Ruoxi Sun
Higher Degree by Research Candidate
School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Ruoxi Sun is a PhD candidate of School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide. His research focuses on the privacy and security of the Android platform, including the first comprehensive study on Android contact tracing applications and a black-box syntax inference approach to fuzzing IoT firmware and Android companion applications, which has resulted in several security vulnerabilities disclosures to vendors with resulting positive feedback as well as the removal of offending apps from the Google Play Store.
His papers have been published in top international conferences, such as
- CCS (ACM Flagship, CORE A*),
- ICSE (IEEE/ACM Flagship, CORE A*),
- SenSys (CORE A*),
- ASE (CORE A*, CS Ranking Top),
- and EASE (CORE A).
His work has been featured in the mainstream press, including
- The Australian Financial Review,
- The Courier,
- The Canberra Times,
- InnovationAus,
- 7 News,
- Securityweek,
- Queen Mary University of London,
- and EurekAlert! by AAAS.
He currently serves on the PC committee of
- PETS 2023 (top conf in privacy)
- Australasian Information Security Conference 2022
- 14th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT),
- and 5th IEEE Percom Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Trust in the Internet of Things (SPT-IoT),
and external PC committees of
- ICSE 2021 (top conf in software engineering),
- CCS 2021 (top conf in security),
- and PETS 2021, 2022.
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Awards and Achievements
Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount 2022 Award Best Student Paper Award, Australasian Information Security Conference 2022 Australasian Information Security Conference 2022 Australia - -
Language Competencies
Language Competency Chinese (Mandarin) Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2017 - 2018 The University of Adelaide Australia Master's -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2023 Wang, Z., Byrnes, O., Wang, H., Sun, R., Ma, C., Chen, H., . . . Xue, M. (2023). Data Hiding With Deep Learning: A Survey Unifying Digital Watermarking and Steganography. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 1-15.
2012 Zhou, S., Li, Y., Zhu, H., Sun, R., Zhang, Y., Huang, Y., . . . Fang, B. (2012). Preparation and infrared optical properties of W-V co-sputtered thermochromic thin films. Xiyou Jinshu Cailiao Yu Gongcheng/Rare Metal Materials and Engineering, 41(1), 143-147.
Scopus5 WoS52012 Huang, Y. Z., Li, Y., Wang, H. F., Yu, X. J., Zhang, H., Zhang, W., . . . Zhang, Y. M. (2012). Coherence collapse of the dual fiber Bragg grating external cavity semiconductor laser. Wuli Xuebao/Acta Physica Sinica, 61(1), 10 pages.
Scopus12012 Zhou, S., Li, Y., Zhu, H., Sun, R., Zhang, Y., Huang, Y., . . . Fang, B. (2012). Microstructures and thermochromic characteristics of low-cost vanadium-tungsten co-sputtered thin films. Surface and Coatings Technology, 206(11-12), 2922-2926.
Scopus33 WoS302012 Zhang, Y., Li, Y., Sun, R., Zhou, S., Zhu, H., & Fang, B. (2012). Design and fabrication of ultraviolet diffractive microlens array. Guangxue Jishu/Optical Technique, 38(3), 263-267.
Scopus22012 Sun, R. X., Li, Y., Zhou, S., Zhu, H. Q., Zhang, Y. M., Huang, Y. Z., . . . Fang, B. Y. (2012). Design and thermal characteristics analysis of power flexible LED packaging. Guangdianzi Jiguang/Journal of Optoelectronics Laser, 23(4), 637-643.
Scopus12011 Zhang, W., Li, Y., Zhang, H., Huang, Y. Z., Zhu, H. Q., & Sun, R. X. (2011). Ultraviolet diffractive microlens array design and fabrication. Shanghai Ligong Daxue Xuebao/Journal of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 33(2), 174-178.
Scopus12011 Huang, Y., Li, Y., Zhu, H., Tong, G., Zhang, H., Zhang, W., . . . Zheng, Q. (2011). Theoretical investigation into spectral characteristics of a semiconductor laser with dual-FBG external cavity. Optics Communications, 284(12), 2960-2965.
Scopus4 WoS22011 Zhu, H. Q., Li, Y., Zhou, S., Huang, Y. Z., Tong, G. X., Sun, R. X., . . . Fang, B. Y. (2011). Study on thermochromic properties of VO<inf>2</inf>/ZnO nanocrystalline composite films. Wuli Xuebao/Acta Physica Sinica, 60(9), 6 pages.
Scopus8 WoS62011 Huang, Y., Li, Y., Wang, H., Yu, X., Zhang, H., Zhang, W., . . . Zhang, Y. (2011). Wavelength stabilization of a 980-nm semiconductor laser module stabilized with high-power uncooled dual FBG. Chinese Optics Letters, 9(3), 5 pages.
Scopus5 WoS42010 Zhu, H., Li, Y., Wang, H., Yu, X., Zhou, S., Huang, Y., . . . Zhang, Y. (2010). Infrared optical properties of thermochromic energy-saving thin films with nanostructure. Guangxue Xuebao/Acta Optica Sinica, 30(10), 2794-2799.
Scopus10- Hu, P., Wang, Z., Sun, R., Wang, H., & Xue, M. (n.d.). M^4I: Multi-modal Models Membership Inference. -
Conference Papers
Year Citation 2023 Sun, R., Xue, M., Tyson, G., Wang, S., Camtepe, S., & Nepal, S. (2023). Not Seen, Not Heard in the Digital World! Measuring Privacy Practices in Children's Apps. In ACM Web Conference 2023 - Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2023 (pp. 2166-2177). ACM.
2023 Ma, W., Wang, D., Sun, R., Xue, M., Wen, S., & Xiang, Y. (2023). The "Beatrix" Resurrections: Robust Backdoor Detection via Gram Matrices. In Proceedings 2023 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. Internet Society.
2023 Wang, S., Almashor, M., Abuadbba, A., Sun, R., Xue, M., Wang, C., . . . Camtepe, S. (2023). DOITRUST: Dissecting On-chain Compromised Internet Domains via Graph Learning. In Proceedings 2023 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. Internet Society.
2022 Li, C., Chen, X., Sun, R., Xue, M., Wen, S., Ahmed, M. E., . . . Xiang, Y. (2022). Cross-language Android permission specification. In ESEC/FSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (pp. 772-783). ACM.
Scopus22022 Zhang, K., Xiao, X., Zhu, X., Sun, R., Xue, M., & Wen, S. (2022). Path Transitions Tell More: Optimizing Fuzzing Schedules via Runtime Program States. In Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering Vol. 2022-May (pp. 1658-1668). Pittsburgh, PA: IEEE COMPUTER SOC.
Scopus2 WoS12022 Zhou, Y., Shi, Z., & Sun, R. (2022). Visualization and Attack Prevention for a Sensor-Based Agricultural Monitoring System. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ACSW) (pp. 84-90). Virtual Online: Association for Computing Machinery.
2022 Spencer, H., Wang, W., Sun, R., & Xue, M. (2022). Dissecting Malware in the Wild. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ACSW) (pp. 56-64). Virtual Online: Association for Computing Machinery.
Scopus1 WoS12022 Crawford, M., Wang, W., Sun, R., & Xue, M. (2022). Statically Detecting Adversarial Malware through Randomised Chaining. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ACSW, 2022) (pp. 91-95). Virtual Online: Association for Computing Machinery.
Scopus12021 Feng, X., Sun, R., Zhu, X., Xue, M., Wen, S., Liu, D., . . . Xiang, Y. (2021). Snipuzz: Black-box Fuzzing of IoT Firmware via Message Snippet Inference. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2021) (pp. 337-350). Virtual Online: Association for Computing Machinery.
Scopus21 WoS132021 Sun, R., Wang, W., Xue, M., Tyson, G., Camtepe, S., & Ranasinghe, D. C. (2021). An empirical assessment of global COVID-19 contact tracing applications. In Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion 2021) (pp. 173-174). virtual online: IEEE.
Scopus17 WoS12020 Sun, R., & Xue, M. (2020). Quality assessment of online automated privacy policy generators: An empirical study. In Proceedings of the 24th Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2020) (pp. 270-275). New York: Association for Computing Machinery.
Scopus92020 Wei, W., Sun, R., Xue, M., & Ranasinghe, D. (2020). An automated assessment of android clipboards. In Proceedings of the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2020) (pp. 1249-1251). online: IEEE/ACM.
Scopus2 WoS12020 Sun, R., Wang, W., Xue, M., Tyson, G., & Ranasinghe, D. (2020). VenueTrace: A Privacy-by-Design COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing Solution. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys'20 (pp. 790-791). online: ACM.
Scopus82010 Zhang, H., Li, Y., Zhang, W., Huang, Y., Wang, H., Yu, X., . . . Zhang, Y. (2010). Optimization for LED arrays to achieve uniform near-field illumination. In L. Yang, Y. Namba, D. D. Walker, & S. Li (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 7655 (pp. 6 pages). Dalian, PEOPLES R CHINA: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING.
Academic Tutor
1400+ hours teaching in 9 computer science courses.
- Cybersecurity Fundamentals - 2022 S1, 2021 S1, 2020 S1
- Secure Software Engineering - 2021 S2, 2020 S2, 2019 S2
- Engineering Software as Services II - 2020 S2, 2019 S2
- Cyber Security - 2020 S2
- Software Engineering Workshop I - 2020 S1
- Computer System - 2020 S1, 2019 S1&2
- Foundation of Computer Science - 2019 S1&2, 2018 S2
- Software Engineering Project - 2019 S2
- Artificial Intelligence - 2019 S1
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Presentation
Date Topic Presented at Institution Country 2021 - ongoing Security and privacy: How social networking changes with the pandemic? Cyberspace Security Westlake Online Forum Zhejiang University - 2021 - ongoing Security and privacy: How social networking changes with the pandemic - University of Queensland - 2021 - ongoing An empirical assessment of global Covid-19 contact tracing applications - Monash University - -
Review, Assessment, Editorial and Advice
Date Title Type Institution Country 2021 - ongoing Program committee Conference Review Australasian Information Security Conference Australia 2021 - ongoing External reviewer Conference Review Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs 2022) - 2021 - ongoing Program committee Conference Review 5th IEEE Percom Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Trust in the Internet of Things (SPT-IoT) - 2020 - ongoing Program committee Conference Review 14th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies -
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