Location privacy research accepted at ACM CCS 2026
🎉 Our paper "Revisit Location Privacy Protection: A Service Failure Perspective", a collaboration with Guangzhou University, was accepted to ACM CCS 2026. Congrats to all co-authors!
Latest updates, announcements, and highlights from CyberPUNK Lab.
Jiawei Wang awarded a womENcourage 2026 Participation Scholarship
🎉 Our PhD student Jiawei Wang received a womENcourage 2026 Participation Scholarship and will present her accepted poster at ACM-W Europe womENcourage 2026 in France. Congratulations, Jiawei!
SlaClip accepted to ICML 2026 as a Spotlight paper
🎉 Our PhD student Shuyan Zou's paper "SlaClip: Gradient Norm Slacks can be Indicator for Adaptive Clipping in DP-SGD" was accepted to ICML 2026 as a Spotlight (top 2.2%) paper. Congratulations to Shuyan and all co-authors!
Adaptive mini-batching research accepted by IEEE Transactions on Reliability
🎉 Our paper "An Adaptive Mini-Batching Strategy for Reliable Streaming Data Delivery in Real-Time" was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Reliability. Congrats to all co-authors!
Privacy–utility research accepted at EuroMLSys 2026
🎉 Our PhD student Jiawei Wang's paper "Peeling the Layers of Privacy-Utility Onion on Tabular Data" was accepted to the EuroMLSys Workshop, co-located with EuroSys 2026. Congratulations to Jiawei and all co-authors!
Hengyang Yao joined CyberPUNK Lab as a PhD student
Hengyang Yao, from University of Birmingham, joined CyberPUNK lab as a PhD student. Welcome!
FedEvolve accepted at the RSD Workshop @ AAAI 2026
🎉 Our paper "FedEvolve: Evolutionary Tabular Data Synthesis in Vertical Federated Learning Systems" was accepted to the RSD Workshop @ AAAI 2026. Congrats to Adethya Srinivasan — nice work for a second-year BSc student!
Welcome to Jiawei Wang
Jiawei Wang, from Sichuan University, joined CyberPUNK lab as a PhD student and is studying machine unlearning. Welcome!
Invited talk at the RISCS Cybersecurity event
Our lab was invited to Durham University for the RISCS Cybersecurity event, where Han Wu gave a talk on Auditing Privacy-preserving AI.
Aniket Singh Scholarship awarded
Our lab supported BSc Year 2 student Adethya Srinivasan in securing the Aniket Singh Scholarship (funded by University of Southampton) to work on a 12-week research project in Vertical Federated Learning.
Vertical federated learning research accepted at DSN 2025
🔥 Our paper "GTV: Generating Tabular Data via Vertical Federated Learning" was accepted by DSN 2025. Congrats!
One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I
Our paper "Impacts of Physical-Layer Information on Epidemic Spreading in Cyber-Physical Networked Systems" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers.
Invited talk at Heriot-Watt University
Han Wu was invited to Heriot-Watt University to give a talk on "Together We Learn, Individually We Protect: A Vision For Differential Privacy".
