Academic Qualification
Ph.D., The Ohio State University, USA, 2025
M.S., The Ohio State University, 2024
B.Eng., Nanjing University, 2020
Teaching Area
Linear algebra
Computer programming
Research Area
Cybersecurity
Web security
Mobile security
Vulnerability and malware detection
Professional Services
Co-chair, The ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Superapps, 2025
Invited Expert, Miniapp Working Group, W3C Consortium, 2024-2026
Working Experience
Sept. 2026 ~ present: Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Innovation Engineering, MUST
June 2025 ~ Aug. 2026: Postdoctoral Researcher, CISPA Helmholtz Center of Information Security, Germany
Academic Publication (selected)
Xuenan Zhang, Yuqing Yang*, Giancarlo Pellegrino. “You Get What You Sample: Evaluating Sampling Strategies for Web Security Measurements”. The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2026. (CCF-A)
Hongkai Chen, Yuqing Yang*, Chao Wang, Moritz Schloegel, Tiffany Bao, Ruoyu Wang, Adam Doupé, Zhiqiang Lin, Yan Shoshitaishvili. “SoK: History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but Android Design-Level Vulnerabilities Rhyme in OpenHarmony”. The USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2026. (CCF-A)
Hongkai Chen, Chao Wang, Yuqing Yang*, Jennifer Miller, Tiffany Bao, Ruoyu Wang, Adam Doupé, Zhiqiang Lin, Yan Shoshitaishvili. “Fragile Deliveries: Inconsistencies in Android Parcel and Their Security Consequences”. The ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2026. (CCF-B)
Yuqing Yang*, Zhiqiang Lin. “Real or Rogue? Detecting Malicious Miniapps with Deceptive Reporting Interface”. The ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2026. (CCF-A)
Yuqing Yang*, Chao Wang, Zhiqiang Lin. “The Rise of Miniapps: A New Frontier with Security Challenges in Mobile Apps”. IEEE Security & Privacy, 2026
Yuqing Yang*, Zhiqiang Lin. “Stealthy Trackers: Uncovering Permission-less Fingerprinting in WeChat Miniapps”. The 3rd ACM Workshop on Security and Privacy of AI-Empowered Mobile Super Apps (SaTS @ CCS), 2025. (Distinguished Paper Award)
Yan Long, Jiancong Cui, Yuqing Yang*, Tobias Alam, Zhiqiang Lin, Kevin Fu. “ARMOUR US: Android Runtime Zero-permission Sensor Usage Monitoring from User Space”. The 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2025. (CCF-C)
Yuqing Yang*, Yue Zhang, Zhiqiang Lin. “Understanding the Miniapp Malware: Identification, Dissection, and Characterization”. The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2025. (CCF-A)
Yuqing Yang*, Chao Wang, Yue Zhang, Zhiqiang Lin. “SoK: Decoding the Super App Enigma: The Security Mechanisms, Threats, and Trade-offs in OS-alike Apps”. Arxiv preprint, 2024.
Yue Zhang, Yuqing Yang*, Zhiqiang Lin. “Don't Leak Your Keys: Understanding, Measuring, and Exploiting the AppSecret Leaks in Mini-Programs”. The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2023. (CCF-A)
Chao Wang, Ronny Ko, Yue Zhang, Yuqing Yang*, Zhiqiang Lin. “TAINTMINI: Detecting Flow of Sensitive Data in Mini-Programs with Static Taint Analysis”. The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2023. (CCF-A)
Yuqing Yang*, Yue Zhang, Zhiqiang Lin. “Cross Miniapp Request Forgery: Root Causes, Attacks, and Vulnerability Detection”. The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2022. (CCF-A)
Yuqing Yang*, Mohamed Elsabagh, Chaoshun Zuo, Ryan Johnson, Angelos Stavrou, Zhiqiang Lin. “Detecting and Measuring Misconfigured Manifest in Android Apps”. The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2022. (CCF-A)
Yue Zhang, Bayan Turkistani, Allen Yuqing Yang*, Chaoshun Zuo, Zhiqiang Lin. “A measurement study of Wechat Mini-apps”. The ACM SIGMETRICS/International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems(SIGMETRICS), 2021. (CCF-B)
