhao, Jin Liu, Zhou Xu, Xiao Liu, Lei Xue, Zhiwen Xie, and Yuxuan Zhou
The Journal of Systems & Software (JSS), Accepted, 2022

Parema: An Unpacking Framework for Demystifying VM-based Android Packers [Paper] [Tool]
Lei Xue, Yuxiao Yan, Luyi Yan, Muhui Jiang, Xiapu Luo, Dinghao Wu, and Yajin Zhou
Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2021

Happer: Unpacking Android Apps via a Hardware-Assisted Approach [Paper] [Tool]
Lei Xue, Hao Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Yajin Zhou, Yang Shi, Guofei Gu, Fengwei Zhang, and Man Ho Au
Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Symposiumon Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), 2021

A Compositional Model for Effort-Aware Just-In-Time Defect Prediction on Android Apps [Paper]
Kunsong Zhao, Zhou Xu, Meng Yan, Lei Xue, Wei Li, and Gemma Catolino
IET Software (IET Software), 2021

Too Good to Be Safe: Tricking Lane Detection in Autonomous Driving with Crafted Perturbations [Paper]
Pengfei Jing, Qiyi Tang, Yuefeng Du, Lei Xue, Xiapu Luo, Ting Wang, Sen Nie, and Shi Wu
Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2021

Demystifying Diehard Android Apps [Paper]
Hao Zhou, Haoyu Wang, Yajin Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Yutian Tang, Lei Xue, and Ting Wang
Proceedings of the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2020

PackerGrind: An Adaptive Unpacking System for Android Apps [Paper] [Tool]
Lei Xue, Hao Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Le Yu, Dinghao Wu, Yajin Zhou, and Xiaobo Ma
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2020

Programmable In-Network Security for Context-aware BYOD Policies [Paper] [Tool]
Qiao Kang, Lei Xue*, Adam Morrison, Yuxin Tang, Ang Chen, and Xiapu Luo (*Co-first author)
Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2020

Integrated security of cyber-physical vehicle networked systems in the age of 5G [Paper]
Xiaobo Ma, Jiahao Peng, Lei Xue, and Xiaohong Guan
SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis (SSI), 2019

Cross Project Defect Prediction via Balanced Distribution Adaptation Based Transfer Learning [Paper]
Zhou Xu, Shuai Pang, Tao Zhang, Xiapu Luo, Jin Liu, Yu-Tian Tang, Xiao Yu, and Lei Xue
Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), 2019

Randomized Security Patrolling for Link Flooding Attack Detection [Paper]
Xiaobo Ma, Bo An, Mengchen Zhao, Xiapu Luo, Lei Xue, Zhenhua Li, TungNgai Miu, and Xiaohong Guan
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2019

NDroid: Towards Tracking Information Flows across Multiple Android Contexts [Paper] [Tool]
Lei Xue, Chenxiong Qian, Hao Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Yajin Zhou, Yuru Shao, and Alvin T.S. Chan
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2019

Shoot at A Pigeon And Kill A Crow: On Strike Precision of Link Flooding Attacks
Jiahao Peng, Xiaobo Ma, Jianfeng Li, Lei Xue, and Wenjun Hu
Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS), 2018

PERDICE: Towards Discovering Software Inefficiencies Leading to Cache Misses and Branch Mispredictions
Ting Chen, Wanyu Huang, Muhui Jiang, Xiapu Luo, Lei Xue, Ying Wang, and Xiaosong Zhang
Proceedings of 42nd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2018

Enforcing Context-Aware BYOD Policies with In-Network Security [Paper]
Adam Morrison, Lei Xue*, Ang Chen, and Xiapu Luo (*Co-first author)
Proceeding of USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud), 2018

LinkScope: Towards Detecting Target Link Flooding Attacks [Paper]
Lei Xue, Xiaobo Ma, Xiapu Luo, Edmond W.W. Chan, Tony T.N. Miu, and Guofei Gu
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2018

Malton: Towards On-Device Non-Invasive Mobile Malware Analysis for ART [Paper] [Tool]
Lei Xue, Yajin Zhou, Ting Chen, Xiapu Luo, and Guofei Gu
Proceedings of the 26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2017

Adaptive Unpacking of Android Apps [Paper] [Tool]
Lei Xue, Xiapu Luo, Le Yu, Shuai Wang, and Dinghao Wu
in Proceedings of 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2017

Is What You Measure What You Expect? Factors Affecting Smartphone-Based Mobile Network Measurement [Paper] [Tool]
Lei Xue, Xiaobo Ma, Xiapu Luo, Le Yu, Shuai Wang, and Ting Chen
in Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2017

Towards Automatically Generating Privacy Policy for Android Apps [Paper]
Le Yu, Tao Zhang, Xiapu Luo, Lei Xue, and Henry Chang
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2017

Characterizing mobile *-box applications
Xiapu Luo, Haochen Zhou, Le Yu, Lei Xue, and Yi Xie
Computer Networks (Computer Networks), 2016

AutoPPG: Towards Automatic Generation of Privacy Policy for Android Applications [Paper]
Le Yu,Tao Zhang, Xiapu Luo, and Lei Xue
Proceedings of 6th Annual ACM CCS Workshop on Security and Privacy in Smartphones and Mobile Devices (SPSM), 2015

AndroidPerf: A Cross-layer Dynamic Profiling System for Android [Paper] [Tool]
Lei Xue, Chenxiong Qian, and Xiapu Luo
Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2015

Design and Implementation of A Malware Detection System Based on Network Behavior [Paper]
Lei Xue, and Guozi Sun
Security and Communication Networks (SCN), 2015

Towards Detecting Target Link Flooding Attack [Paper]
Lei Xue, Xiapu Luo, Edmond W. W. Chan, and Xian Zhan
Proceedings of 28th USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA), 2014

On Measuring One-Way Path Metrics from a Web Server [Paper]
Xiapu Luo, Lei Xue, Cong Shi, Yuru Shao, Chenxiong Qian, and Edmond W. W. Chan
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2014

kTRxer: A portable toolkit for reliable internet probing [Paper] [Tool]
Lei Xue, Xiapu Luo, and Yuru Shao
Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2014

OMware: an open measurement ware for stable residential broadband measurement (poster) [Paper]
Lei Xue, Ricky K. P. Mok, and Rocky K. C. Chang
Proceedings of ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), 2013

Patents

Network Attack Detection Method
Lei Xue, Zhiwei Liu, Xianneng Zou, Jingang Hou, Xiapu Luo, Edmond W. W Chan, Pei Tu, and Yuru Shao
Patent number: US9876807B2, USA

Information Processing Method and Device
Xiapu Luo, Jingang Hou, Zhiwei Liu, Xianneng Zou, Juhong Wang, Lei Xue, Yajuan Tang, and Weigang Wu
Patent number: US10178204B2, USA

A Method for Detecting DDoS Attack
Lei Xue, Zhiwei Liu, Xianneng Zou, Jingang Hou, Xiapu Luo, Edmond W. W Chan, Pei Tu, and Yuru Shao
Publication number: CN104506482A, CN

An E-mail Forensic Analysis Method Based on Community Classification
Guozi Sun, Lei Xue, Yitao Yang, Xiaolong Zhu, and Rui Wang
Patent Grant number: CN102842078B, CN

Teaching

Big Data Computing (COMP5434), Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Lecturer
Computer Communications Networks (COMP312), Spring 2016, TA
Distributed Computing (COMP5325), Spring 2015, TA
Internet Security: Principles and Practice (COMP5353), Spring 2014, Spring 2015, TA
Web Services and Project Development (COMP5332), Fall 2013, Fall 2014, TA

Services

TPC Member

2018: NSS
2019: SocialSec | SANER Blockchain Workshop | CoNEXT Student Workshop
2020: SocialSec | NSS
2021: SANER IBF Workshop | DSA | SocialSec | CSS | Chinasoft
2022: DSA | SocialSec | CSS