Minghong Fang

I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Louisville. I was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University from 2022 to 2024, working with Dr. Neil Gong. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University in August 2022, advised by Dr. Jia (Kevin) Liu. I am broadly interested in different areas of security, privacy, and machine learning.

Honors and Awards

• IFIP Networking Best Paper Runner-up Award, 2024.
• USENIX Security Symposium’20 paper measured as one of the Normalized Top-100 Security Papers since 1981.
• The Web Conference Student Travel Grant, 2021.
• IEEE ICC Student Travel Grant, 2020.
• Research Excellence Award, Iowa State University, 2020.
• ACSAC Student Conferenceship Award, 2018.

Selected Publications [Full List]

• Do We Really Need to Design New Byzantine-robust Aggregation Rules?. PDF

  Minghong Fang, Seyedsina Nabavirazavi, Zhuqing Liu, Wei Sun, Sundararaja Sitharama Iyengar, and Haibo Yang.

  In Proc. NDSS, 2025 (acceptance rate: 16.1%).

• Byzantine-Robust Decentralized Federated Learning. PDF

  Minghong Fang, Zifan Zhang, Hairi, Prashant Khanduri, Jia Liu, Songtao Lu, Yuchen Liu, and Neil Gong.

  In Proc. ACM CCS, 2024 (acceptance rate: 16.9%).

• FLTrust: Byzantine-robust Federated Learning via Trust Bootstrapping. PDF Code

  Xiaoyu Cao*, Minghong Fang*, Jia Liu, and Neil Zhenqiang Gong.

  In Proc. NDSS, 2021 (*co-primary authors, acceptance rate: 15.2%).

• Local Model Poisoning Attacks to Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning. PDF Code

  Minghong Fang*, Xiaoyu Cao*, Jinyuan Jia, and Neil Zhenqiang Gong.

  In Proc. USENIX Security Symposium, 2020 (*co-primary authors, acceptance rate: 16.1%).

  Normalized Top-100 Security Papers since 1981