2026.01 - Present: School of Cyber Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Professor

2022.11 - 2026.01: School of Cyber Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Associated Professor

2020.04 - 2022.10: Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Research Assistant Professor

2017.12 - 2020.03: Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Postdoc Fellow

Lei Xue, Ph.D., a Professor at Sun Yat-sen University and a recipient of National Young Talent Program. He received his Ph.D. from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research focuses on the security and engineering foundations of embodied intelligence, intelligent agents, and intelligent systems. Dr. Xue has published over 50 papers in leading international venues, including IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, ACM CCS, and NDSS, and holds five invention patents granted in China and the United States. His work has received several academic honors, including the WCSP Best Paper Award and the ACM Distinguished Paper Award.

He currently leads multiple national research projects funded by the NSFC and actively collaborates with industry partners such as Huawei, Tencent, and ByteDance. Dr. Xue welcomes research collaborations and applications from highly motivated students with backgrounds in computer science, artificial intelligence, and related areas.

Research Projects：

Key Technologies and Demonstration for Sustainable Smart Agriculture Management Based on the Computing Continuum, NSFC Key International (Regional) Cooperation Project, Jan. 2025 – Present (Ongoing).

Non-intrusive Code Analysis and Defect Detection Methods for IoT Systems, NSFC General Program, Jan. 2024 – Present (Ongoing).

Security Analysis Methods and Applications for Intelligent Mobile Systems, NSFC Excellent Young Scholars Program (Overseas), May 2023 – Present (Ongoing).

Agent Behavior Monitoring and Permission Control, CCF–Huawei Huyalin (Huangyanglin) Fund, Jan. 2026 – Dec. 2026 (Ongoing).

Security Technologies for Intelligent Connected Systems Based on Autonomous Vehicle Simulation, CCF–NSFOCUS Kunpeng Fund, Dec. 2024 – Present (Ongoing).

Security Analysis Methods for Firmware Update Mechanisms in Applied IoT Systems, NSFC Young Scientists Fund, Jan. 2021 – Dec. 2023 (Completed).

Enhancement of Security Large Models for SOCBench, ByteDance Industry Collaboration Project, Dec. 2025 – Jan. 2026 (Completed).

Semantic Analysis Techniques for Binary Programs, CCF–NSFOCUS Kunpeng Fund, Nov. 2022 – Oct. 2023 (Completed).

*Collaborative Research on Penetration Testing Technologies for Embedded CT Systems, Huawei Industry–Academia Cooperation Project, Jul. 2021 – Dec. 2022 (Completed).

*Code Security Hardening Based on Deep Program Synthesis, CCF–Tencent Rhino-Bird Research Fund, Nov. 2020 – Oct. 2021 (Completed, Excellent Project Award).

Academic Achievements：

[1] Yingjie Cao, Xiaoguang Zhu, Dean Sullivian, Haowei Yang, Lei Xue*, Xian Li, Chenxiong Qian, Minrui Yan, Xiapu Luo, ISOLATOS: Detecting Double Fetch Bugs in COTS RTOS by Re-enabling Kernel Isolation, Proceedings of Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, 2026

[2] Tianyu Qi, Lei Xue*, Yufeng Zhang, Xiaobo Ma, Sylva: Tailoring Personalized Adversarial Defense in Pre-trained Models via Collaborative Fine-tuning, Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2025

[3] Jican Zhang, Jianeng Zhang, Xin Shen, Lei Xue*, Fengwei Lin, Liming Nie, Kefeng Wu, Tao Zhang, Pingxin Du, Rethinking Code Similarity: A Logic-Based Framework for Cross-Language Analysis beyond Functional Equivalence, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025

[4] Xueli Fan, Zhiqian He, Jin Wu, Bohuan Xue, Chenxi Zhang, Lei Xue*, Consensus-Based Cooperative Control for Connected Vehicle Platoon with Time-Varying Delays and Switching Topologies, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), 2025

[5] Yangyang Liu, Lei Xue*, Sishan Wang, Kaifa Zhao, Xiaobo Ma, Yajuan Tang, Haiying Zhou, Pengfei Jing, Vehicular Intrusion Detection System for Controller Area Network: A Comprehensive Survey and Evaluation, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS), 2025

[6] Zhihang Wang, Lei Xue*, Xiapu Luo*, Xiaobo Ma, Guofei Gu, Driving State-Aware Anomaly Detection for Autonomous Vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2025

[7] Xinyu Ji, Lei Xue*, Zhiqian He, and Xiapu Luo*, Autonomous Driving System Testing via Diversity-Oriented Driving Scenario Exploration, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025

[8] Lei Xue*, Yuxiao Yan, Qiyi Tang, Le Yu, Xiapu Luo, Zhiqiang Cai, Sen Nie, Shi Wu, Guofei Gu, and Chenxu Wang, “Update If You Dare: Demystifying Bare-Metal Device Firmware Update Security of Appified IoT Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2024

[9] Lei Xue*, Yangyang Liu, Tianqi Li, Kaifa Zhao, Jianfeng Li, Le Yu, Xiapu Luo, Yajin Zhou, and Guofei Gu, “SAID: State-aware Defense Against Injection Attacks on In-vehicle Network,” in Proc. of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2022

[10] Lei Xue*, Hao Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Yajin Zhou, Yang Shi, Guofei Gu, Fengwei Zhang, and Man Ho Au, “Happer: Unpacking Android Apps via a Hardware-Assisted Approach,” in Proc. of 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2021.