Dr. Yu Le

Dr. Yu is a teacher of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. In 2021, he received his Ph.D. degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University under the supervisor Dr. Xiapu Luo. After that, he became a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Aug 2021-June 2023). Dr.Yu focuses on combining program analysis and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to solve the security and privacy issues contained in Android apps, IoT devices, and vehicles (Google Scholar Homepage).

Currently, Dr. Yu is looking for highly motivated PhD students and research assistants in the areas of Mobile/IoT/System Security and Privacy, Software Engineering. If you have interests, please send emails to yulele08 [at] gmail.com.

Resarch Interests

• Android Security and Privacy
• Vehicle Security

Publications

1. L. Yu, Y. Liu, P. Jing, X. Luo, L. Xue, K. Zhao, Y. Zhou, T. Wang, G. Gu, S. Nie, and S. Wu, "Towards Automatically Reverse Engineering Vehicle Diagnostic Protocols", Proc. of the 31th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX SEC), Boston, USA, August 2022.
2. L. Yu, H. Wang, X. Luo, T. Zhang, K. Liu, J. Chen, H. Zhou, Y. Tang, and X. Xiao, "Towards Automatically Localizing Function Errors in Mobile Apps with User Reviews”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE).
3. L. Yu, X. Luo, J. Chen, H. Zhou, T. Zhang, H. Chang, and H. Leung, “PPChecker: Towards Accessing the Trustworthiness of Android Apps' Privacy Policies”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 47(2), Feb. 2021.
4. L. Yu, X. Luo, C. Qian, S. Wang, and H. Leung, “Enhancing the Description-to-Behavior Fidelity in Android Apps with Privacy Policy”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Volume: 44, Issue: 9, pp. 834–854, Sept. 2018.
5. L. Yu, J. Chen, H. Zhou, X. Luo, and K. Liu, "Localizing Function Errors in Mobile Apps with User Reviews", Proc. of 48th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), pp. 418-429, Luxembourg, June 2018.
6. L. Yu, T. Zhang, X. Luo, L. Xue, and H. Chang, "Towards Automatically Generating Privacy Policy for Android Apps", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Volume: 12, Issue: 4, pp. 865–880, April 2017.
7. L. Yu, X. Luo, X. Liu, and T. Zhang, "Can We Trust the Privacy Policies of Android Apps?", Proc. of the 46th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), pp. 538-549, Toulouse, France, June 2016.
8. L. Yu, X. Luo, C. Qian, and S. Wang, "Revisiting the Description-to-Behavior Fidelity in Android Applications", Proc. of 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER), pp. 415-426, Osaka, Japan, March 2016.

Other Co-authored Publications

• H. Zhang, L. Yu, X. Xiao, Q. Li, F. Mercaldo, X. Luo, Q. Liu, "TFE-GNN: A Temporal Fusion Encoder Using Graph Neural Networks for Fine-grained Encrypted Traffic Classification", Proc. of the ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2023
• K. Zhao, L. Yu, S. Zhou, J. Li, X. Luo, YFA. Chiu, Y. Liu, "A Fine-grained Chinese Software Privacy Policy Dataset for Sequence Labeling and Regulation Compliant Identification", Proc. of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022
• L. Xue, Y. Liu, T. LI, K. Zhao, J. Li, L. Yu, X. Luo, Y. Zhou, and G. Gu, “SAID: State-aware Defense Against Injection Attacks on In-vehicle Network", Proc. of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX SEC), Boston, USA, August 2022.
• L. Xue, H. Zhou, X. Luo, L. Yu, D. Wu, Y. Zhou, and X. Ma, “PackerGrind: An Adaptive Unpacking System for Android Apps”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Feb. 1 2022.
• K. Zhao, H. Zhou, Y. Zhu, K. Zhou, X. Zhan, J. Li, L. Yu, W. Yuan, and X. Luo, “Structural Attack against Graph Based Android Malware Detection”, Proc. of the 28th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Seoul, Korea, November 2021.
• H. Zhou, T. Chen, H. Wang, L. Yu, X. Luo, T. Wang, and W. Zhang, "UI Obfuscation and Its Effects on Automated UI Analysis for Android Apps", Proc. of the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Melbourne, Australia, September 2020.
• Y. Cai, Y. Tang, H. Li, L. Yu, H. Zhou, X. Luo, L. He, and P. Su, “Resource Race Attacks on Android”, Proc. of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), Ontario, Canada, February 2020.
• L. Xue, X. Luo, L. Yu, S. Wang, and D. Wu, "Adaptive Unpacking of Android Apps", Proc. of 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pp. 358-369, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2017.
• L. Xue, X. Ma, X. Luo, L. Yu, S. Wang, and T. Chen, "Is What You Measure What You Expect? Factors Affecting Smartphone-Based Mobile Network Measurement", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Atlanta, USA, May 2017.
• X. Luo, H. Zhou, L. Yu, L. Xue, and Y. Xie, "Characterizing mobile *-box applications", Computer Networks (COMNET), Volume 117, pp. 166-184, July 2016.
• C. Qian, X. Luo, L. Yu, and G. Gu, "VulHunter: Towards Discovering Vulnerabilities in Android Applications", IEEE Micro, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, pp. 44–53, Jan.-Feb. 2015.

Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
• Computers & Security
• Journal of Information Security and Applications