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Zijian Zhang (张子剑), Professor

School of Cyberspace Science & Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology

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Biography

Zijian Zhang is currently a Professor in the School of Cyberspace Science and Technology at Beijing Institute of Technology, China. His current research interests include AI Security, Blockchain Security, Data Privacy and Anonymous Communication. He has published more than 100 research papers in international peer-reviewed conferences, transactions, and magazines, including ICML, WWW, AAAI, INFOCOM, TDSC, TIFS, TKDE, TMC, TPDS, etc. He has won the best paper award on IWQoS'17, ICC'24 and ICA3PP'20.

News

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looking for self-motivated Ph.D. and master students to join my group, and accept senior undergraduate students to the research group. Please email me ( zhangzijian@bit.edu.cn) your CV if you are interested.

[August. 2025] 🔥

One paper namely Threshold Signatures with Verifiably Timed Combining and Message-Dependent Tracing collaborated with Hefei University of Technology has been accepted by TIFS!

[August. 2025] 🔥

Congratulations to Zhiyuan's paper Advanced Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection via LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Systems has been accepted by IEEE TSE!

[July. 2025] 🔥

Congratulations to Xuyang's paper The Deferred Byzantine Generals Problem has been accepted by IEEE TIFS!

[July. 2025] 🔥

Congratulations to Zhaoqi's paper Resisting Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning via Dual-Domain Distance and Trust Assessment has been accepted by IEEE TIFS!

[June. 2025] 🔥

Congratulations to Xuyang's paper Group BFT: Two-Round BFT Protocols via Replica Grouping has been accepted by IEEE TDSC!

[June. 2025] 🔥

One paper namely S-RAG: A Novel Audit Framework for Detecting Unauthorized Use of Personal Data in RAG Systems collaborated with University of Auckland has been accepted by ACL!

[June. 2025] 🔥

Congratulations to Xuyang's paper ABSE: Adaptive Baseline Score-based Election for Leader-based BFT Systems has been accepted by IEEE TPDS!

Professional Experience

Selected Publications

Monograph

Papers

Awards

Award 1 Award 2 Award 3

Fundings

  1. National Nature Science Foundation of China(General Program), Blockchain-powered Privacy-Preserving Federations Learning Methods and Key technology Research(62172040), 2022.1-2025.12, Principal Investigator.
  2. National Key R&D Program of China, Research and Development of Key Technologies for Blockchain Software and Hardware Collaboration(2021YFB2701202), 2021.12-2024.12, Principal Investigator.

Services

Membership

Journal Editorial Board

Conference Program Commitee

Reviewer

Students

Current Students

Ph.D. Students

  • Yan Wu (2020 - present) co-supervisor
  • Zhenyu Guo (2020 - present) co-supervisor
  • Jiahang Sun (2020 - present) co-supervisor
  • Hao Sun (2020 - present) co-supervisor
  • Zhiyuan Wei (2021 - present)
  • Zhibo Xing (2021 - present)
  • Xiangbo Yuan (2021 - present) co-supervisor
  • Zhen Li (2022 - present)
  • Xuyang Liu (2022 - present)
  • Simeng Bai (2022 - present) co-supervisor
  • Xi Chen (2023 - present)
  • Jiaqi Gao (2023 - present)
  • Yitong Chen (2023 - present)
  • Zilve Fan (2023 - present)
  • Yangnan Guo (2023 - present)
  • Xingkai Kang (2023 - present) co-supervisor
  • Xianhao Zhang (2024 - present)
  • Zhaoqi Wang (2024 - present)
  • Yifan Wang (2024 - present) co-supervisor
  • Wenjin Yang (2024 - present)
  • Yihan Wang (2024 - present) co-supervisor
  • Pengbo Wang (2024 - present) co-supervisor
  • Ziang Zhang (2025 - present)
  • Qi You (2025 - present) co-supervisor
  • Yutong Zhao (2025 - present) co-supervisor
  • Chen Yan (2025 - present) co-supervisor

Master Students

  • Yunting Li (2023-present)
  • Xiaoxuan Yang (2023-present) co-supervisor
  • Bochao Li (2023-present) co-supervisor
  • Aohang Liu (2023-present) co-supervisor
  • Xinyue Zhang (2023-present) co-supervisor
  • Haibo Sun (2023-present) co-supervisor
  • Yinghao Tang (2023-present) co-supervisor
  • Xiaoxin Huang (2024-present)
  • Xun Zhang (2024-present)
  • Youyi Chen (2024-present)
  • Kun Zheng (2024-present) co-supervisor
  • Qi He (2024-present) co-supervisor
  • Linfeng Wu (2024-present) co-supervisor
  • RongChuan Hu (2024-present) co-supervisor
  • Shiyu Mu (2024-present) co-supervisor
  • Feng Hu (2024-present) co-supervisor
  • Yongxuan Li (2025-present)
  • Shuyu Ji (2025-present)
  • Mingzhi Gao (2025-present)

Visiting Abroad

  • Xianhao Zhang will go to University of Auckland as a dual Ph.D. student with the sponsorship of CSC, 2025
  • Wenjin Yang will go to University of Auckland as a dual Ph.d. student with the sponsorship of CSC, 2025
  • Yitong Chen went to University of Auckland as a visiting student with the sponsorship of CSC, 2025
  • Xi Chen went to University of Auckland as a visiting student with the sponsorship of CSC, 2025
  • Xuyang Liu went to University of Auckland as a dual Ph.D. student with the sponsorship of CSC, 2024
  • Zhibo Xing went to University of Auckland as a dual Ph.D. student with the sponsorship of CSC, 2023

Alumni

Ph.D.'s Graduates

  • Meng Li (graduation time: 2019) co-supervisor - Associate Professor at Hefei University of Technology
  • YiweiLiu (graduation time: 2021) co-supervisor - State Administration of Science. Technology and Industry for National Defense
  • Jialing He (graduation time: 2022) co-supervisor - Lecture at Chongqing University
  • Hao Yin (graduation time: 2022) co-supervisor - National Internet Emergency Center
  • Xin Lu (graduation time: 2024) - State Radio Regulation of China

Master's Graduates

  • Yin Lei (graduation time: 2025) co-supervisor - Beijing No. 8 Middle School
  • Xingyu Yang (graduation time: 2025) co-supervisor - Peking University
  • Teng Ma (graduation time: 2025) co-supervisor - Meituan
  • Qingyu Wei (graduation time: 2025) co-supervisor - Alibaba
  • Cuiting Guo (graduation time: 2025) co-supervisor - Tencent
  • Chengyi Li (graduation time: 2025) - Tencent
  • Haotian Zhang (graduation time: 2025) - Meituan
  • Guoqiang Zhang (graduation time: 2025) - Fudan University
  • Tianyao Pan (graduation time: 2024) co-supervisor - China Galaxy Securities Co., Ltd.
  • Qing Wei (graduation time: 2024) co-supervisor - Other
  • Xin Zhao (graduation time: 2024) co-supervisor - State Grid Corporation of China
  • Tongzhou Shen (graduation time: 2024) co-supervisor - State Grid Corporation of China
  • Kaiyu Feng (graduation time: 2024) - ByteDance
  • Lei Qiu (graduation time: 2024) - Meituan
  • Jiaqi Zhang (graduation time: 2023) co-supervisor - Aerospace Fourth Academy Beijing Control And Electronic Technology Research Institute
  • Defeng Gao (graduation time: 2023) - Academy of Chinese weapon science
  • Shaochen Lin (graduation time: 2023) - State Grid Corporation of China
  • Shuqi Wang (graduation time: 2023) - China Life
  • Yuming Tang (graduation time: 2023) - Shenzhen Zhiling Haina Technology Co., Ltd.
  • Yitian Zhang (graduation time: 2023) - Shenwan Hongyuan Securities Co., Ltd.
  • Yang Yu (graduation time: 2022) - Ant (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
  • Zhouyu Zhang (graduation time: 2022) co-supervisor - Industrial Bank Co., Ltd
  • Minxian Wang (graduation time: 2022) - Bank of Beijing
  • Wencong Liu (graduation time: 2022) - Alibaba
  • Zhengjia Zhu (graduation time: 2021) co-supervisor - Kuaishou
  • Haotian Cao (graduation time: 2021) co-supervisor - Alibaba
  • Jiasheng Li (graduation time: 2021) co-supervisor - Tencent
  • Caifei Shen (graduation time: 2021) co-supervisor - China Construction Bank
  • Shaoyuan Liu (graduation time: 2021) - Meituan
  • Siyu Zhang (graduation time: 2021) - Agricultural Bank of China
  • Rui Jin (graduation time: 2021) - DiDi
  • Kaibin Wan (graduation time: 2021) - Huan Li Culture Communication (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (Disney Hotstar)
  • Congyu Huang (graduation time: 2020) - Tencent
  • Weilie Liu (graduation time: 2020) - Other
  • Xinyi Li (graduation time: 2020) - China Everbright Bank Co., Ltd
  • Qi Zhou (graduation time: 2019) - Meituan
  • Zhesi Zhu (graduation time: 2019) - Other
  • Pengchuan Su (graduation time: 2019) - Shenzhen Shupeng Technology Co., Ltd.
  • Zhongxi Zhan (graduation time: 2018) - Other
  • Wenqiang Cao (graduation time: 2018) - Baidu
  • Huishan Bian (graduation time: 2018) co-supervisor - China Merchants Bank
  • Nan Sun (graduation time: 2017) co-supervisor - China Railway Economic Planning Research Institute
  • Chengcheng Jin (graduation time: 2017) - China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation Limited
  • Mingxin Chen (graduation time: 2017) co-supervisor - China Minsheng Banking Corp., Ltd.
  • Angge Tong (graduation time: 2017) - Tencent
  • Chen Xu (graduation time: 2017) - Baidu
  • Junhao Yang (graduation time: 2016) - China Merchants Bank
  • Wanli Yang (graduation time: 2016) - Currently:First Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security of China
  • Shiqiang Chen (graduation time: 2016) - China Electronics Cyberspace Great Wall Co.,Ltd.
  • Yan Bai (graduation time: 2015) - Bank of China
  • Hasan (graduation time: 2015) - University of Missouri-Kansas City