Anyuan Sang

Anyuan Sang

Xidian University

I am currently a Ph.D. student at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, supervised by Prof. Li Yang and associate professor Lu Zhou.

My research interests focus on System Security and Software Security, with specific topics including:

  • Provenance-based Intrusion Detection Systems
  • Malware Detection & Adversarial Attacks
  • Large Language Models for Security
  • Graph Representation Learning
📢 Open Position: We are actively recruiting visiting students (undergraduate and master's) in the field of AI4Security! If you are interested, feel free to contact me via email: anyuan@stu.xidian.edu.cn.

🔥 News

  • [2026.4] 🎉🎉 I have been selected for the Tencent Rhino-Bird Elite Training Program (腾讯犀牛鸟精英人才计划)!
  • [2026.1] 🎉🎉 Our two papers has been accepted by The Web Conference (WWW 2026, CCF-A)!
  • [2025.12] 🎉🎉 Our paper has been accepted by FSE 2026 (CCF-A) Software Engineering Big 4 Conference!
  • [2025.12] 🎉🎉 I have received the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) doctoral student project funding (国家自然科学基金青年基金博士生项目)! (300,000 CNY)
  • [2025.08] 🎉🎉 One paper has been accepted by IEEE TDSC (CCF-A)!
  • [2025.05] 🎉🎉 Two papers have been accepted by IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2025!
  • [2025.03] 🎉🎉 One paper has been accepted by IEEE TII (SCI-1 TOP)!
  • [2025.01] 🎉🎉 One paper has been accepted by The Web Conference (WWW 2025, CCF-A)!
  • [2024.11] 🎉🎉 One paper has been accepted by Computers & Security (CCF-B)!
  • [2024.06] 🎉🎉 One paper has been accepted by RAID 2024!
  • [2024.06] 🎉🎉 One paper has been accepted by ICDF2C 2024!

📝 Publications

2026

  • [FSE ‘26] Flash: Query-Efficient Black-Box Static Malware Evasion through Transferable GAN-Guided Modification Sequences [Link]
    Anyuan Sang, Li Yang, Lu Zhou, Junbo Jia, Huipeng Yang.
    ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2026). (CCF-A, Direct Accept Rate: 9.5%)
  • [WWW ‘26] ProvGuard: Logic-Aware Multi-View Contrastive Learning for Robust and Efficient Host Threat Detection [Link]
    Anyuan Sang, Li Yang, Lu Zhou, Cheng Zhou, Junbo Jia, Huipeng Yang.
    ACM The Web Conference (WWW 2026). (Oral, CCF-A, Accept Rate: 20.1%)
  • [WWW ‘26] WebGeoInfer: Structure-Free Multi-Stage Framework for Geolocation Inference from Exposed Device Web Interfaces [Link]
    Huipeng Yang, Li Yang, Lu Zhou, Lichuan Ma, Xinyue Wang, Junbo Jia, Anyuan Sang.
    ACM The Web Conference (WWW 2026). (Oral, CCF-A, Accept Rate: 20.1%)

2025

  • [TDSC 2025] Resist Dependency Explosion in Attack Investigation with Splittable Tag Propagation and Aggregation [Link]
    Anyuan Sang, Yuchen Wang, Junbo Jia, Yang Li, Pengbin Feng, Lu Zhou, and Jianfeng Ma.
    IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. (CCF-A)

  • [WWW ‘25] STGAN: Detecting Host Threats via Fusion of Spatial-Temporal Features in Host Provenance Graphs [Link]
    Anyuan Sang, Xuezheng Fan, Li Yang, Yuchen Wang, Lu Zhou, Junbo Jia, and Huipeng Yang.
    ACM The Web Conference 2025. (Oral, CCF-A, Accept Rate: 19.8%)

  • [IEEE TII] Generating Adversarial Malware Examples Against Multiple Machine Learning Detectors [Link]
    Anyuan Sang, Zhipeng Wang, Li Yang, Lu Zhou, Junbo Jia, and Huipeng Yang.
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. (SCI-1 TOP)

  • [IWQoS ‘25] Embedding More Knowledge: Strategic Graph Masking based Advanced Persistent Threats Detection [Link]
    Junbo Jia, Yang Li, Lu Zhou, Anyuan Sang, Huipeng Yang, and Ao Wang.
    IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service. (CCF-B)

  • [IWQoS ‘25] Remote Management Device Identification Based on Multimodal Feature Fusion [Link]
    Huipeng Yang, Yang Li, Lu Zhou, Yuchen Wang, Junbo Jia, Anyuan Sang, and Wenjie Sha.
    IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service. (Poster, CCF-B)

2024

  • [RAID ‘24] Obfuscating Provenance-Based Forensic Investigations with Mapping System Meta-Behavior [Link]
    Anyuan Sang, Yuchen Wang, Li Yang, Junbo Jia, and Lu Zhou.
    ACM International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses. (CCF-B, Accept Rate: 25%)

  • [Computers & Security] Hyper attack graph: Constructing a hypergraph for cyber threat intelligence analysis [Link]
    Junbo Jia, Yuchen Wang, Yang Li, and Anyuan Sang.
    Computers & Security. (CCF-B, JCR-1)

  • [ICDF2C ‘24] Assessing Threats: Security Boundary and Side-channel Attack Detection in the Metaverse [Link]
    Ruiyuan Yang, Guohao Li, Li Yang, Hao Zhang, Jiangyu Wang, and Anyuan Sang.
    EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime. (CCF-C)

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2025 - National Scholarship (国家奖学金)
  • 2025 - Fundamental Research Project for Young Professional from NSFC (Grant: 300,000 CNY)
  • 2025 - Second Prize Academic Scholarship
  • 2024 - Outstanding Graduate Student
  • 2024 - Second Prize Academic Scholarship

🧱 Professional Service

Conference Reviewer / PC Member:

  • ACM The Web Conference (WWW) 2025, 2026
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2026
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2024, 2025, 2026

Journal Reviewer:

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
  • Computers & Security
  • Artificial Intelligence Review

💬 Talks

  • 2025.05 - Presenting at WWW 2025, Sydney, Australia.
  • 2024.10 - Presenting at RAID 2024, Padua, Italy.

📖 Work Experience

  • 2026.05 - Present - As an research intern in Keen Security Lab of Tencent, focus on EndPoint Security and AI Agent Security.

📖 Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, China.
    Sept. 2023 - Present
  • M.S. in Computer Science, Xidian University, Xi’an, China.
    Sept. 2021 - Sept. 2023 (Supervised by Prof. Yang Li)
  • B.E. in IoT Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, China.
    Sept. 2017 - June 2021