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Dr Zhigang LU 卢 志刚 |
Short Bio
Dr Zhigang Lu is a Lecturer with the Discipline of Information Technology, James Cook University since Jan 2023.
Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub, Macquarie University from Jan 2020, working closely with Prof Dali Kaafar, Dr Hassan Asghar and Dr Dinusha Vatsalan. He was funded by the Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub, in partnership with the Defence Science & Technology Group and Data61-CSIRO, through the Next Generation Technologies Fund.
He obtained his PhD (supervised by Prof Hong Shen and Prof Michael Sheng, funded by the Adelaide Graduate Research Scholarship) and MPhil (supervised by Prof Hong Shen and A/Prof Nickolas Falkner) degrees from the University of Adelaide and BEng degree from Xidian University all in computer science. He was one of the two recipients of the University Master by Research Medal in 2015. He won a First Award in the National Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modelling (Shaanxi Division) in 2009 and a Third Award in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC Intramural Competition) in 2008.
He also worked as a Data Scientist in the industry for three months in early 2022.
Research Interests
Differential privacy, Secure multi-party computation, Information theory, Adversarial machine learning, Transfer learning, Robust AI.
News
Apr, 2024. Welcome PhD students Yanan Cai and Zhongrui Zhao to join the Discpline of IT.
Feb, 2024. Our paper, ‘dp-promise: Differentially Private Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Image Synthesis’, was accepted by the 33rd Usenix Security Symposum (Usenix Security-24).
Feb, 2024. Congratulations to Zhongrui on been awarded a JCU Postgraduate Research Scholarship to support his PhD journey.
Feb, 2024. Welcome PhD student Yang Chen to join the Discipline of IT. Yang will work on anomaly detection in social networks.
Jan, 2024. The subject, Cloud Computing, I coordinated and lectured at JCU, received 90% satisfaction from JCU internal student SELTs.
Jan, 2024. I was interviewed by Risa Utama from 7NEWS Townsville regarding online safety and scams.
Jan, 2024. Welcome Yuefang Lian (PhD student at Beijing University of Technology) to visit my team at JCU from Jan-2024 to Jan-2025. Yuefang will work on differentially private combinatorial optimisation.
Jan, 2024. Welcome A/Prof Cong Gao (Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications) to visit my team at JCU from Jan-2024 to Jan-2025. Cong will work on anomaly detection in social networks.
Dec, 2023. Our paper, ‘Efficient Constrained k-Center Clustering with Background Knowledge’, was accepted by the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24).
Nov, 2023. Congratulations to Yanan on been awarded a sponsorship of tuition fees from JCU for her PhD program.
Nov, 2023. I gave guest lectures for Introduction to Data Science and Machine Learning and Database Modelling at Xi'an University of Technology for three weeks.
Nov, 2023. I represented the Discipline of IT to give a talk about Vulnerability and Defence in Machine Learning at the JCU-XUT joint program annual conference.
Sep, 2023. Our paper, ‘VeriDIP: Verify Ownership of Deep Neural Networks through Privacy Leakage Fingerprints’, was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC).
Jul, 2023. I secured $4,000 from the JCU Early Career Researcher Grant Scheme.
Jun, 2023. The subject, Network Security, I coordinated and lectured at JCU, received 93% satisfaction from JCU student SELTs.