About Me

Since 2024, I am an Assistant Professor at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam in the Foundational and Experimental Security group of the Department of Computer Science. Previously, I worked as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and as an Experienced Researcher at Ericsson Research Canada. I received my B.E. and M.E. in Information Security from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and hold a Ph.D. in Information and Systems Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, under the supervision of Prof. Lingyu Wang.

My research interests include security quantification, security metrics, software security, vulnerability assessment, cloud computing/5G security and privacy, and applied machine learning in security.

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News & Highlights

• Keynote:”Quantifiable Security: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of AI”, ACCSS Security & AI Workshop: Security and Privacy in the Age of Generative AI, Oct. 23rd, 2025
• New Publication: “An AI Security Testbed for the 5G Core”, CloudCom ‘25
• New Student: Apoorva Anand has started his Ph.D. journey
• New Publication: “Cross-Level Security Verification for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)”, TDSC ‘25
• Student Award: Emanuele received Student Merit Award at Society for Risk Analsysis (SRA) and will present “Large Language Models are Unreliable for Risk Summarization in Cyber Threat Intelligence” at the SRA Annual Meeting in Dec 7-10, 2025, Washington, DC.
• Talk: Emanuele presented “The Risk Of Overlooking the Evaluation Of System-level Robustness in Aviation” in SRA Europe Benelux Conference 2025, Sep. 8-9, 2025
• New Publication: “Understanding Home Router Configuration Habits & Attitudes”, CHI ‘25
• Invited Talk: “Ask Not Whether CVSSv3.1 and v4 Scores are Inconsistent, But What Can You Do About It”, Vunlcon ‘25 (hosted by FIRST and the CVE Program)

Selected publications (DBLP, Google Scholar, ORCID)

• Junjian Ye, Xavier de Carné de Carnavalet, Lianying Zhao, Lifa Wu, Mengyuan Zhang. “Understanding Home Router Configuration Habits & Attitudes”, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Yokohama, Japan, April 26-May 1, 2025. [author copy]
• Sudershan Lakshmanan, Mengyuan Zhang, Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang, “Caught-in-Translation (CiT): Detecting Cross-level Inconsistency Attacks in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), vol. 21, no. 4, July-Aug. 2024, pp. 2964-2981. [author copy]
• Siqi Zhang, Minjie Cai, Mengyuan Zhang, Lianying Zhao, Xavier de Carné de Carnavalet, “The Flaw Within: Identifying CVSS Scores Discrepancies in the NVD,” IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom ‘23), Napoli, Italy, Dec. 4-6, 2023. [author copy]
• Siqi Zhang, Mengyuan Zhang, Lianying Zhao, “VIET: A Tool for Extracting Essential Information from Vulnerability Descriptions for CVSS Evaluation,” IFIP Annual Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec ‘23), Sophia Antipolis, France, July 19-21, 2023. [author copy]