Dr. Jiahuai Mao (previously published as Lulu Wang) is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), working with Prof. Man Ho Allen Au. He received his Ph.D. in Software Engineering from East China Normal University (ECNU) under the supervision of Prof. Lei Zhang. From 2022 to 2023, he was a visiting Ph.D. student with the SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Padua (UNIPD), supervised by Prof. Mauro Conti, and from 2023 to 2024 he was a visiting scholar with the ISTD Pillar at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), under the supervision of Prof. Zehui Xiong. His research interests lie at the intersection of security, privacy, and machine learning.

💬 jiahuai.mao@polyu.edu.hk

📖 Educations & Work Experience

• 2025.08 - Now, Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
• 2025.02 - 2025.08, Research Assistant at Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
• 2024.01 - 2025.01, Visiting scholar at ISTD Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.
• 2022.10 - 2023.10, Visiting Ph.D. Student at SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group, University of Padua, Italy.
• 2019.09 - 2025.06, Ph.D candidate at Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.

📫 Services

• Sub-reviewer: ESORICS 2025, SciSec 2025, ACISP 2025.
• Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS), Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IOTJ).