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Dan Zhao

 Assistant researcher (助理研究员), Peng Cheng Laboratory (鹏城实验室), Shenzhen, China
Email: zhaod01 AT pcl.ac.cn
Peng Cheng Laboratory, Xingke 1st Street, Xili Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province
广东省深圳市南山区西丽镇兴科一街 鹏城实验室 （518055）

Research

Dan Zhao is currently an assistant researcher with Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher with School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University. Dr Dan Zhao obtained her bachelor’s degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2011, and Ph.D. degree from Queen Mary University of London in 2015. Her research interests include network routing, in-network intelligence and network security.

Selected publications

You can find my most recent publications on my Google scholar page.

    Selected journal papers
  1. Ruoyu Li, Qing Li*, Qingsong Zou, Dan Zhao, Xiangyi Zeng, Yucheng Huang, Yong Jiang, Feng Lyu, Gaston Ormazabal, and Aman Singh. “IoTGemini: Modeling IoT Network Behaviors for Synthetic Traffic Generation.” Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2024. (CCF A, download the paper)
  2. Ruoyu Li, Qing Li*, Yucheng Huang, Qingsong Zou, Dan Zhao, Zhengxin Zhang, Yong Jiang , Fa Zhu, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. “SeIoT: Detecting Anomalous Semantics in Smart Homes via Knowledge Graph.” Accepted by IEEE TIFS 2024. (CCF A, download the paper)
  3. Ruoyu Li, Qing Li*, Tao Lin, Qingsong Zou, Dan Zhao, Yucheng Huang, Gareth Tyson, Guorui Xie, and Yong Jiang. “DeviceRadar: Online IoT Device Fingerprinting in ISPs using Programmable Switches.” Accepted by IEEE/ACM ToN 2024. (CCF A, download the paper)
  4. Guanglin Duan, Qing Li, Zhengxin Zhang, Dan Zhao, Guorui Xie, Yuan Yang, Zhenhui Yuan, Yong Jiang, and Mingwei Xu. “DNSGuard: In-network Defense against DNS Attacks” Accepted by IEEE TDSC 2024. (CCF A, download the paper)
  5. Junkun Peng, Qing Li, Xun Tang, Dan Zhao*, Chuang Hu, and Yong Jiang*. “A Cooperative Caching System in Heterogeneous Edge Networks.” Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2023. (CCF A, download the paper)
  6. Jingyu Xiao, Xudong Zuo, Qing Li*, Dan Zhao, Hanyu Zhao, Yong Jiang, Jiyong Sun, Bin Chen, Yong Liang, and Jie Li. "FlexNF: Flexible Network Function Orchestration for Scalable On-Path Service Chain Serving." Accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2023. (CCF A, download the paper)
  7. Guorui Xie, Qing Li*, Guanglin Duan, Jiaye Lin, Yutao Dong, Yong Jiang, Dan Zhao, and Yuan Yang. "Empowering In-Network Classification in Programmable Switches by Binary Decision Tree and Knowledge Distillation." IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING 2023. (CCF A, download the paper)

    8. Selected conference papers
  8. Zhengxin Zhang, Dan Zhao, Xupeng Miao, Gabriele Oliaro, Zhihao Zhang, Qing Li, Yong Jiang, Zhihao Jia. “Quantized Side Tuning: Fast and Memory-Efficient Tuning of Quantized Large Language Models.” Accepted by ACL 2024, Outstanding Paper Award. (CCF A, paper to be added )
  9. Zhenning Shi, Dan Zhao*, Yijia Zhu, Guorui Xie, Qing Li, Yong Jiang. “Helios: Learning and Adaptation of Matching Rules for Continual In-Network Malicious Traffic Detection.” Accepted by WWW 2025. (CCF A, paper to be added )
  10. Chupeng Cui, Qing Li, Guorui Xie, Ruoyu Li, Dan Zhao, Zhenhui Yuan, Yong Jiang. “Proteus: A Difficulty-aware Deep Learning Framework for Real-time Malicious Traffic Detection.” Accepted by ICNP 2024. (CCF A, paper to be added )
  11. Jingyu Xiao, Zhiyao Xu, Qingsong Zou, Qing Li, Dan Zhao, Dong Fang, Ruoyu Li, Wenxin Tang, Kang Li, Xudong Zuo, Penghui Hu, Yong Jiang, Zixuan Weng, Michael Lyu. “Make Your Home Safe: Time-aware Unsupervised User Behavior Anomaly Detection in Smart Homes via Loss-guided Mask.” Accepted by ACM SIGKDD 2024. (CCF A, paper to be added )
  12. Ruoyu Li, Qing Li*, Yu Zhang, Dan Zhao, Xi Xiao, and Yong Jiang*. “Genos: General In-Network Unsupervised Intrusion Detection by Rule Extraction.” Accepted by IEEE INFOCOM, 2024. (CCF A, paper to be added )
  13. Ruoyu Li, Qing Li*, Yu Zhang, Dan Zhao, Yong Jiang. "Interpreting Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Security via Rule Extraction." in Proceedings of NeurIPS 2023. (CCF A, download the paper)
  14. Zhengxin Zhang, Yucheng Huang, Guanglin Duan, Qing Li*, Dan Zhao, Yong Jiang, Lianbo Ma, Xi Xiao, and Hengyang Xu. "Metis: Understanding and Enhancing Regular Expressions in Network." in Proceedings of NeurIPS 2023. (CCF A, download the paper)
  15. Yutao Dong, Qing Li*, Kaidong Wu, Ruoyu Li, Dan Zhao, Gareth Tyson, Junkun Peng, Yong Jiang, Shutao Xia, and Mingwei Xu. "HorusEye: A Realtime IoT Malicious Traffc Detection Framework using Programmable Switches." in Proceedings of USENIX Security 2023. (CCF A, download the paper)
  16. Shisong Tang, Qing Li*, Dingmin Wang, Ci Gao, Wentao Xiao, Dan Zhao, Yong Jiang, Qian Ma, and Aoyang Zhang. "Counterfactual Video Recommendation for Duration Debiasing." in Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD 2023. (CCF A, download the paper)
  17. Zhengxin Zhang, Qing Li*, Guanglin Duan, Dan Zhao, Jingyu Xiao, Guorui Xie, and Yong Jiang. "Pontus: Finding Waves in Data Streams." in Proc. ACM SIGMOD 2023. (CCF A, download the paper)
  18. Lie Lu, Qing Li*, Dan Zhao, Yuan Yang, Zeyu Luan, Jianer Zhou, YongJiang, and Mingwei Zu. "Hawkeye: A Dynamic and Stateless Multicast Mechanism with Deep Reinforcement Learning." in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2023. (CCF A, download the paper)
  19. Junkun Peng, Qing Li*, Yuanzheng Tan, Dan Zhao, Zhenhui Yuan, Jinhua Chen, Hanling Wang, and Yong Jiang. "SkyNet: Multi-Drone Cooperation for Real-Time Identification and Localization." In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2023. (CCF A, download the paper)
  20. Jingyu Xiao, Qingsong Zou, Qing Li*, Dan Zhao, Kang Li, Zixuan Weng, Ruoyu Li, and Yong Jiang. "I Know Your Intent: Graph-enhanced Intent-aware User Device Interaction Prediction via Contrastive Learning." in Proceedings of ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. (Ubicomp/IMWUT) 7, 3, Article 136 (September 2023), 28 pages (CCF A, download the paper)
  21. Guorui Xie, Qing Li*, Haolin Yan, Dan Zhao, Gianni Antichi, and Yong Jiang. "Efficient Attack Detection with Multi-Latency Neural Models on Heterogeneous Network Devices." in Proceedings of ICNP 2023. (Tsinghua A, download the paper)
  22. Guorui Xie, Qing Li*, Jiaye Lin, Gianni Antichi, Dan Zhao, Zhenhui Yuan, Ruoyu Li, and Yong Jiang. "Dryad: Deploying Adaptive Trees on Programmable Switches for Networking Classification." in Proceedings of ICNP 2023. (Tsinghua A, download the paper)