Biography

• Aug., 2012-Jul., 2016 B.S. Degree, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University
• Sep., 2016-Present Ph.D. student, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University. From my undergraduate years to Feb., 2019, I spent about 3.5 years working under the supervision of Dr. Jun Bi, a diligent and kind professor. Unfortunately, he suddenly passed away in Feb., 2019. Then I switched to the supervision of Dr. Jianping Wu and Dr. Mingwei Xu, to continue my Ph.D. study. During the past few years, I am fortunate to work with partners from my lab (Dr. Zhaogeng Li, Dr. Kai Gao, Jiasong Bai, Guanyu Li, Yi Qiao, Shicheng Wang, Chang Liu, Xiao Kong and etc.) and collaborators from Rice University (Dr. Ang Chen), Texas A&M University (Dr. Guofei Gu, Dr. Lei Xu) and Clemson University (Dr. Hongxin Hu).
• Feb., 2019-Jul., 2019 visiting scholar, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University, under the supervision of Dr. Guofei Gu.
• Research interest: (1) Software-Defined Programmable Network Security. I am familiar with Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Programmable data plane (P4), and extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF). Besides, I have deeply involved in a set of scenarios, such as data center network, cloud gateway, Denial-of-Service attacks, Network Intrusion Detection/Prevention System, Internet of Things, containers and etc. Most of my projects are trying to make software-defined networked systems more security and efficient. (2) Data-driven Network Anomaly Detection and Mitigation. I am also interested in leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms to do data-driven anomaly detection (e.g., network traffic analysis), which I believe is a promising direction.
• Email: zhangmenghao0503@gmail.com
• Github: https://github.com/ZhangMenghao

Publications

Selected Publications

1. Shicheng Wang, Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Chang Liu, Ying Liu, Xuya Jia, Mingwei Xu. Making Multi-String Pattern Matching Scalable and Cost-Efficient with Programmable Switching ASICs. In the 40th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Virtual Conference, May 10-13, 2021 (CCF-A/TH-CPL-A, full paper acceptance ration: 252/1266=19.9%)
2. Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Lei Xu, Jiasong Bai, Mingwei Xu, Guofei Gu, Jianping Wu. Control Plane Reflection Attacks and Defenses in Software-Defined Networks. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 2020 (CCF-A/TH-CPL-A, SCI Impact Factor 3.315, top journal in Computer Networks)
3. Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Shicheng Wang, Chang Liu, Ang Chen, Hongxin Hu, Guofei Gu, Qi Li, Mingwei Xu, Jianping Wu. Poseidon: Mitigating Volumetric DDoS Attacks with Programmable Switches. In the 27th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 23-26, 2020 (CCF-B/TH-CPL-A, full paper acceptance ratio: 88/506=17.4%, top conference in Security)
4. Guanyu Li, Menghao Zhang, Chang Liu, Xiao Kong, Ang Chen, Guofei Gu, Haixin Duan. NetHCF: Enabling Line-rate and Adaptive Spoofed IP Traffic Filtering. In the 27th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 7-10, 2019 (CCF-B/TH-CPL-A, full paper acceptance ratio: 38/210=18.1%)
5. Menghao Zhang, Jun Bi, Kai Gao, Yi Qiao, Guanyu Li, Xiao Kong, Zhaogeng Li, Hongxin Hu. Tripod: Towards a Scalable, Efficient and Resilient Cloud Gateway. In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Vol.37, No.3, 2019 (CCF-A/TH-CPL-A, SCI Impact Factor 11.42, top journal in Communications)
6. Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Lei Xu, Jun Bi, Guofei Gu, Jiasong Bai. Control Plane Reflection Attacks in SDNs: New Attacks and Countermeasures. In the 21st International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 10-12, 2018 (CCF-B/TH-CPL-B, full paper acceptance ratio: 32/145=22.1%)

Others

1. Xiao Kong, Naijia Liu, Menghao Zhang, Mingwei Xu. Analysis of online college teaching data before and after the COVID-19 epidemic. In Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology), September 23, 2020 (TH-CPL-B, In Chinese)
2. Jiasong Bai, Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li, Chang Liu, Mingwei Xu, Hongxin Hu. FastFE: Accelerating ML-based Traffic Analysis with Programmable Switches. In the 1st Workshop on Secure Programmable Network Infrastructure (SPIN), co-located with SIGCOMM 2020, New York, USA, August 10, 2020
3. Yi Qiao, Xiao Kong, Menghao Zhang, Yu Zhou, Mingwei Xu, Jun Bi. Towards In-network Acceleration of Erasure Coding. In the ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), San Jose, CA, USA, March 3, 2020
4. Shicheng Wang, Chang Liu, Ying Liu, Guanyu Li, Menghao Zhang, Yangyang Wang, Mingwei Xu. Fast Multi-string Pattern Matching using PISA. In CoNEXT Posters and Demos, Orlando, Florida, USA, December 9-12, 2019
5. Menghao Zhang, Jiasong Bai, Guanyu Li, Zili Meng, Hongda Li, Hongxin Hu, Mingwei Xu. When NFV Meets ANN: Rethinking Elastic Scaling for ANN-based NFs. In the 1st Workshop on Harnessing the Data Revolution in Networking (HDR-Nets), co-located with ICNP 2019, Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 7, 2019
6. Jiasong Bai, Menghao Zhang, Jun Bi. Survey of Attacks and Countermeasures for SDN. In ZTE Communications, Vol. 16, No. 4, 2018
7. Jiasong Bai, Jun Bi, Menghao Zhang, Guanyu Li. NetHCF: Filtering Spoofed IP Traffic Using Switching ASICs. In SIGCOMM Posters and Demos, Budapest, Hungary, August 20-25, 2018
8. Menghao Zhang, Jun Bi, Jiasong Bai, Guanyu Li. FloodShield: Securing the SDN Infrastructure Against Denial-of-Service Attacks. In the 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (TrustCom), New York, USA, July 31-August 3, 2018 (CCF-C)
9. Menghao Zhang, Jun Bi, Jiasong Bai, Yangyang Wang. DoS Attack Defense Framework for SDN Infrastructure. In Journal of Southeast University（Natural Science Edition), Jinan, Shandong, China, November 20-24, 2017 (In Chinese)
10. Menghao Zhang, Jun Bi, Jiasong Bai, Zhao Dong, Yongbin Li, Zhaogeng Li. FTGuard: A Priority-Aware Strategy Against the Flow Table Overflow Attack in SDN. In SIGCOMM Posters and Demos, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 22–24, 2017

Patents

• 张梦豪,李冠宇,白家松,刘畅,毕军. 源地址的验证方法、系统、存储介质及电子设备[P]. 202010938169.7, 2020-12-15.
• 毕军,乔奕,张梦豪. 基于无线局域网的源地址验证方法[P]. 201810524132.2, 2018-12-07.
• 毕军,张梦豪,白家松,高凯. 一种基于软件定义网络的源地址验证系统[P]. 201810191268.6, 2018-09-28. （已授权）

Professional Services

Technical Program Committee

• ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY) poster, 2020
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2021

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
• IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
• Computer Networks (CN)
• Computers & Security

External/Sub Reviewer

• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2020
• Usenix Security Symposium (Security), 2021
• ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2019, 2020, 2021
• International Symposium on Research Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2019
• Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2019
• Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2020
• European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2019
• ACM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), 2017, 2018, 2019
• IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2017
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2017, 2018
• IFIP International Conferences on Networking (Networking), 2020

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant, Internet Architecture and Security Foundation(74120013-0), Autumn 2019, worked with Dr. Qi Li
• Teaching Assistant, Network Routing Protocols and Security（84120042-0), Spring 2018, worked with Dr. Jun Bi
• Teaching Assistant, Internet Routing Algorithms and Protocols（80240452-0), Autumn 2017, worked with Dr. Jun Bi
• Teaching Assistant, Internet Architecture and Security Foundation（74120013-0), Autumn 2017, worked with Dr. Jun Bi

Selected Honors and Awards

• 2nd prize, 84 Scholarship for Innovations and Future, Tsinghua University, 2020 (¥50,000)
• Tang Lixin Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2020
• Souhu Research and Development Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2019
• IEEE ICNP Travel Grant, 2019
• Tsinghua Scholarship for Overseas Graduate Studies, 2018
• The Scholarship from Shanghai FiXun Digital Communication Technology Co., Ltd, Tsinghua University, 2017
• Student Chair, CCF ICoC 2017 Doctoral Forum, 2017
• ACM SIGCOMM Travel Grant, 2017
• Excellent Graduate, Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, 2016
• 3rd prize, Tsinghua University Network Security Technology Challenge Cup, 2015
• The Scholarship for Excellence in Technological Innovation, Tsinghua University, 2015
• The Scholarship of Huang Yicong and his wife, Tsinghua University, 2015
• 3rd prize, Tsinghua University Challenge Cup, 2015
• National Endeavor Scholarship in Tsinghua University, 2014
• The Scholarship of Huang Yicong and his wife, Tsinghua University, 2013
• 1st prize, National Physics Contest of College Students, 2013

Useful Links

• Top 4 Security Conference Statistic
• Computer Security Conference Statistics (By Dr. Guofei Gu)
• Top Conferences in Computer Science (CSRankings)
• Conference H5-Index in Computer Science (AMiner)
• Conference Ranking by Chinese Computer Federation (CCF)
• Top Cyber Security Conferences Ranking (By Dr. Jianying Zhou)
• Normalized Top-100 Security Papers (By Dr. Konrad Rieck)
• Conference Ranking by Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University (TH-CPL)