DING Xuhua
Full-time Faculty
Professor of Computer Science; Co-Director, Centre on Security, Mobile Applications and Cryptography (S
School of Computing and Information Systems
SCIS
Qualification
- PhD, University of Southern California, 2003
Teaching Topics
- Networking
- Information Security & Trust
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Research Areas and Areas of Expertise
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HighlightsDING Xuhua is a leading expert in network and system security, applied cryptography, and trustworthy systems for data protection, with extensive contributions to secure computing and privacy-preserving technologies.
Pioneered methodologies in secure system design, combining cryptographic rigor with practical deployment in mobile, cloud, and hardware-assisted environments; recognized for bridging theory and real-world applications, especially in privacy, trustworthy computing, and incident response; instrumental in large-scale research grants and collaborative projects with industry and government agencies.
Focused research areas include Design and analysis of secure systems and protocols; cryptographic techniques for data protection; trusted execution environments; secure virtualization; privacy-preserving computation; secure multimedia content dissemination; incident response frameworks for mobile and cloud platforms.
Pioneered methodologies in secure system design, combining cryptographic rigor with practical deployment in mobile, cloud, and hardware-assisted environments; recognized for bridging theory and real-world applications, especially in privacy, trustworthy computing, and incident response; instrumental in large-scale research grants and collaborative projects with industry and government agencies.
Focused research areas include Design and analysis of secure systems and protocols; cryptographic techniques for data protection; trusted execution environments; secure virtualization; privacy-preserving computation; secure multimedia content dissemination; incident response frameworks for mobile and cloud platforms.
Areas of Expertise
Network and system securityapplied cryptographytrustworthy systems for data protectionsecure mobile computingvirtualization-based securityprivacy-preserving data managementhardware-assisted security.
Past Awarded Grant
- Development of Secured Components & Systems in Emerging Technologies through Hardware & Software Evaluation, National Cybersecurity R&D (NCR) Programme, Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), PI (Project Level): DING Xuhua, Debin GAO, Robert H DENG, David LO, Co-PI (Project Level): Guansong PANG, JIANG Lingxiao, DUAN Yue, YANG Guomin, PANG Hwee Hwa, 2023, S$11,365,070
- National Satellite of Excellence in Mobile Systems Security and Cloud Security, National Cybersecurity R&D (NCR) Programme, National Research Foundation (NRF), PI (Project Level): Robert H DENG, Co-PI (Project Level): Debin GAO, PANG Hwee Hwa, DING Xuhua, LI Yingjiu, 2019, S$7,498,320
- A Novel Hybrid Kernel Symbolic Execution Framework For Malware Analysis, NSoE TSS Grant Call, National Satellite of Excellence - Trustworthy Software Systems, PI (Project Level): DING Xuhua, Co-PI (Project Level): JIANG Lingxiao, 2019, S$715,000
- A system framework for reliable and dependable incident response on mobile devices, NSOE MSS-CS Research Programme, National Satellite of Excellence - Mobile Systems Security and Cloud Security, PI (Project Level): DING Xuhua, Co-PI (Project Level): Debin GAO, 2019, S$1,201,607
- AutoPrivacy Model: Automated Feature Modelling for Identifying Illegitimate Uses of Privacy-Sensitive Data in Mobile Applications, NSOE MSS-CS Research Programme, National Satellite of Excellence - Mobile Systems Security and Cloud Security, PI (Project Level): JIANG Lingxiao, Co-PI (Project Level): David LO, SHAR Lwin Khin, DING Xuhua, Debin GAO, 2019, S$700,403
Latest Publications
Showing up to 6 latest publications from the past 5 years.
- P Pitigalaarachchi, X DingProceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications …, 2025
- Enhancing the Security of One-Tap Authentication Services via Dynamic Application Identification [2025]D Liu, D Li, Y Guo, Y Guo, R Hu, J Liu, S Bian, X Ding, Y Liu, Z GuanIEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2025
- PRISM: To Fortify Widget Based User-App Data Exchanges Using Android Virtualization Framework [2025]YT Ng, Z Chen, H Qiu, X DingProceedings of the 20th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications …, 2025
- Y Zhang, F Zhang, X Luo, R Hou, X Ding, Z Liang, S Yan, T Wei, Z HeNDSS, 2025
- Y ZHANG, F ZHANG, X LUO, R HOU, X DING, Z LIANG, S YAN, T WE, ...Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security …, 2025
- Z Wang, J Zhan, X Ding, F Zhang, N Hu34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 25), 1187-1206, 2025
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Qualification
- PhD, University of Southern California, 2003
Teaching Topics
- Networking
- Information Security & Trust
