I am currently a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. I received my Ph.D. degree from George Mason University in 2023, advised by Dr. Kun Sun at the Center of Secure Information System and honored with Outstanding Dissertation Award. My research interest is software security, with a focus on applying machine/deep learning for vulnerability detection, patch management, program analysis, etc. I am also interested in AI security and systems security. 

News

[01/2025] Our paper "DISPATCH: Unraveling Security Patches from Entangled Code Changes" accepted by USENIX Security 2025.

[10/2024] Our paper "FedCAP: Robust Federated Learning via Customized Aggregation and Personalization" accepted by ACSAC 2024. Youpeng received the ACSAC 2024 Student Conferenceship Award. Congrats!

[09/2024] Our paper "Enhancing Pre-Trained Language Models for Vulnerability Detection via Semantic-Preserving Data Augmentation" accepted by SecureComm 2024. Congrats to Weiliang!

[08/2024] Served in the TPC for USENIX Security 2025 and AsiaCCS 2025.

[05/2024] Served in the TPC for S&P (Oakland) 2025.

[04/2024] Our paper "Bridging the Gap: A Study of AI-based Vulnerability Management between Industry and Academia", in collaboration with Meta security researchers, accepted by DSN 2024 Industry Track.

[04/2024] Served in the TPC for DSN 2025.

[03/2024] Served in the TPC for RAID 2024.

[12/2023] Served in the TPC for ICDCS 2024 and AsiaCCS 2024.

[11/2023] Our paper "BinGo: Identifying Security Patches in Binary Code with Graph Representation Learning" accepted by AsiaCCS 2024.

[11/2023] Served in the TPC for MADWeb 2024, co-located with NDSS 2024.

[10/2023] Served as the web chair for CCS 2024.

[08/2023] Served in the TPC for DSN 2024.

[08/2023] Received Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) 2023 Faculty Scholarship.

Publications

(Underlined: PhD students at UTD. **co-first author)

• DISPATCH: Unraveling Security Patches from Entangled Code Changes. 

Shiyu Sun, Yunlong Xing, Xinda Wang, Shu Wang, Qi Li, and Kun Sun.

USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2025.

• FedCAP: Robust Federated Learning via Customized Aggregation and Personalization. [paper]

Youpeng Li, Xinda Wang, Fuxun Yu, Lichao Sun, Wenbin Zhang, and Xuyu Wang.

Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2024.

• Enhancing Pre-Trained Language Models for Vulnerability Detection via Semantic-Preserving Data Augmentation. [paper]

Weiliang Qi, Jiahao Cao, Darsh Poddar, Sophia Li, and Xinda Wang.

EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2024.

• Bridging the Gap: A Study of AI-based Vulnerability Management between Industry and Academia. [paper] [video]

Shengye Wan, Joshua Saxe, Craig Gomes, Sahana Chennabasappa, Avilash Rath, Kun Sun, and Xinda Wang.

IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Industry Track (DSN-Industry), 2024. 

• BinGo: Identifying Security Patches in Binary Code with Graph Representation Learning. [paper]

Xu He, Shu Wang, Pengbin Feng, Xinda Wang, Shiyu Sun, Qi Li, and Kun Sun.

ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2024. 

• GraphSPD: Graph-Based Security Patch Detection with Enriched Code Semantics. [paper] [code] [website]

Shu Wang**, Xinda Wang**, Kun Sun, Sushil Jajodia, Haining Wang, and Qi Li.

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2023. 

• Exploring Security Commits in Python. [paper] [dataset]

Shiyu Sun, Shu Wang, Xinda Wang, Yunlong Xing, Elisa Zhang, and Kun Sun.

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2023. 

• DeepEAD: Explainable Anomaly Detection from System Logs. [paper]

Xinda Wang, Kyeong Kim, Ye Wang, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, and Kieran Parsons.

IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC), 2023. 

• A Hybrid System Call Profiling Approach for Container Protection. [paper] [code]

Yunlong Xing**, Xinda Wang**, Sadegh Torabi, Zeyu Zhang, Lingguang Lei, and Kun Sun.

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2023.

• SysCap: Profiling and Crosschecking Syscall and Capability Configurations for Docker Images. [paper]

Yunlong Xing, Jiahao Cao, Xinda Wang, Sadegh Torabi, Kun Sun, Fei Yan, and Qi Li.

IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2022. 

• PatchRNN: A Deep Learning-Based System for Security Patch Identification. [paper] [code]

Xinda Wang, Shu Wang, Pengbin Feng, Kun Sun, Sushil Jajodia, Sanae Benchaaboun, and Frank Geck.

IEEE/AFCEA Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2021. 

• PatchDB: A Large-Scale Security Patch Dataset. [paper] [dataset] [code] [video]

Xinda Wang**, Shu Wang**, Pengbin Feng, Kun Sun, and Sushil Jajodia.

IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2021.

• A Machine Learning Approach to Classify Security Patches into Vulnerability Types. [paper] [dataset]

Xinda Wang, Shu Wang, Kun Sun, Archer Batcheller, and Sushil Jajodia. 

IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2020. 

(Best Paper Award Nomination)

• Detecting "0-Day" Vulnerability: An Empirical Study of Secret Security Patch in OSS. [paper] [dataset] [code] 

Xinda Wang, Kun Sun, Archer Batcheller, and Sushil Jajodia.

IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2019.

• An Empirical Study of Secret Security Patch in Open Source Software. [paper]

Xinda Wang, Kun Sun, Archer Batcheller, and Sushil Jajodia.

Adaptive Autonomous Secure Cyber Systems (pp. 269-289). Springer, Cham, 2020.

Teaching

UT Dallas

• Spring 2024 & 2025: CS/SE 4347 - Database Systems

• Fall 2024: CS 6301 - Secure Software Development

• Fall 2023: CS 6301 - AI and Software Security

George Mason University

• Spring 2023: AIT 681 - Secure Software Engineering (Guest Lecturer)

• Fall 2022: AIT 682 - Network and Systems Security (Guest Lecturer)

• Summer & Fall 2021: Montgomery Blair High School Magnet Senior Research Program (Mentor)

• Spring 2019: AIT 690 - Theory & Models for Cyber Situational Awareness (Guest Lecturer)

• Fall 2017 & Spring 2018: IT 293 - Applied Information Technology (Teaching Assistant)

Academic Services

• Organizing Committee: CCS 2024

• Program Committee: Usenix Security 2025, S&P 2025, RAID 2024, DSN 2024-2025, AsiaCCS 2024-2025, ICDCS 2024, NDSS-MADWeb 2024

• Artifact Evaluation Committee: ACSAC 2019-2022

• Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Computer & Security, Journal of Banking and Financial Technology, International Journal of Information Security

Honors & Awards

• GHC Faculty Scholarship (2023)

• CSIS Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award (2023)

• IEEE S&P Student Travel Grant (2023)

• GHC Student Scholarship (2022)

• Tapia Scholarship (2022, 2018)

• IEEE MILCOM Student Travel Grant (2021)

• IEEE CNS Best Paper Award Nomination (2020)

• IMC Suneeth Nayak Scholarship (2020)

• Top Winning Award of IEEE SERVICES Hackathon (2020)

• IEEE DSN Student Travel Award (2019)

• Outstanding Graduate Award of Harbin Institute of Technology (2017)

• Outstanding Undergraduate Student of Heilongjiang Province (2016)

• Nubia Scholarship (2016)

• Huawei Technologies Scholarship (2015)

• Fuji Xerox Scholarship (2014)