Associate Professor Guangdong Bai
Associate Professor Software Engine
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
+61 7 336 51187

Researcher biography
Dr Guangdong Bai is an Associate Professor at School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia. His research interests include Cyber Security, Software Engineering and Formal Methods.
He obtained his PhD degree from National University of Singapore, Singapore, and M.S. and B.S. degrees from Peking University, China.
Please visit his webpage for latest update: https://baigd.github.io/
Featured projects | Duration |
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Quantitative analysis of Consensus Protocols Industrial Partner Funded |
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User Privacy Protection for Credit Data on Mobile Devices | |
Cyber autonomy and automation | |
An Industrial Internet of Things Testbed for Secure Digital Agriculture UQ Cyber Seed Funding |
2021–2022 |
Formal Verification of Post-Quantum Cryptographic Primitives UQ Cyber Seed Funding |
2021–2023 |
Collaborated Learning with medical data making high-stake decisions without information leakage UQ Cyber Seed Funding |
2022 |
“Are Power Transformers Hackable?” - Leveraging Security and Reliability of Large Power Transformers in Australia’s Power Grids UQ Cyber Seed Funding |
2023 |
Book Chapter
Bean, Richard, Zhang, Yanjun, Ko, Ryan K. L., Mao, Xinyu and Bai, Guangdong (2023). Preserving the privacy and cybersecurity of home energy data. Emerging trends in cybersecurity applications. (pp. 323-343) edited by Kevin Daimi, Abeer Alsadoon, Cathryn Peoples and Nour El Madhoun. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-09640-2_14
Journal Articles
Wang, Kailong, Ling, Yuxi, Zhang, Yanjun, Yu, Zhou, Wang, Haoyu, Bai, Guangdong, Ooi, Beng Chin and Dong, Jin Song (2022). Characterizing Cryptocurrency-themed Malicious Browser Extensions. Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, 6 (3) 43, 1-31. doi: 10.1145/3570603
Zhang, Yanjun, Bai, Guangdong, Li, Xue, Nepal, Surya, Grobler, Marthie, Chen, Chen and Ko, Ryan K. L. (2022). Preserving privacy for distributed genome-wide analysis against identity tracing attacks. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 1-17. doi: 10.1109/tdsc.2022.3186672
Zhang, Peng-Fei, Bai, Guangdong, Yin, Hongzhi and Huang, Zi (2022). Proactive Privacy-preserving Learning for Cross-modal Retrieval. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 41 (2), 1-23. doi: 10.1145/3545799
Meng, Mark Huasong, Bai, Guangdong, Teo, Sin Gee, Hou, Zhe, Xiao, Yan, Lin, Yun and Dong, Jin Song (2022). Adversarial robustness of deep neural networks: A survey from a formal verification perspective. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 1-1. doi: 10.1109/tdsc.2022.3179131
Gao, Hongcan, Guo, Chenkai, Bai, Guangdong, Huang, Dengrong, He, Zhen, Wu, Yanfeng and Xu, Jing (2022). Sharing runtime permission issues for developers based on similar-app review mining. Journal of Systems and Software, 184 111118, 111118. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2021.111118
Mahadewa, Kulani, Wang, Kailong, Bai, Guangdong, Shi, Ling, Liu, Yan, Dong, Jin Song and Liang, Zhenkai (2020). Scrutinizing implementations of smart home integrations. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 47 (12), 1-1. doi: 10.1109/tse.2019.2960690
Wu, Yanfeng, Guo, Chenkai, Gao, Hongcan, Xu, Jing and Bai, Guangdong (2020). Dilated residual networks with multi-level attention for speaker verification. Neurocomputing, 412, 177-186. doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2020.06.079
Guo, Chenkai, Huang, Dengrong, Zhang, Jianwen, Xu, Jing, Bai, Guangdong and Dong, Naipeng (2020). Early prediction for mode anomaly in generative adversarial network training: an empirical study. Information Sciences, 534, 117-138. doi: 10.1016/j.ins.2020.05.046
Zhang, Yanjun, Bai, Guangdong, Zhong, Mingyang, Li, Xue and Ko, Ryan K. L. (2020). Differentially private collaborative coupling learning for recommender systems. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 36 (1) 9130104, 1-1. doi: 10.1109/MIS.2020.3005930
Dong, Naipeng, Bai, Guangdong, Huang, Lung-Chen, Lim, Edmund Kok Heng and Dong, Jin Song (2020). A blockchain-based decentralized booking system. Knowledge Engineering Review, 35 e17, e17. doi: 10.1017/s0269888920000260
Gao, Hongcan, Guo, Chenkai, Huang, Dengrong, Hou, Xiaolei, Wu, Yanfeng, Xu, Jing, He, Zhen and Bai, Guangdong (2020). Autonomous Permission Recommendation. IEEE Access, 8 8962006, 76580-76594. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2967139
Kumar, Pardeep, Lin, Yun, Bai, Guangdong, Paverd, Andrew, Dong, Jin Song and Martin, Andrew (2019). Smart grid metering networks: a survey on security, privacy and open research issues. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 21 (3), 2886-2927. doi: 10.1109/comst.2019.2899354
Bai, Guangdong, Ye, Quanqi, Wu, Yongzheng, Botha, Heila, Sun, Jun, Liu, Yang, Dong, Jin Song and Visser, Willem (2018). Towards model checking Android applications. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 44 (6), 595-612. doi: 10.1109/tse.2017.2697848
Bai, Guangdong, Yan, Lin, Gu, Liang, Guo, Yao and Chen, Xiangqun (2014). Context-aware usage control for Web of Things. Security and Communication Networks, 7 (12), 2696-2712. doi: 10.1002/sec.424
Conference Papers
Shen, Liyue, Zhang, Yanjun, Wang, Jingwei and Bai, Guangdong (2022). Better Together: Attaining the Triad of Byzantine-robust Federated Learning via Local Update Amplification. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3564625.3564658
Wan, Liuhuo, Zhang, Yanjun, Li, Ruiqing, Ko, Ryan, Hoffman, Louw and Bai, Guangdong (2022). SATB: A Testbed of IoT-Based Smart Agriculture Network for Dataset Generation. 18th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2022), Brisbane, QLD Australia, 28–30 November 2022. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-22064-7_11
Li, Suwan, Bu, Lei, Bai, Guangdong, Guo, Zhixiu, Chen, Kai and Wei, Hanlin (2022). VITAS : Guided Model-based VUI Testing of VPA Apps. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3551349.3556957
Xie, Fuman, Zhang, Yanjun, Yan, Chuan, Li, Suwan, Bu, Lei, Chen, Kai, Huang, Zi and Bai, Guangdong (2022). Scrutinizing Privacy Policy Compliance of Virtual Personal Assistant Apps. ASE '22: 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Rochester, MI United States, 10 - 14 October 2022. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3551349.3560416
Zhang, Chenhao, Zhang, Yanjun, Mao, Jeff, Chen, Weitong, Yue, Lin, Bai, Guangdong and Xu, Miao (2022). Towards better generalization for neural network-based SAT solvers. 26th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2022, Chengdu, China, 16-19 May 2022. CHAM: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-05936-0_16
Xie, Fuman, Zhang, Yanjun, Wei, Hanlin and Bai, Guangdong (2022). UQ-AAS21: A comprehensive dataset of Amazon Alexa skills. 17th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining Applications (ADMA), Online, 2-4 February, 2022. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-95405-5_12
Zhang, Yanjun, Bai, Guangdong, Li, Xue, Curtis, Caitlin, Chen, Chen and Ko, Ryan K. L. (2021). Privacy-preserving gradient descent for distributed genome-wide analysis. ESORICS 2021 - 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Darmstadt, Germany, 4–8 October, 2021. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-88428-4_20
Mahadewa, Kulani, Zhang, Yanjun, Bai, Guangdong, Bu, Lei, Zuo, Zhiqiang, Fernando, Dileepa, Liang, Zhenkai and Dong, Jin Song (2021). Identifying privacy weaknesses from multi-party trigger-action integration platforms. ISSTA '21: 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, Virtual, Denmark, 11 - 17 July 2021. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3460319.3464838
Wei, Hanlin, Hassanshahi, Behnaz, Bai, Guangdong, Krishnan, Padmanabhan and Vorobyov, Kostyantyn (2021). MoScan: A model-based vulnerability scanner for web single sign-on services. 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis ISSTA 2021, Online, 11 - 17 July 2021. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3460319.3469081
Wang, Kailong, Zhang, Junzhe, Bai, Guangdong, Ko, Ryan and Dong, Jin Song (2021). It’s Not Just the Site, It’s the Contents: Intra-domain Fingerprinting Social Media Websites Through CDN Bursts. WWW '21: The Web Conference 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19-23 April 2021. New York, NY United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3442381.3450008
Choi, Taejun, Bai, Guangdong, Ko, Ryan K. L., Dong, Naipeng, Zhang, Wenlu and Wang, Shunyao (2021). An analytics framework for heuristic inference attacks against industrial control systems. 2020 IEEE 19th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 202, Guangzhou, China, 29 December 2020-1 January 2021. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/TrustCom50675.2020.00112
Wang, Liu, Li, Ruiqing, Zhu, Jiaxin, Bai, Guangdong and Wang, Haoyu (2021). A large-scale empirical study of COVID-19 themed GitHub repositories. 45th Annual International IEEE-Computer-Society Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Madrid, Spain, 12-16 July 2021. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/compsac51774.2021.00124
Lu, Yuteng, Sun, Weidi, Bai, Guangdong and Sun, Meng (2021). DeepAuto: a first step towards formal verification of deep learning systems. 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2021), Pittsburg, PA, United States, 1 - 10 July 2021. Skokie, IL, United States: Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School. doi: 10.18293/SEKE2021-090
Wang, Liu, Li, Ruiqing, Zhu, Jiaxin, Bai, Guangdong, Su, Weihang and Wang, Haoyu (2021). Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on github developers: a preliminary study. 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2021), Pittsburg, PA, United States, 1 - 10 July 2021. Skokie, IL, United States: Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School. doi: 10.18293/SEKE2021-132
Xia, Pengcheng, Wang, Haoyu, Luo, Xiapu, Wu, Lei, Zhou, Yajin, Bai, Guangdong, Xu, Guoai, Huang, Gang and Liu, Xuanzhe (2020). Don't Fish in Troubled Waters! Characterizing Coronavirus-Themed Cryptocurrency Scams. APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), Online, 16-19 November 2020. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/eCrime51433.2020.9493255
Ji, Ru, He, Ningyu, Wu, Lei, Wang, Haoyu, Bai, Guangdong and Guo, Yao (2020). DEPOSafe: Demystifying the Fake Deposit Vulnerability in Ethereum Smart Contracts. 2020 25th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS), Singapore, 28-31 October 2020. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICECCS51672.2020.00022
Wei, Hanlin, Bai, Guangdong and Luo, Zongwei (2020). Foggy: a new anonymous communication architecture based on microservices. 25th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS), Singapore, Singapore, 28 - 31 October 2020. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/iceccs51672.2020.00023
Zhang, Yanjun, Bai, Guangdong, Li, Xue, Curtis, Caitlin, Chen, Chen and Ko, Ryan K. L. (2020). PrivColl: practical privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning. European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Guildford, United Kingdom, 14-18 September 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58951-6_20
Meng, Mark H., Bai, Guangdong, Liu, Joseph K., Luo, Xiapu and Wang, Yu (2019). Analyzing use of high privileges on android: an empirical case study of screenshot and screen recording applications. 14th International Conference, Inscrypt 2018, Fuzhou, China, 14-17 December 2018. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-14234-6_19
Ye, Quanqi, Zhang, Yan, Bai, Guangdong, Dong, Naipeng, Liang, Zhenkai, Dong, Jin Song and Wang, Haoyu (2019). LightSense: a novel side channel for zero-permission mobile user tracking. 22nd International Conference, ISC, New York, NY, United States, 16-18 September 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-30215-3_15
Liu, Tianming, Wang, Haoyu, Li, Li, Bai, Guangdong, Guo, Yao and Xu, Guoai (2019). DaPanda: detecting aggressive push notifications in android apps. 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), San Diego, CA, United States, 10-11 November 2019. New York, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . doi: 10.1109/ASE.2019.00017
Lin, Yun, Sun, Jun, Tran, Lyly, Bai, Guangdong, Wang, Haijun and Dong, Jinsong (2018). Break the dead end of dynamic slicing: localizing data and control omission bug. 33rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Montpellier, France, 3-7 September 2018. New York, NY USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1145/3238147.3238163
Thin, Wai Yan Maung Maung, Dong, Naipeng, Bai, Guangdong and Dong, Jin Song (2018). Formal Analysis of a Proof-of-Stake Blockchain. 23rd International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS), Melbourne, VIC Australia, 12-14 December 2018. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/iceccs2018.2018.00031
Ye, Quanqi, Bai, Guangdong, Dong, Naipeng and Dong, Jin Song (2018). Inferring implicit assumptions and correct usage of mobile payment protocols. 13th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Niagara Falls, Canada, 22-25 October 2017. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-78813-5_24
Wang, Kailong, Bai, Guangdong, Dong, Naipeng and Dong, Jin Song (2018). A Framework for Formal Analysis of Privacy on SSO Protocols. 13th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Niagara Falls Canada, 22-25 October 2017. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-78813-5_41
Chen, Binbin, Dong, Xinshu, Bai, Guangdong, Jauhar, Sumeet and Cheng, Yueqiang (2017). Secure and efficient software-based attestation for industrial control devices with ARM processors. 33rd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Orlando, FL, United States, 4-8 December, 2017. Washington, DC United States: I E E E Computer Society. doi: 10.1145/3134600.3134621
Li, Li, Dong, Naipeng, Pang, Jun, Sun, Jun, Bai, Guangdong, Liu, Yang and Dong, Jin Song (2017). A verification framework for stateful security protocols. 19th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM), Xian, Peoples Republic of China, 13-17 November 2017. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-68690-5_16
Guo, Chenkai, Dong, Naipeng, Bai, Guangdong, Ye, Quanqi, Dong, Jinsong, Xu, Jing and Si, Guannan (2017). App genome: callback sequencing in Android. IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion (ICSE-C), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 20-28 May 2017. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/icse-c.2017.82
Guo, Chenkai, Ye, Quanqi, Dong, Naipeng, Bai, Guangdong, Dong, Jin Song and Xu, Jing (2016). Automatic construction of callback model for android application. 21st International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 6-8 November 2016. Los Alamitos, CA, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICECCS.2016.041
Bai, Guangdong, Hao, Jianan, Wu, Jianliang, Liu, Yang, Liang, Zhenkai and Martin, Andrew (2014). TrustFound: Towards a formal foundation for model checking trusted computing platforms. FM: International Symposium on Formal Methods, Singapore, Singapore, 12-16 May 2014. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-06410-9_8
Li, Xiaolei, Hu, Hong, Bai, Guangdong, Jia, Yaoqi, Liang, Zhenkai and Saxena, Prateek (2014). DroidVault: A Trusted Data Vault for Android Devices. 19th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS), Tianjin, China, 4-7 August 2014. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/iceccs.2014.13
Li, Xiaolei, Bai, Guangdong, Liang, Zhenkai and Yin, Heng (2013). A Software Environment for Confining Malicious Android Applications via Resource Virtualization. 18th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS), Singapore, 17-19 July 2013. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/iceccs.2013.38
Hao, Jianan, Liu, Yang, Cai, Wentong, Bai, Guangdong and Sun, Jun (2013). vTRUST: a formal modeling and verification framework for virtualization systems. 15th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM), Queenstown, New Zealand, 29 October-1 November 2013. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
Bai, Guangdong, Gu, Liang, Feng, Tao, Guo, Yao and Chen, Xiangqun (2010). Context-aware usage control for Android. 6th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2010), Singapore, Singapore, 7-9 September 2010. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.