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)

1. 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)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. Yuqing Yang^*, Zhiqiang Lin. “Real or Rogue? Detecting Malicious Miniapps with Deceptive Reporting Interface”. The ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2026. (CCF-A)

5. Yuqing Yang^*, Chao Wang, Zhiqiang Lin. “The Rise of Miniapps: A New Frontier with Security Challenges in Mobile Apps”. IEEE Security & Privacy, 2026

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. 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.

10. 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)

11. 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)

12. 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)

13. 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)

14. 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)