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Aaron Wu

I am a Ph.D. student in the School of Cyberspace Science and Technology at Beijing Jiaotong University, advised by Prof. Zhen Han, Prof. Wenjia Niu and Dr. Endong Tong. Additionally, I am a joint Ph.D. student (funded by China Scholarship Council) at the TULIP Laboratory, Deakin University, where I am fortunate to work with Prof. Gang Li. My research focuses on the security of safety-critical Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), including the security of Autonomous Driving (AD) and robotic systems. My goal is to reveal the vulnerabilities of these systems, raise awareness, and thereby advocate for increased research dedicated to AI security. I’m open to any kind of collaboration. If you are interested to chat with me, please feel free to contact me through email.

  wuyalun1 [at] bjtu.edu.cn             Google Scholar             Github

News

  • [2024/10] Accepted! One paper has been accepted by CCF CIVS 2024 and won the Best Student Paper Award. Congratulations!
  • [2024/09] Accepted! One paper has been accepted by International Journal of Intelligent Systems (IJIS).
  • [2024/09] Accepted! One paper has been accepted by ADMA 2024.
  • [2024/02] Accepted! One paper has been accepted by IEEE Network.
  • [2022/08] Our team won the Global Runner-up in the DEF CON'30 Autonomous Driving CTF Challenge. Checkout the news from some of the winning teams: [Our Team@BJTU], [Whitezard@FUDAN]. Congratulations!
  • [2022/06] I obtained a Master’s degree in Software Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU).
  • [2022/03] Our team won the First Price in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Vulnerability Discovery Competition. Congratulations! [News]
  • [2022/02] I received a letter of appreciation from the National Major Network Security Test and Assessment Activity. [News]
  • [2021/08] Our team won the Global Runner-up in the DEFCON'29 Autonomous Driving CTF Challenge. Checkout the news from some of the winning teams: [Our Team@BJTU], [Cacti@UB], [Redbud@THU]. Congratulations!
  • [2021/05] Accepted! One paper has been accepted by ICICS 2021.

Selected Publications

All publications can be found on my Google Scholar page.

RetroreflectionBA: Leveraging Retroreflection as a Backdoor Attack Trigger for Fooling Pedestrian Detection Models.
Qiong Li, Yalun Wu, Qihuan Li, Xiaoshu Cui, Xiaolin Chang, Peng Sun, Jiqiang Liu, Wenjia Niu.
China Computer Federation Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (CCF CIVS 2024)
Best Student Paper Award [Paper] [PDF] [BibTex]

Collaborative Attack Sequence Generation Model Based on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Traffic Signal System.
Yalun Wu*, Yingxiao Xiang*, Thar Baker, Endong Tong, Ye Zhu, Xiaoshu Cui, Zhenguo Zhang, Zhen Han, Jiqiang Liu, Wenjia Niu.
International Journal of Intelligent Systems (IJIS 2024)
(*Equal Contribution) [Paper] [PDF] [BibTex]

Nightfall Deception: A Novel Backdoor Attack on Traffic Sign Recognition Models via Low-Light Data Manipulation.
Yalun Wu, Qiong Li, YingXiao Xiang, Jinkai Zheng, Xingyu Wu, Zhen Han, Jiqiang Liu, Wenjia Niu.
International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2024)
[Paper] [PDF] [BibTex]

Lurking in the Shadows: Imperceptible Shadow Black-Box Attacks against Lane Detection Models.
Xiaoshu Cui, Yalun Wu, Yanfeng Gu, Qiong Li, Endong Tong, Jiqiang Liu, Wenjia Niu.
International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2024)
[Paper] [PDF] [BibTex]

Improving the Robustness of Pedestrian Detection in Autonomous Driving with Generative Data Augmentation.
Yalun Wu, Yingxiao Xiang, Endong Tong, Yuqi Ye, Zhibo Cui, Yunzhe Tian, Lejun Zhang, Jiqiang Liu, Zhen Han, Wenjia Niu.
IEEE Network 2024
[Paper] [PDF] [BibTex]

Blockchain-based decentralized federated learning: A secure and privacy-preserving system.
Shuang Zhao, Yalun Wu, Rui Sun, Xiaoai Qian, Dong Zi, Zhiqiang Xie, Endong Tong, Wenjia Niu, Jiqiang Liu, Zhen Han.
IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2021)
[Paper] [PDF] [BibTex]

Improving Convolutional Neural Network-Based Webshell Detection Through Reinforcement Learning.
Yalun Wu, Minglu Song, Yike Li, Yunzhe Tian, Endong Tong, Wenjia Niu, Bowei Jia, Haixiang Huang, Qiong Li, Jiqiang Liu.
International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2021)
Acceptance Rate: 49/202≈24.25% [Paper] [PDF] [BibTex]

Selected Awards

  • 2024, Advanced Class of Graduate Students Award (研究生先进班集体, 团体奖), Beijing Jiaotong University.
  • 2024, ZhiJin Scholarship (智瑾奖学金), Beijing Jiaotong University Education Foundation.
  • 2024, First-Class Academic Scholarship (一等学业奖学金), Beijing Jiaotong University.
  • 2024, Excellent Graduate Student Cadre (优秀研究生干部), Beijing Jiaotong University.
  • 2024, Excellent Scholarship in Social Work (社会工作优秀奖学金), Beijing Jiaotong University.
  • 2024, Excellent Part-time Counselor (优秀兼职辅导员), Beijing Jiaotong University.
  • 2024, Best Student Paper Award of the Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (智能汽车研讨会最佳学生论文奖), China Computer Federation (CCF).
  • 2023, Advanced Class Award (北京市先进班集体, 团体奖), Beijing Municipal Commission of Education.
  • 2023, Advanced Class of Graduate Students Award (研究生先进班集体, 团体奖), Beijing Jiaotong University.
  • 2023, XiaoMi Scholarship (小米奖学金), Beijing Jiaotong University Education Foundation & Xiaomi Foundation.
  • 2023, Second-Class Academic Scholarship (二等学业奖学金), Beijing Jiaotong University.
  • 2023, Excellent Graduate Student Cadre (优秀研究生干部), Beijing Jiaotong University.
  • 2023, Excellent Scholarship in Social Work (社会工作优秀奖学金), Beijing Jiaotong University.
  • 2022, Admission Academic Scholarship (入学学业奖学金), Beijing Jiaotong University.
  • 2022, Excellent Part-time Counselor (优秀兼职辅导员), Beijing Jiaotong University.
  • 2022, Global Runner-up in the DEF CON'30 Autonomous Driving CTF Challenge, Baidu Security & UCI. [新闻:祝贺计算机学院信息安全系THETA团队在DEFCON30 AutoDriving赛事获得优异成绩]
  • 2022, First Price of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Vulnerability Mining Competition, Peng Cheng Laboratory. [新闻:计算机学院信安团队参与冬奥卫士演练活动荣获一等奖]
  • 2022, A letter of appreciation from the National Major Network Security Test and Assessment Activity, Peng Cheng Laboratory. [新闻:计算机学院信安团队参与国家重大网络安全试验测试活动获感谢信]
  • 2021, Global Runner-up in the DEF CON'29 Autonomous Driving CTF Challenge, Baidu Security & UCI. [新闻: DEF CON 29 Contest自动驾驶CTF赛亚军]