Tongqing Zhou
Tongqing Zhou received his bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degree from College of Computer,
National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), in 2012, 2015, and 2018, respectively. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award of Hunan Province.
He is currently an Assistant Researcher in the College of Computer at NUDT.
His research interests include mobile crowdsensing, data privacy, and AI security.
He was a research associate at Department of Computing in Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2017),
in the group of Prof. Bin Xiao and was a PostDoc in the group of Profs. Jinshu Su and Zhiping Cai at NUDT (2019-2022).
Publications
2024
- [AAAI] Xinyi Wu, Wentao Ma, Dan Guo, Tongqing Zhou*, Shan Zhao, Zhiping Cai*.
“Text-based Occluded Person Re-identification via Multi-Granularity Contrastive Consistency Learning.”
The Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2024): 1-9. (CCF-A) New!
[Link] - [CSCW] Fang Liu, Junyan Lv, Shenglan Cui, Zhilong Luan, Kui Wu, and Tongqing Zhou.
“Smart "Error"! Exploring Imperfect AI to Support Creative Ideation.”
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW) (2024): 1-28. (CCF-A) New!
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2023
- [TKDE] Tongqing Zhou, Zhiping Cai, Fang Liu, Jinshu Su.
“In Pursuit of Beauty: Aesthetic-Aware and Context-Adaptive Photo Selection in Crowdsensing.”
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) (2023): 1-17. (CCF-A) New!
[Link] - [TIFS] Zheng, Tengfei, Tongqing Zhou (Co-first Author), Kai Lu, Zhiping Cai*.
“Inspecting End-to-End Encrypted Communication Differentially for the Efficient Identification of Harmful Media.”
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) (2023): 5772-5787. (CCF-A) New!
[Link] - [WWW] Luo, Yuanjing, Tongqing Zhou (Co-first Author), F. Liu* and Zhiping Cai.
“IRWArt: Levering Watermarking Performance for Protecting High-quality Artwork Images.”
Proc. of ACM Conference on Web Conference (WWW) (2023): 2340-2348. (CCF-A) New!
[Link] - [SIGMOD] Chengyu Wang, Tongqing Zhou*, Kui Wu, Zhiping Cai*.
“Time2State: An Unsupervised Framework for Inferring the Latent States in Time Series Data.”
Proc. of ACM Conference on Management of Data (Sigmod) (2023): 1-8. (CCF-A) New!
[Link] - [ToN] Hou, Bingnan, Zhiping Cai*, Kui Wu, T. Yang and Tongqing Zhou*.
“6Scan: A High-Efficiency Dynamic Internet-Wide IPv6 Scanner With Regional Encoding.”
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN) (2023): 1870-1885. (CCF-A)
[Link] - [TCSVT] Luo, Yuanjing, Tongqing Zhou (Co-first Author), Shenglan Cui, Yunfan Ye, F. Liu* and Zhiping Cai.
“Fixing the Double Agent Vulnerability of Deep Watermarking: A Patch-Level Solution against Artwork Plagiarism.”
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) (2023): 1-13. (CCF-B) New!
[Link] - [ICASSP] Yu, Jiaping, Tongqing Zhou*, Zhiping Cai* and Wenyuan Kuang.
“Tracking Targets in Hyper-Scale Cameras Using Movement Predication.”
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (2023): 1-5. (CCF-B)
[Link] - [IPM] Yeting Guo, Fang Liu*, Tongqing Zhou*, Zhiping Cai and Nong Xiao.
“Seeing is believing: Towards Interactive Visual Exploration of Data Privacy in Federated Learning.”
Information Processing & Management (IPM) (2023): 103162. (CCF-B)
[Link] - [IPM] Panyu Liu, Tongqing Zhou*, Fang Liu*, Zhiping Cai and Yeting Guo.
“Leveraging heuristic client selection for enhanced secure federated submodel learning.”
Information Processing & Management (IPM) (2023): 103211. (CCF-B)
[Link] - [IoTJ] Wu, Hongjia, Hui Zeng, Tongqing Zhou*, Zhiping Cai*, Zehui Xiong, Dusit Tao Niyato and Zhu Han.
“From Eye to Brain: A Proactive and Distributed Crowdsensing Framework for Federated Learning.”
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ) (2023): 8202-8214. (Q1)
[Link] - [TPDS] Guo, Yeting, F. Liu*, Tongqing Zhou, Zhiping Cai and Nong Xiao*.
“Privacy vs. Efficiency: Achieving Both Through Adaptive Hierarchical Federated Learning.”
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) (2023): 1331-1342. (CCF-A)
[Link] - [ToN] Li, Xiong-lve, Tongqing Zhou, Zhiping Cai* and Jinshu Su.
“Realizing Fine-Grained Inference of AS Path With a Generative Measurable Process.”
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) (2023): 1-16. (CCF-A)
[Link] - [Infocom] Hou, Bingnan, Zhiping Cai*, Kui Wu, T. Yang and Tongqing Zhou.
“Search in the Expanse: Towards Active and Global IPv6 Hitlists”
IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom) (2023): 1-10. (CCF-A)
[Link] - [TCOMM] Wu, Hongjia, Jiangtian Nie, Zehui Xiong, Zhiping Cai*, Tongqing Zhou, Chau Yuen and Dusit Tao Niyato.
“A Game-Based Incentive-Driven Offloading Framework for Dispersed Computing.”
IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOMM) (2023): 4034-4049. (CCF-B)
[Link] - [IPM] Liu, Qiang, Tongqing Zhou, Zhiping Cai*, Yuan Yuan*, Ming Xu, Jiaohua Qin and Wentao Ma.
“Turning backdoors for efficient privacy protection against image retrieval violations.”
Information Processing & Management (IPM) (2023): 103471. (CCF-B)
[Link] - [ICASSP] Guo, Yeting, F. Liu*, Tongqing Zhou, Zhiping Cai and Nong Xiao*.
“Efficient Personalized Federated Learning on Selective Model Training.”
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (2023): 1-5. (CCF-B)
[Link] - [TCSVT] Ma, Wentao, Qingchao Chen, Tongqing Zhou, Shan Zhao and Zhiping Cai*.
“Using Multimodal Contrastive Knowledge Distillation for Video-Text Retrieval.”
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) (2023): 1-12. (CCF-B)
[Link] - [IPM] Wentao Ma, Tongqing Zhou, Jiaohua Qin, Xuyu Xiang, Yun Tan and Zhiping Cai*.
“Adaptive multi-feature fusion via cross-entropy normalization for effective image retrieval.”
Information Processing & Management (IPM) (2023): 103119. (CCF-B)
[Link] - [The Computer Journal] Changsheng Hou, Chunbo Jia, Bingnan Hou*, Tongqing Zhou, Yingwen Chen and Zhiping Cai*.
“A Sketch Framework for Fast, Accurate and Fine-Grained Analysis of Application Traffic.”
The Computer Journal (2023): 1-15. (CCF-B)
[Link] - [MS] Zheng, Baoying, Fang Liu, Mohan Zhang, Tongqing Zhou, Shenglan Cui, Yunfan Ye and Yeting Guo.
“Image captioning for cultural artworks: a case study on ceramics.”
Multimedia Systems (2023): 1-21. (CCF-C)
[Link] - [ESWA] Wang, Ke, Tongqing Zhou, Menghua Luo, Xionglue Li and Zhiping Cai.
“Generative adversarial minority enlargement—A local linear over-sampling synthetic method.”
Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA) (2023): 121696. (CCF-C, Q1)
[Link]
2022
- [CCS] Tengfei Zheng, Tongqing Zhou (Co-first Author), Qiang Liu, Kui Wu and Zhiping Cai.
“Characterizing and Detecting Non-Consensual Photo Sharing on Social Networks.”
Proc. of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (2022): 3209–3222. (CCF-A) New!
[Link] - [Globecom] Tongqing Zhou*, Zhiping Cai, Jinshu Su.
“Discovering Truth in Mobile Crowdsensing with Differential Location Privacy.”
Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) (2022): 903-908. (CCF-C)
[Link] - [MM] Qiang Liu, Tongqing Zhou*, Zhiping Cai, Yonghao Tang.
“Opportunistic Backdoor Attacks: Exploring Human-imperceptible Vulnerabilities on Speech Recognition Systems.”
Proc. of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM) (2022): 2390-2398. (CCF-A)
[Link] - [MM] Shenglan Cui, Fang Liu*, Tongqing Zhou, Mohang Zhang.
“Understanding and Identifying Artwork Plagiarism with the Wisdom of Designers: A Case Study on Poster Artworks.”
Proc. of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM) (2022): 1117-1127. (CCF-A)
[Link] - [SRDS] Hui Zeng, Tongqing Zhou*, Xinyi Wu, Zhiping Cai*.
“Never Too Late: Tracing and Mitigating Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning.”
Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) (2022): 69-81. (CCF-B, acceptance rate=23%) Best paper candidate!
[Link] - [IJIS] Jiaping Yu, Haiwen Chen, Kui Wu, Tongqing Zhou*, Zhiping Cai*, Fang Liu.
“EviChain: A scalable blockchain for accountable smart camera systems.”
International Journal of Intelligent System (2022): 1454-1478. (Q1)
[Link] - [Collaboratecom] Fengzhou Liang, Fang Liu*, Tongqing Zhou.
“A Visual Tool for Interactively Privacy Analysis and Preservation on Order-Dynamic Tabular Data.”
Proc. of International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (Collaboratecom) (2022): 1454-1478. (CCF-C)
[Link] - [MobiQuitous] Fengzhou Liang, Fang Liu*, Tongqing Zhou, Yunhai Wang and Li Chen.
“An Interactive Visualization System for Streaming Data Online Exploration.”
Proc. of International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous) (2022): 515-534. (CCF-C)
[Link] - [TNNLS] Wentao Ma, QingChao Chen, Fang Liu, Tongqing Zhou and Zhiping Cai*.
“Query-Adaptive Late Fusion for Hierarchical Fine-Grained Video-Text Retrieval.”
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems (TNNLS) (2022): 1-12. (Q1, CCF-B)
[Link] - [KBS] Wentao Ma, Tongqing Zhou, Jiaohua Qin, Qingyang Zhou, Zhiping Cai*.
“Joint-Attention Feature Fusion Network and Dual-Adaptive NMS for Object Detection.”
Knowledge-based Systems. 241 (2022): 108213. (Q1)
[Link] - [ESWA] Wentao Ma, Tongqing Zhou, Jiaohua Qin*, Xuyu Xiang, Yun Tan and Zhiping Cai*.
“A privacy-preserving content-based image retrieval method based on deep learning in cloud computing.”
Expert Systems with Applications (2022): 1-39. (Q1)
[Link] - [Infocom] Tao Yang, Zhiping Cai*, Tongqing Zhou, Bingnan Hou*.
“6Forest: An Ensemble Learning-based Approach to Target Generation for Internet-wide Ipv6 Scanning.”
Proc. of Infocom (2022): 1679-1688. (CCF-A)
[Link]
2021
- [Ubicomp] Tongqing Zhou, Zhiping Cai*, Fang Liu*.
“The Crowd Wisdom for Location Privacy of Crowdsensing Photos: Spear or Shield?”
Proc. of ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. (2021): 1-23. (CCF-A)
[Paper] [Link] - [TMC] Tongqing Zhou, Bin Xiao, Zhiping Cai* and M. Xu*.
“A Utility Model for Photo Selection in Mobile Crowdsensing.” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 20 (2021): 48-62. (CCF-A)
[Paper] - [Computers&Security] Tengfei Zheng, Yuchuan Luo, Tongqing Zhou*, Zhiping Cai*. “Towards Differential Access Control and Privacy-Preserving for Secure Media Data Sharing in the Cloud.” Computers & Security. (2021): 102553. (CCF-B)
- [ICPP] Hui Zeng, Tongqing Zhou*, Yeting Guo, Zhiping Cai* and Fang Liu.
“FedCav: Contribution-aware Model Aggregation on Distributed Heterogeneous Data in Federated Learning.”
Proc. of International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) (2021): 1-10. (CCF-B, acceptance rate=26.4%)
[Paper] [Presentation] - [TNSM] Bingnan Hou, Changsheng Hou, Tongqing Zhou*, Zhiping Cai* and Fang Liu.
“Detection and Characterization of Network Anomalies in Large-Scale RTT Time Series.”
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 18 (2021): 793-806. (CCF-C)
[Paper] - [CN] Changsheng Hou, Bingnan Hou, Tongqing Zhou*, Zhiping Cai*.
“DMatrix: Toward fast and accurate queries in graph stream.”
Computer Networks 198 (2021): 1-17. (CCF-B)
[Paper] - [IoTJ] Jiaping Yu, Haiwen Chen, Kui Wu, Tongqing Zhou*, Zhiping Cai* and Fang Liu.
“Centipede: Leveraging the Distributed Camera Crowd for Cooperative Video Data Storage.”
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2021): 1-13 (Q1)
[Paper] - [TNSM] Chengyu Wang, Kui Wu, Tongqing Zhou*, Guang Yu and Zhiping Cai*.
“TSAGen: Synthetic Time Series Generation for KPI Anomaly Detection.”
Transactions on Network and Service Management (2021): 130-145. (CCF-C)
[Paper] - [计算机研发] 郑腾飞, 周桐庆*, 蔡志平*, 吴虹佳. “编码计算研究综述.”
计算机研究与发展 (2021): 1-28. (CCF-A)
[Preprint] - [Ubicomp] Guo, Yeting, Fang Liu*, Zhiping Cai, Hui Zeng, Li Chen, Tongqing Zhou and Nong Xiao*.
“PREFER: Point-of-interest REcommendation with efficiency and privacy-preservation via Federated Edge leaRning.”
Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 5 (2021): 13:1-13:25. (CCF-A)
[Paper] - [TNNLS] Shan Zhao, Minghao Hu, Zhiping Cai*, Zhanjun Zhang, Tongqing Zhou, Fang Liu.
“Enhancing Chinese Character Representation With Lattice-Aligned Attention.”
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems (2021). (CCF-B, Q1)
[Link] - [CN] Tao Yang, Bingnan Hou, Zhiping Cai*, Kui Wu, Tongqing Zhou, Chengyu Wang. “6Graph: A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Address Pattern Mining for Internet-wide IPv6 Scanning.” Computer Networks (2021): 108666. (CCF-B)
- [IoTJ] Wu, Hongjia, Jiao Zhang, Zhiping Cai, Q. Ni, Tongqing Zhou, Jiaping Yu, Haiwen Chen and Fang Liu.
“Resolving Multi-task Competition for Constrained Resources in Dispersed Computing: A Bilateral Matching Game.”
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2021): 16972-16983. (Q1)
[Paper] - [IJIS] Haiwen Chen, Huan Zhou, Jiaping Yu, Kui Wu, Fang Liu*, Tongqing Zhou and Zhiping Cai*.
“Trusted audit with untrusted auditors: A decentralized data integrity Crowdauditing approach based on blockchain”.
International Journal of Intelligent System (2021): 6213-6239. (Q1)
[Paper] - [IJIS] Haiwen Chen, Jiaping Yu, Huan Zhou, Tongqing Zhou, Fang Liu* and Zhiping Cai*.
“SmartStore: A block chain and clustering based intelligent edge storage system with fairness and resilience”.
International Journal of Intelligent System (IJIS) (2021): 5184-5209. (Q1)
[Paper] - [ICA3PP] Chengyu Wang, Tao Yang, Kui Wu, Yu Li, Tongqing Zhou*, Zhiping Cai*. “TSAEns: Ensemble Learning for KPI Anomaly Detection.” Proc. of ICA3PP (2021): 162-177. (CCF-C)
- [MSN] Le Lai, Tongqing Zhou*, Zhiping Cai*, Jiaping Yu, Hao Bai, Jinhua Cui. “Leveraging blockchain for cross-institution data sharing and authentication in mobile healthcare.” Proc. of MSN (2021): 311-318. (CCF-C)
- [ICONIP] Rui Luo, Ye Wang, Shan Zhao, Tongqing Zhou, Zhiping Cai*. “Leveraging Multi-granularity Heterogeneous Graph for Chinese Electronic Medical Records Summarization.” Proc. of ICONIP (2021): 1-8. (CCF-C)
- [MSN] Yipeng Wang, Tongqing Zhou*, Zhiping Cai*. “2prong: Adaptive Video Streaming with DNN and MPC.” Proc. of MSN (2021): 726-731. (CCF-C)
- Tao Yang, Chengyu Wang, Tongqing Zhou, Zhiping Cai*, Kui Wu and Bingnan Hou. “Leveraging Active Decremental TTL Measuring for Flexible and Efficient NAT Identification.” Proc. of ICAIS (2021): 1-16. (Best Paper)
- Wang, Yipeng, Tongqing Zhou*, Changsheng Hou, Bingnan Hou and Zhiping Cai*. “A Survey on the Classic Active Measurement Methods for IPv6.” Theoretical Computer Science (2021).
- Lai, Le, Tongqing Zhou*, Zhiping Cai*, Zhiyao Liang and Hao Bai. “A Survey on Security Threats and Solutions of Bitcoin.” Journal of Cyber Security 3 (2021): 29–44.
2020
- [TMC] Yueyue Chen, Deke Guo, M. Xu, Guoming Tang, Tongqing Zhou and Bangbang Ren.
“PPtaxi: Non-Stop Package Delivery via Multi-Hop Ridesharing.”
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 19 (2020): 2684-2698. (CCF-A)
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2019
- [Proc. IEEE] Fang Liu, Guoming Tang, Youhuizi Li, Zhiping Cai, Xingzhou Zhang and Tongqing Zhou.
“A Survey on Edge Computing Systems and Tools.” Proceedings of the IEEE 107 (2019): 1537-1562. (CCF-A)
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2018
- [INFOCOM] Tongqing Zhou, Bin Xiao, Zhiping Cai*, Ming Xu* and Xuan Liu.
“From Uncertain Photos to Certain Coverage: a Novel Photo Selection Approach to Mobile Crowdsensing.”
Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) (2018): 1979-1987. (CCF-A, acceptance rate=19.2%)
[Paper] [Presentation] - [Ubicomp] Tongqing Zhou, Zhiping Cai*, Bin Xiao, Leye Wang, et al.
“Location Privacy-Preserving Data Recovery for Mobile Crowdsensing.”
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 2 (2018): 1-23. (CCF-A)
[Paper] [Presentation] - [JCST] Yueyue Chen, Pin Lv, Deke Guo, Tongqing Zhou and Ming Xu.
“A Survey on Task and Participant Matching in Mobile Crowd Sensing.”
Journal of Computer Science and Technology 33 (2018): 768-791. (CCF-B)
[Paper] - [计算机研发] 刘强, 李桐, 于洋, 蔡志平, 周桐庆.
面向可穿戴设备的数据安全隐私保护技术综述[J]. 计算机研究与发展 (2018), 55(1):14-29. (CCF-A)
[Paper] - 邓志刚, 周桐庆, 谢莹, 肖晓强, 徐明, 祁特立.
一种面向海上频谱监测的无人机调度方法[J]. 小型微型计算机系统 (2018), 30: 1-7. (CCF-B)
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2014-2017
- [CN] Tongqing Zhou*, Zhiping Cai, Kui Wu, Yueyue Chen and M. Xu.
“FIDC: A framework for improving data credibility in mobile crowdsensing.”
Computer Networks 120 (2017): 157-169. (CCF-B)
[Paper] - [ICDCS] Tongqing Zhou, Zhiping Cai*, Bin Xiao, Yueyue Chen and M. Xu*.
“Detecting Rogue AP with the Crowd Wisdom.”
Proc. of IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) (2017): 2327-2332. (CCF-B)
[Paper] [Link] - [PMC] Yueyue Chen, Pin Lv, Deke Guo, Tongqing Zhou and Ming Xu.
“Trajectory segment selection with limited budget in mobile crowd sensing.” Pervasive Mob. Comput. (PMC) 40 (2017): 123-138. (CCF-C)
[Paper] - [ISCC] Tongqing Zhou, Zhiping Cai, M. Xu and Yueyue Chen.
“Leveraging Crowd to improve data credibility for mobile crowdsensing.”
IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC) (2016): 561-568. (CCF-C)
[Paper] - [软件学报] 周桐庆*, 蔡志平, 夏竟, 徐明.
“基于软件定义网络的流量工程[J].” 软件学报, 2016, 27(02):394-417. (CCF-A)
[Paper] - Tongqing Zhou, Zhiping Cai, Yueyue Chen and M. Xu.
“Improving Data Credibility for Mobile Crowdsensing with Clustering and Logical Reasoning.”
International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS) (2016): 138-151.
[Paper] - [WASA] Tongqing Zhou, Haidong Zhang, Ming Xu, Haiwen Chen.
"Throughput Prediction-Based Rate Adaptation for Real-Time Video Streaming over UAVs Networks."
Proc. of International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA) 2014: 1-12 (CCF-C)
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Projects
- [国家自然科学基金青年基金] Research on the key technologies of data elaboration for photo crowdsensing. NSFC. Principal Investigator, 2022-2024.
- [湖南省科技创新人才项目] Hunan Provincial Postdoctoral Innovation Talent support Program (No. 2021RC2071). Principal Investigator, 2021-2023.
- [湖南省自然科学基金青年基金] Research on the privacy issues of photo sharing in crowdsensing. Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (No. 2022JJ40564). Principal Investigator, 2022-2024.
Awards
- [Outstanding Dissertation of Hunan Province] The Research on Data Security and Data Selective Transmission in Crowdsensing, 2021.
- The 2nd Prize of the Youth Innovation Award of NUDT, 2024.
- Youth Scientific Talent Program of Hunan Province, 2023.
- ACM SIGWEB China Rising Star Award, 2021.
- ACM Changsha China Rising Star Award, 2021.
- [Provincal Science and Technology Award] Key Technologies and Applications for Large-scale Network Security Situational Awareness. Rank #5, 2020.
- [Best Paper Candidate] The 41st IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, 2022.
- [Best Paper] The 7th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security, 2021.
Service
Reviewers for TIFS, TIP, ToN, IPM, INS, the computer journal, PMC, ComCom, ESWA, KBS, TNSE, JoSC, MM'24, MM'23, AAAI'22, IMWUT'18&'21, APPICC'19, CTCIS'17, ISCC'16, FiCloud'16, and etc.