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 metrics, software security, attack surface, cloud computing/5G security and privacy, and applied machine learning in security.

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News & Highlights

• New Publication: “Towards Exploring Cross-Regional and Cross-Platform Differences in Login Throttling”, NordSec ‘24
• PhD Recruitment: Currently looking for a motivated PhD student in Secure and High-Performance Dynamic Program Analysis for WebAssembly joint supervision with Dr. Daniele Bonetta.

Selected publications (DBLP, Google Scholar, ORCID)

• 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]