I’m a research fellow (Postdoc) at National University of Singapore under the supervision of Professor Zhenkai Liang. I received my Ph.D. degree at Tsinghua University under the supervision of Professor Chao Zhang, Qi Li and Zongpeng Li in 2024. I received a B.E. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2019 (with the highest honor). My primary research interests lie in artificial intelligence (AI) security. Specifically, I focus on the following areas:

1. AI security in the computer vision domain, such as adversarial, backdoor, and bit-flip attacks.
2. AI security in other domains (such as learning-based malware detectors, and binary function similarity detection models).
3. AI for security (such as developing learning-based models for binary function similarity detection).
4. AI interpretability.

Email: jialai@nus.edu.sg or wangjialai97@gmail.com

Publications

Conferences

Your Scale Factors are My Weapon: Targeted Bit-Flip Attacks on Vision Transformers via Scale Factor Manipulation

Jialai Wang, Yuxiao Wu, Weiye Xu, Yating Huang, Chao Zhang, Zongpeng Li, Mingwei Xu, Zhenkai Liang

To appear in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’25), Nashville, TN, USA, JUNE 11–15 2025

Improving ML-based Binary Function Similarity Detection by Assessing and Deprioritizing Control Flow Graph Features

Jialai Wang, Chao Zhang, Longfei Chen, Yi Rong, Yuxiao Wu, Hao Wang, Wende Tan, Qi Li, Zongpeng Li

To appear in the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security’24), Philadelphia, PA, USA, AUGUST 14–16 2024

Aegis: Mitigating Targeted Bit-flip Attacks against Deep Neural Networks

Jialai Wang, Ziyuan Zhang, Meiqi Wang, Han Qiu, Tianwei Zhang, Qi Li, Zongpeng Li, Tao Wei, Chao Zhang

To appear in the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security’23), Anaheim, CA, USA, AUGUST 9–11 2023

MPass: Bypassing Learning-based Static Malware Detectors

Jialai Wang, Wenjie Qu, Yi Rong, Han Qiu, Qi Li, Zongpeng Li, Chao Zhang

To appear in the Design Automation Conference (DAC’23), San Francisco, CA, USA, July 9-13 2023

BET: Black-box Efficient Testing for Convolutional Neural Networks

Jialai Wang, Han Qiu, Yi Rong, Hengkai Ye, Qi Li, Zongpeng Li, Chao Zhang

To appear in the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA’22), Daejeon, South Korea, July 2022

Journals

SmartTrans: Advanced Similarity Analysis for Detecting Vulnerabilities in Ethereum Smart Contracts

Longfei Chen, Hao Wang, Yuchen Zhou, Taiyu Wong, Jialai Wang, Chao Zhang

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2025

A Survey of Intelligent Malware Detection on Windows Platform

Jialai Wang, Chao Zhang, Xuyan Qi, Yi Rong

Journal of Computer Research and Development, 2021, 58(5): 977-994

Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) [2025]

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) [2024]

ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security [2024]

Journal of Systems Architecture: Embedded Software [2024]

External Reviewer

IEEE S&P

ACM CCS

ISSTA