Gaolei Li
Tenured Associate Professor
Works on AI security, including neural network backdoor defense, model copyright protection and LLM trustworthiness evaluation.
Gaolei Li's lab at SJTU works on trustworthy & safe ML and interpretability, evaluation & safety of LMs. 116 papers since 2023, 12 at top venues, mostly ICC and AAAI. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 30/ year
- at T1 venues
- 10%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 25 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 23 papers2025 · T1 3
- 45 papers2024 · T1 6
- 23 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICC, AAAI, GLOBECOM, MICCAI, ICONIP
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Trustworthy & safe ML11 papers
- copyright2 papers
- Interpretability, evaluation & safety of LMs1 paper
- defense1 paper
- copyright protection1 paper
Paper list
From DBLP.
202625 papers
- IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput.Adversarial Robustness of Link Sign Prediction in Signed Graphs (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput.AgentChain: Blockchain-Empowered Multi-Agent Coordination for Trustworthy LLM Question-Answering Systems (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.Agile, Reliable and Communication-Efficient Metaverse 3D Reconstruction Via Gaussian Semantic Splatting (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.Beamforming Feedback-Driven Wireless Positioning: A Transferable Vision Transformer Approach (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.BPF-DAG: Byte-Packet-Flow Features Fusion via Dynamic Attributed Graph for Reliable Encrypted Traffic Classification (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)Can Protective Watermarking Safeguard the Copyright of 3D Gaussian Splatting? (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)DualMirage: Hunting Stealthy Multimodal LLM Agents via CAPTCHAs with Contour and Adversarial Illusions (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput.HGAFA: Heterogeneous Graph Attention-Based Featureless Aggregation for IoC Joint Identification (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Netw. Sci. Eng.LLM-HGAN: LLM-Enhanced Heterogeneous Graph Attention Networks for Advanced Persistent Threat Detection (opens in a new tab)
- Inf. Process. Manag.LSFL: A Lightweight and Secure Federated Learning scheme for Internet of Vehicles (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Bifurc. ChaosMechanism and Verification of Strange Nonchaotic Attractors in a Quasi-Periodically Forced Nonsmooth System (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Medical ImagingNeural Optimization for Image Registration via Joint Modeling of Global Affine and Local Deformation Transformations (opens in a new tab)
202523 papers
- ICPADS3D-MGW: A Memory-Efficient Grouped Watermark for Multi-Object 3D Gaussian Splatting (opens in a new tab)
- J. Inf. Secur. Appl.Anti-traceable backdoor: Blaming malicious poisoning on innocents in non-IID federated learning (opens in a new tab)
- Inf. FusionAuth-Graph: GenAI-empowered attribute-masked backdoor for on-demand authorizable graph learning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron.Backdoor-Empowered Regulable Privilege Authorization for Edge-Level Graph Learning in 6G Vehicular Networks (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Artif. Intell.Consistency-Heterogenity Balanced Fake News Detection via Cross-Modal Matching (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Internet Things J.Enhanced Resource Orchestration in Near-Field and Far-Field NOMA Communications for Emergency IoT Applications (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.FeCoGraph: Label-Aware Federated Graph Contrastive Learning for Few-Shot Network Intrusion Detection (opens in a new tab)
- MICCAI (T1)Gaussian Primitive Optimized Deformable Retinal Image Registration (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Commun. Mag.Generative Artificial Intelligence Models for Emerging Communication Systems: Fundamentals and Challenges (opens in a new tab)
- IJCAI (T1)GraphProt: Certified Black-Box Shielding Against Backdoored Graph Models (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag.HFL-RD: Heterogeneous Federated Learning-Empowered Ransomware Detection via APIs and Traffic Features (opens in a new tab)
- TrustComHyBiGraph: Toward Multi-Order Malicious Encrypted Traffic Classification via Hyper-Bipartite Graph Fusion (opens in a new tab)
202445 papers
- ISPAActIPP: Active Intellectual Property Protection of Edge-Level Graph Learning for Distributed Vehicular Networks (opens in a new tab)
- NDSS (T1)ActiveDaemon: Unconscious DNN Dormancy and Waking Up via User-specific Invisible Token (opens in a new tab)
- LREC/COLINGBackdoor NLP Models via AI-Generated Text (opens in a new tab)
- Comput. Secur.BenchMFC: A benchmark dataset for trustworthy malware family classification under concept drift (opens in a new tab)
- ACM TUR-CBlockAgents: Towards Byzantine-Robust LLM-Based Multi-Agent Coordination via Blockchain (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc.Communications Security in Industry X: A Survey (opens in a new tab)
- WCNCCovert and Reliable Semantic Communication Against Cross-Layer Privacy Inference over Wireless Edge Networks (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag.Crowdsourcing Malware Family Annotation: Joint Class-Determined Tag Extraction and Weakly-Tagged Sample Inference (opens in a new tab)
- GLOBECOMDiffusion-based Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic UAV-assisted Vehicle Twins Migration in Vehicular Metaverses (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.Exploring Semantic Redundancy using Backdoor Triggers: A Complementary Insight into the Challenges Facing DNN-based Software Vulnerability Detection (opens in a new tab)
- TKDE (T1)FocusedCleaner: Sanitizing Poisoned Graphs for Robust GNN-Based Node Classification (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Softw.Generative AI for Software Security Analysis: Fundamentals, Applications, and Challenges (opens in a new tab)
202323 papers
- ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainComAdvBinSD: Poisoning the Binary Code Similarity Detector via Isolated Instruction Sequences (opens in a new tab)
- ICA3PPBlack-Box Graph Backdoor Defense (opens in a new tab)
- WCNCCATFL: Certificateless Authentication-based Trustworthy Federated Learning for 6G Semantic Communications (opens in a new tab)
- ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainComContent Style-triggered Backdoor Attack in Non-IID Federated Learning via Generative AI (opens in a new tab)
- MSNDPG-DT: Differentially Private Generative Digital Twin for Imbalanced Learning in Industrial IoT (opens in a new tab)
- ICA3PPDynamic Path Planning Based on Traffic Flow Prediction and Traffic Light Status (opens in a new tab)
- ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainComEnsuring Minority Group Rights in Social IoT with Fairness-aware Federated Graph Node Classification (opens in a new tab)
- ICCCEntity Interactivity-Aware Graph Encoder-Decoder Networks for Explainable Relation Prediction against Advanced Persistent Threats (opens in a new tab)
- ICIRAFairShare: An Incentive-Based Fairness-Aware Data Sharing Framework for Federated Learning (opens in a new tab)
- SmartNetsFew-shot Multi-domain Knowledge Rearming for Context-aware Defence against Advanced Persistent Threats (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.Friend-as-Learner: Socially-Driven Trustworthy and Efficient Wireless Federated Edge Learning (opens in a new tab)
- DSN-WIVSign: Interpretable Vulnerability Signature via Code Embedding and Static Analysis (opens in a new tab)
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