Peng Zhou

Associate Professor at Shanghai University

Official E-mail: pzhou(at)shu(dot)edu(dot)cn        Personal E-mail: zpbrent(at)gmail(dot)com

Short Bio

I got my Ph.D. from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2014 and was a Research Fellow at Singapore Nanyang Technological University in 2015.

My research interests include: Network Security, Machine Learning Security and Trust Management.

Journal Articles

• Magic Train: Design of Measurement Methods Against Bandwidth Inflation Attacks
  Peng Zhou, Rocky K. C. Chang, Xiaojing Gu, Minrui Fei and Jianying Zhou
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2018.
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• HTTPAS: Active Authentication Against HTTPS Man-in-the-middle Attacks
  Peng Zhou and Xiaojing Gu
  IET Communications, 2016.
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• Harvesting File Download Exploits in the Web: A Hacker’s View
  Peng Zhou, Xiaojing Gu and Rocky K. C. Chang
  Computer Journal, Oxford University Press, 2016.
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• Toward Energy-Efficient Trust System Through Watchdog Optimization for WSNs
  Peng Zhou, Siwei Jiang, Athirai A. Irissappane, Jie Zhang, Jianying Zhou and Joseph C. M. Teo
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2015.
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• A Priori Trust Inference with Context-aware Stereotypical Deep Learning
  Peng Zhou, Xiaojing Gu, Jie Zhang and Minrui Fei
  Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier, 2015.
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• Inference Attacks Against Trust-based Onion Routing: Trust Degree to the Rescue
  Peng Zhou, Xiapu Luo and Rocky K. C. Chang
  Computers & Security, Elsevier, 2013.
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• SGor: Trust Graph Based Onion Routing
  Peng Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Ang Chen and Rocky K.C. Chang
  Computer Networks, Elsevier, 2013.
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• Robust Network Covert Communications Based on TCP and Enumerative Combinatorics
  Xiapu Luo, Edmond W. W. Chan, Peng Zhou and Rocky K. C. Chang
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2012.
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Conference Papers

• More Anonymity Through Trust Degree in Trust-based Onion Routing
  Peng Zhou, Xiapu Luo and Rocky K. C. Chang
  ICST/ACM SecureComm, 2012
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• HTTPOS: Sealing Information Leaks with Browser-side Obfuscation of Encrypted Flows
  Xiapu Luo, Peng Zhou, Edmond W. W. Chan, Wenke Lee, Rocky K. C. Chang, and Roberto Perdisci
  ISOC/USENIX NDSS, 2011
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• Exposing Invisible Timing-based Traffic Watermarks with BACKLIT
  Xiapu Luo, Peng Zhou, Junjie Zhang, Roberto Perdisci, Wenke Lee and Rocky K.C. Chang
  ACSAC, 2011
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• A Combinatorial Approach to Network Covert Communications with Applications in Web Leaks
  Xiapu Luo, Peng Zhou, Edmond W. W. Chan, Rocky K. C. Chang and Wenke Lee,
  IEEE/IFIP DSN, 2011
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Services

• Journal Reviewer:
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE, (since 2015)
  IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE, (since 2013)
  IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE, (since 2016)
  IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE, (since 2014)
  IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE, (since 2015)
  Computers & Security, Elsevier, (since 2014)
  International Journal of Information Security, Springer, (since 2015)
  Security and Communication Networks, Wiley, (since 2016)
  IET Networks, IET, (since 2016)
• TPC member:
  ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop (2015, 2016, 2017)

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