Chuanpu Fu
Ph.D. Candidate [CV]
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
Office: Ziqiang Science and Technology Building No.1, 11F-53, Beijing, P.R. China, P.C.: 100084
Email: fcp20[at]mails[dot]tsinghua[dot]edu[dot]cn
Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
Office: Lawson Computer Science Building, 2F-2161-17, West Lafayette, IN, USA, P.C.: 47906
Email: fu454[at]purdue[dot]edu
This year, I am actively seeking opportunities in the job market.
Currently, I am a visiting scholar at Purdue University!
About
Chuanpu Fu is currently a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Internet Architecture & Security Lab, with Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Qi Li and Prof. Ke Xu.
Currently, he has joined Department of Computer Science of Purdue University, as a visiting scholar advised by Prof. Elisa Bertino.
His research focuses on network security, particularly, cyber attack investigation (CCS'20, ToN'22, and Security'22), detection (CCS'21, ToN'23&24, CCS'23&24, and NDSS'23), and defense (Security'23).
Awards
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of P.R. China, 2024.
Distinguished Reviewer Awards, USENIX Security Artifact Evaluation, 2024.
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of P.R. China, 2023.
Longfor Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2023.
Distinguished Paper Award, USENIX Security, 2023.
Frontiers of Science Award, International Congress of Basic Science, 2023.
Science and Technology Award, Chinese Institute of Electronics, 2023.
Longfor Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2022.
Excellent Comprehensive Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2022.
Excellent Comprehensive Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2021.
Distinguished Paper Award Nomination, ACM CCS, 2020.
News
[10/01/2024] (Award) I am awarded the National Scholarship, again!
[09/19/2024] (New Position) I have joined Purdue University as a visiting scholar! Please feel free to find me at Lawson CS Building!
[08/27/2024] (Academic Service) I received the Distinguished Reviewer Award for my service at the Security 2024 AE Committee.
[08/19/2024] (Academic Service) I am selected to be part of the program committee of EuroS&P 2025.
[06/01/2024] (New Location) I've moved to Ziqiang Building. I am looking forward to face-to-face discussions with you.
[05/24/2024] (Paper) Our privacy-preserving traffic detection paper is accepted by ACM CCS 2024.
[04/10/2024] (Academic Service) I am selected to be part of the ACM CCS 2024 Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC).
[02/18/2024] (Paper) Our traffic detection paper is accepted by IEEE/ACM Transections on Networking (ToN).
[10/21/2023] (Academic Service) I am selected to be part of the ACM CCS 2023 Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC).
[10/17/2023] (Award) I am awarded the National Scholarship.
[10/05/2023] (Academic Service) I am selected to be part of the USENIX Security 2024 Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC).
[08/10/2023] (Award) Our intelligent network data-plane paper won Distinguished Paper Award at the USENIX Security 2023.
[07/17/2023] (Award) Our CCS 2020 paper won Frontiers of Science Awards at the inaugural International Congress of Basic Science.
[05/11/2023] (Paper) Our false-postive alarm detection paper is accepted by ACM CCS 2023. See you in Copenhagen!
[04/19/2023] (Scholar) I passed Ph.D. Qualifying Examination and became a Ph.D. Candidate (graded as A).
[04/02/2023] (Award) Our network security architecture research won the CIE Science and Technology Award. Congratulations!
[09/24/2022] (Academic Service) I am selected to be part of the USENIX Security 2023 Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC).
[09/23/2022] (Paper) Our Intelligent Data Plane paper accepted by USENIX Security 2023. Congratulations, Guangmeng!
[07/30/2022] (Paper) Our graph based attack detection paper accepted by ISOC NDSS 2023. Thanks for being our shepherd, Taegyu!
[07/28/2022] (Paper) Our data-driven traffic detection paper accepted by IEEE/ACM ToN 2022.
[06/14/2022] (Paper) Our ICMP redirect attack paper accepted by USENIX Security 2022.
Publications
[CCS'24] Chuanpu Fu, Qi Li, Meng Shen, Ke Xu. Detecting Tunneled Flooding Traffic via Deep Semantic Analysis of Packet Length Patterns. The 31th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), to appear. Salt Lake City, USA, October 14-18, 2024.
[ToN'24] Chuanpu Fu, Qi Li, Ke Xu. Flow Interaction Graph Analysis: Unknown Encrypted Malicious Traffic Detection. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 32 (4), 2972-2987, 2024. [PDF] [CODE]
[CCS'23] Chuanpu Fu, Qi Li, Ke Xu, Jianping Wu. Point Cloud Analysis for ML-Based Malicious Traffic Detection: Reducing Majorities of False Positive Alarms. The 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), 1005-1019. Copenhagen, Denmark, November 26-30, 2023. [PDF] [CODE] [PROOFS]
[SECURITY'23] Guangmeng Zhou, Zhuotao Liu, Chuanpu Fu, Qi Li, Ke Xu. An Efficient Design of Intelligent Network Data Plane. The 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 6203-6220. Anaheim, USA, August 9-11, 2023. [PDF] [VIDEO] [SLIDES] [CODE] (Distinguished Paper Award)
[NDSS'23] Chuanpu Fu, Qi Li, Ke Xu. Detecting Unknown Encrypted Malicious Traffic in Real Time via Flow Interaction Graph Analysis. The 30th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (ISOC NDSS). San Diego, USA, 27 February - 3 March, 2023. [PDF] [CODE]
[ToN'22] Chuanpu Fu, Qi Li, Meng Shen, Ke Xu. Frequency Domain Feature Based Robust Malicious Traffic Detection. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 31 (1), 452-467, 2023. [PDF] [CODE]
[SECURITY'22] Xuewei Feng, Qi Li, Kun Sun, Zhiyuan Qian, Gang Zhao, Xiaohui Kuang, Chuanpu Fu, Ke Xu. Off-Path Network Traffic Manipulation via Revitalized ICMP Redirect Attacks. The 31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security) 2619-2636. Boston, USA, August 10-12, 2022. [PDF] [VIDEO] [SLIDES]
[ToN'22] Xuewei Feng, Qi Li, Kun Sun, Chuanpu Fu, Ke Xu. Off-Path TCP Hijacking Attacks via the Side Channel of Downgraded IPID. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 30 (1), 409-422, 2022. [PDF] [CODE]
[CCS'21] Chuanpu Fu, Qi Li, Meng Shen, Ke Xu. Realtime Robust Malicious Traffic Detection via Frequency Domain Analysis. The 28th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), 3431–3446. Seoul, South Korea, November 14-19, 2021. [PDF] [VIDEO] [CODE]
[CCS'20] Xuewei Feng, Chuanpu Fu, Qi Li, Kun Sun, and Ke Xu. Off-Path TCP Exploits of the Mixed IPID Assignment. The 27th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), 1323–1335. Orlando, USA, November 9-13, 2020. [PDF] [VIDEO] [CODE] (Distinguished Paper Award Nomination)
Teaching Experiences
[12/4/2023] Invited Talk: "AI Powered Malicious Traffic Detection: from Labs to WANs", Internet Architecture and its Security Fundamentals (for Graduates, Tsinghua Univ., 74120013).
[06/6/2023] Invited Talk: AI Security & AI for Security, Introduction to Cyberspace Security (for Undergraduates, Tsinghua Univ., 30240573).
[03/2022 - 07/2022] Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Cyberspace Security (for Undergraduates, Tsinghua Univ., 30240573).
[03/2021 - 07/2021] Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Cyberspace Security (for Undergraduates, Tsinghua Univ., 30240573).
Academic Services
Journal Reviewer:
[TNSM] IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2022, 2023, 2024.
[ToN] IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2023.
[CS] Elsevier Computer & Security, 2024.
[TKDE] IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2024.
Conferences Reviewer:
[KDD] ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2025.
Artifact Evaluation Committee:
[SECURITY] USENIX Security Symposium, 2023, 2024.
[CCS] ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2023, 2024.
Program Committee:
[EuroS&P] IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2025.
External Reviewer:
[CCS] ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2022, 2023.
[Security] USENIX Security Symposium, 2021.
[NDSS] Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
[S&P] IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2022, 2023, 2024.
[WWW] ACM International World Wide Web Conference, 2022, 2023.
[ASIACCS] ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2022, 2024.
[IWQoS] IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service, 2024.
[CN] Elsevier Computer Networks, 2023, 2024.
[TIFS] IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024.