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Contact Info

Email: zluo [at] rider.edu

Phone Number: 609-895-5413

Department: Department of Computer Science and Physics

Office Location: STC (Mike and Patti Hennessy Science and Technology Center) 204C

Academic focus:

Cybersecurity and Computer Science
 

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Research Interests

My research interests primarily focus on: (1) the security of machine learning systems and their applications in Internet of Things (IoT) systems, communication systems, and more; (2) network security; and (3) quantum computing, including quantum machine learning and related security concerns.

You are welcome to contact me via email or speak with me after class if you're interested in working with me on a guided research project through CYB/CSC 490 Independent Research and Study.

Education

Ph.D. Systems and Security
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States.

M.S. Computer Application Technology
Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

B.S. Computer Science and Technology
Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang, China. 

Courses Taught

  1. CSC 340 Cybersecurity Essentials 
  2. CYB 300 Developing & Deploying CyberPrg 
  3. CYB 260 Network Defenses & Countermeasures 
  4. CYB 240 Ethical Hacking & PenTesting 
  5. CYB 200 Operating Systems & Cybersecurity 
  6. CSC 140 Discrete Structures 
  7. CYB 110 Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism
  8. CSC 240 Operating Systems

Selected Publications

Conferences

  1. Luo, Zhengping Jay, Tyler Stewart, Mourya Narasareddygari, Rui Duan, Shangqing Zhao. Quantum Machine Learning: Performance and Security Implications in Real-World Applications. IEEE Secure Development Conference & IEEE Digital Privacy Workshop, 2024.
  2. Chen, Jinmiao, Zhengping Jay Luo, Yuchen Liu, and Shangqing Zhao. "MMP: A Dynamic Routing Protocol Design to Proactively Defend against Wireless Network Inference Attacks." In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense, pp. 1-11. 2023.
  3. Luo, Zhengping Jay, Will A. Pitera, Shangqing Zhao, Zhuo Lu, and Yalin E. Sagduyu. "How Can the Adversary Effectively Identify Cellular IoT Devices Using LSTM Networks?" In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Workshop on Wireless Security and Machine Learning, pp. 9-14. 2023.
  4. Luo, Zhengping, Shangqing Zhao, Rui Duan, Zhuo Lu, Yalin E. Sagduyu, and Jie Xu. "Low-cost influence-limiting defense against adversarial machine learning attacks in cooperative spectrum sensing." In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Wireless Security and Machine Learning, pp. 55-60. 2021.
  5. Luo, Zhengping, Shangqing Zhao, Zhuo Lu, Yalin E. Sagduyu, and Jie Xu. "Adversarial machine learning based partial-model attack in IoT." In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on wireless security and machine learning, pp. 13-18. 2020.
  6. Luo, Zhengping, Tao Hou, Tung Thanh Nguyen, Hui Zeng, and Zhuo Lu. "Log analytics in HPC: A data-driven reinforcement learning framework." In IEEE INFOCOM 2020-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), pp. 550-555. IEEE, 2020.
  7. Zhao, Shangqing, Zhuo Lu, Zhengping Luo, and Yao Liu. "Orthogonality-sabotaging attacks against OFDMA-based wireless networks." In IEEE INFOCOM 2019-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, pp. 1603-1611. IEEE, 2019.
  8. Zhao, Shangqing, Zhengping Luo, Zhuo Lu, Xiang Lu, and Yao Liu. "Stateful Inter-Packet Signal Processing for Wireless Networking." In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, pp. 15-27. 2017.
  9. Luo, Zhengping, Tianqi Yang, and Yanjun Liu. "Gait optical flow image decomposition for human recognition." In 2016 IEEE Information Technology, Networking, Electronic and Automation Control Conference, pp. 581-586. IEEE, 2016.

Journals

  1. Luo, Zhengping Jay, Ruowen Liu, Aarav Mehta and Md Liakat Ali. Demystifying the RSA Algorithm: An Intuitive Introduction for Novices in Cybersecurity. The CCSC Eastern's 40th Annual Regional Conference, in The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2024).
  2. Luo, Zhengping, Tao Hou, Xiangrong Zhou, Hui Zeng, and Zhuo Lu. "Binary Code Similarity Detection through LSTM and Siamese Neural Network." EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety 8, no. 29 (2021).
  3. Luo, Zhengping, Shangqing Zhao, Zhuo Lu, Jie Xu, and Yalin E. Sagduyu. "When attackers meet AI: Learning-empowered attacks in cooperative spectrum sensing." IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 21, no. 5 (2020): 1892-1908.
  4. Zhao, Shangqing, Zhe Qu, Zhengping Luo, Zhuo Lu, and Yao Liu. "Comb Decoding towards Collision-Free WiFi." In 17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 20), pp. 933-951. 2020.
  5. Luo, Zhengping, Zhe Qu, Tung Thanh Nguyen, Hui Zeng, and Zhuo Lu. "Security of HPC systems: From a log-analyzing perspective." EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety 6, no. 21 (2019): e5-e5.

Book Chapters

  1. Duan, Rui, Wenwei Zhao, Zhengping Jay Luo, Ning Wang, Yao Liu, and Zhuo Lu. "Understanding the Ineffectiveness of the Transfer Attack in Intrusion Detection System" In Network Security Empowered by Artificial Intelligence, pp. 99-119. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.

Professional Services & Affiliations

  • NSF Panelist, 2024, 2025
  • Member, Asian American Alliance, Rider University 
  • IEEE Member (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers)
  • ACM Member (Association for Computer Machinery)
  • Judge, Mercer County Science Fair, New Jersey
  • Advisor, ACM Club, Rider University
  • Advisor, Asian American Students Association, Rider University