Paper from WHU was Nominated as the Best Paper of ACM CCS 2022

Recently, the 29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2022 (CCS) was held. Liu Jiawei, a doctoral student of the School of Information Management, was nominated for the best paper.

The paper is entitled "Order-Disorder: Imitation Adviserial Attacks for Black-box Neural Ranking Models". Wuhan University is the first signature unit, and the instructors are Professor Lu Wei (corresponding author) from the School of Information Management of Wuhan University, Associate Professor Liu Xiaozhong (co-corresponding author) from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Professor Xiaofeng Wang from the Indiana University. Di Tang, a postdoctoral fellow of Indiana University, Kang Yangyang, Song Kaisong and Sun Changlong, algorithm experts ofthe Alibaba DAMO Academy (Academy for Discovery, Adventure, Momentum and Outlook), participated in the work related to the paper.

It is learnt that ACM CCS has a history of nearly 30 years, which enjoys a high reputation in the field of system and network security. It has been leading the trend of international information security research, and recognized as a Class A international academic conference in the field of network and information security by the Chinese Computer Federation (CCF). Together with IEEE S&P, USENIX Security and NDSS, they have been regarded as the "top four conferences" in the field of network security in the industry. The Google H-5 index of ACM CCS is 98, ranking first in the journal conferences in the field of computer security and cryptography. CCS 2022 has received 971 valid papers and accepted 218 papers, in which 20 were nominated as the best papers.

Paper link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3548606.3560683