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Ning Zhang [CV]

Spencer T. Olin Career Development Associate Professor
Computer Security and Privacy Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis
Email: zhang.ning@wustl.edu
Room: 3052 McKelvey Hall
Office Hour: Wed 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Phone: (314) 935 - 6576
Address:
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Campus Box 1045, Washington University
One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130


Bio

Dr. Ning Zhang is a Spencer T. Olin Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Before joining Washington University, he was a Principal Cyber Engineer/Researcher and Technical Lead at Raytheon from 2007 to 2018. Ning’s research focuses on the safety and security of cyber-physical systems. His work has received awards from DSN 2023, USENIX Security 2023, RTSS 2023, USENIX Security 2024, and ISORC 2025. Ning's work has also won the 2024 FTC Voice Cloning Challenge. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER, ARO ECP, and ARO PECASE awards.

Awards


Washington University Provost’s Research Excellence Award, 2025
Best Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium On Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC), 2025
Army Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2025
Distinguished Paper Award, USENIX Security, 2024
ARO Early Career Program (ECP) Award, 2024
Winner of FTC Voice Cloning Challenge, 2024
Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2023
Distinguished Artifact Award, USENIX Security, 2023
NSF CAREER Award, 2023
Best Paper Award, International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2023
Distinguished Paper Award, International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2023
Raytheon Advanced Scholar Fellowship

Service

Editorial

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Organization

IEEE CNS 2026 Program Chair
USENIX VehicleSec 2026 Program Chair
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026: Area Chair
IEEE Milcom 2025 Track Co-Chair for Cybersecurity
USENIX VehicleSec 2025 General Chair
ACM CCS 2025 Artifact Evaluation Chair
IEEE ICCCN 2023 Security and Privacy Track Chair
ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Topic Previewer

Technical Program Committee

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland)
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
USENIX Security Symposium (Security)
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
IEEE European Symposium of Security and Privacy (EuroS&P)
IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS)
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)
Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS)
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
Design Automation Conference (DAC)
ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec)
IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC)
EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm)

Journal Review

ACM Transaction on Privacy and Security
ACM Transaction on Cyber-physical System
ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems
IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
IEEE Transactions on Computers
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
IEEE Transaction on Vehicle Technology
Artificial Intelligence Review
KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems

Other Service

Panelist for Workshop on Distributed Ledger of Things 2018
Panelist for NSF