Dr Wanli Xue

I am a postdoc researcher at UNSW and Cybersecurity CRC working with Prof. Sanjay Jha in the secure and private Smart City. I obtained the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the UNSW, Australia in January 2019.

My research interests are in cyber-physical security systems related to deep learning and IoT. Deep learning services tremendously increase the range of tasks that machine can handle, however, the model containing private data is a potential threat to the specific attacks. Experience from the previous project about differential privacy based deep learning model broadens my horizons about threat models and deep learning frameworks. Besides, to enable the seamless connection meanwhile provide privacy protection, I propose to build a distributed private IoT system with efficient data collaboration/processing methods.  IoT techniques combined with cybersecurity methodology are considered can provide a good trade-off between utility and privacy in real life/research scenarios.