Ph.D, Professor Faculty of Artificial Intelligence Shanghai University of Electric Power E-mail: kzhang@shiep.edu.cn; zhangkaiecnu@163.com [中文主页][Google Scholar][DBLP][ORCID][Codes]

About Me

Kai Zhang is currently a professor at the College of Computer Science and Technology, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai, China. Previously, he received Ph.D degree in East China Normal University (2012.09-2017.12) under the supervision of Prof. Jie Chen and Prof. Haifeng Qian. He was a research assistant in Nanyang Technological University (2017.03-2017.09) under the supervision of Prof. Huaxiong Wang. He visited Shanghai Jiaotong University (2023.09-2024.06) under the supervision of Prof. Haojin Zhu.

His research interests include applied cryptography and information security, he has published over 50 papers in international conferences and referred journals, such as EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, PKC, ACM AsiaCCS and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Theoretical Computer Science.

Research Interests

• Searchable Encryption, Functional Encryption and Their Applications

• AI Security, Cloud Security, Blockchain and PETs in Smart Grid

Experience

• 2025.10-Now, Professor, Faculty of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai University of Electric Power

• 2024.01-2025.10, Professor, College of Computer Science and Technology, Shanghai University of Electric Power

• 2023.09-2024.06, Visiting Scholar, Computer Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University

• 2020.03-2023.12, Associate Professor, College of Computer Science and Technology, Shanghai University of Electric Power

• 2018.02-2020.03, Assistant Professor, College of Computer Science and Technology, Shanghai University of Electric Power

• 2017.03-2017.09, Research Assistant, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• 2012.09-2017.12, Ph.D, Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University

• 2008.09-2012.06, Bachelor, Computer Science and Technology, Shandong Normal University

Selected Publications (Full List:[Google Scholar][DBLP][ORCID])

• When KGC Meets Curator: New Paradigm of Registered ABE and FE
  Ziqi Zhu, Jun Zhao, Kai Zhang, Junqing Gong, Haifeng Qian
  31st Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security (ASIACRYPT) (6) 2025: 35–67 [国际三大密码会]

• AdvBiTrans: An Efficient Botnet Detection Method based on Adversarial BiLSTM-Transformer in IIoT
  Yong Wang, Zhenyang Yan, Kai Zhang*, Mi Wen
  The Computer Journal (COMJNL), bxaf140, https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxaf140 (2025) [CCF-B]

• On Adversarial Attack Detection in Intrusion Detection System with Graph Neural Network
  Kai Zhang, Qingqing Li, Jianting Ning, Junqing Gong, Haifeng Qian
  The Computer Journal (COMJNL), bxaf096, https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxaf096 (2025) [CCF-B]

• Multi-writer/Reader Forward and Backward Private DSSE with Bilateral Selection
  Jiawen Wu, Kai Zhang*, Jianting Ning, Hao Chen, Lefeng Zhang, Zuobin Ying
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC) (2025) [CCF-A]

• AuthGraph: Authorized Search over Encrypted Social Graph Database with Trusted Hardware
  Jiawen Wu, Yifan Xu, Kai Zhang*, Pengfei Wu, Yuling Chen, Jianting Ning
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC) (2025) [CCF-A]

• Flamer: Flexible-Authorized Message Classification Against Message Recovery Attacks in Social IoV
  Meng Wu, Kai Zhang*, Liangliang Wang, Jianting Ning
  IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IEEE TVT) (2025) [SCI二区]

• Lightweight and Dynamic Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning via Functional Encryption
  Boan Yu, Jun Zhao, Kai Zhang*, Junqing Gong, Haifeng Qian
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE TIFS) 20:2496-2508 (2025) [CCF-A]

• Pattern Hiding and Authorized Searchable Encryption for Data Sharing in Cloud Storage
  Kai Zhang*, Boli Hu, Jianting Ning, Junqing Gong, Haifeng Qian
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE) 37 (5): 2802-2815 (2025) [CCF-A]

• PrivBox: Privacy-Preserving Deep Packet Inspection with Dual Double-masking Obfuscated Rule Generation
  Pengfei Wu, Jianting Ning, Xinyi Huang, Rongmao Chen, Kai Zhang, Kaitai Liang
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC) 22 (5): 4954-4970 (2025) [CCF-A]

• Coordinated Scheduling Optimization for Computility Center Microgrid Considering Computing Resources Dynamic Pooling
  Jian Zhao, Keran Huang, Yuan Gao, Xiaoyan Bian, Kai Zhang, Dongdong Li, Haoyang Cui
  Applied Energy (AE) 393:125971 (2025) [SCI一区]

• KA2SE: Key-Aggregation Authorized Searchable Encryption Scheme for Data Sharing in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Haijiang Wang, Jianting Ning, Wei Wu, Chao Lin, Kai Zhang
  IEEE Transactions on Services Computing(IEEE TSC) 18(1):226-238 (2025) [CCF-A]

• Fuzzy Multi-Keyword Search for Multi-Owner Scenario in IoV
  Jinguo Li, Yin He, Kai Zhang*, Peichun Yuan, Jie Yu
  IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IEEE TVT) 74(4):5698-5712 (2025) [SCI二区]

• Verifiable and Privacy-Enhanced Authorized Keyword Search for Mobile Cloud Storage
  Zhentao Long, Kai Zhang*, Jinguo Li, Pengfei Wu, Jianting Ning
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IEEE IoT-J) 12(6):7348-7359 (2025) [SCI二区]

• Practical Searchable Symmetric Encryption for Arbitrary Boolean Query-Join in Cloud Storage
  Jiawen Wu, Kai Zhang*, Lifei Wei, Junqing Gong, Jianting Ning
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE TIFS) 19:10086-10098 (2024) [CCF-A]

• Malicious-Resistant Non-Interactive Verifiable Aggregation for Federated Learning
  Yin Zhu, Junqing Gong, Kai Zhang, Haifeng Qian
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC) 21(6): 5600-5616 (2024) [CCF-A]

• Registered Functional Encryptions from Pairings
  Ziqi Zhu, Jiangtao Li, Kai Zhang, Junqing Gong, Haifeng Qian
  43rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, (EUROCRYPT) (2) 2024:373-402 [CCF-A]

• Public-Key Encryption with Keyword Search in Multi-user, Multi-challenge Setting under Adaptive Corruptions
  Yunhao Ling, Kai Zhang, Jie Chen, Qiong Huang, Haifeng Qian
  IACR International Conference on Public-Key Cryptography (PKC) (4)2024: 105-126, [CCF-B]

• Lavida: Large-universe, Verifiable and Dynamic Fine-grained Access Control for E-health Cloud
  Jun Zhao, Kai Zhang, Junqing Gong, Haifeng Qian
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE TIFS) 19:2732-2745 (2024) [CCF-A]

• Non-interactive Boolean Searchable Asymmetric Encryption with Bilateral Access Control
  Xiwen Wang, Kai Zhang*, Jinguo Li, Mi Wen, Shengmin Xu, Jianting Ning
  The Computer Journal (COMPJ) 67(1): 179–194 (2024) [CCF-B]

• Updatable Searchable Symmetric Encryption: Definitions and Constructions
  Xiwen Wang, Kai Zhang*, Junqing Gong, Shi-Feng Sun, Jianting Ning
  Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), 983: 114304 (2024) [CCF-B]

• Privacy-Preserving Traceable Encrypted Traffic Inspection in Blockchain-based Industrial IoT
  Kai Zhang, Minjun Deng, Bei Gong, Yinbin Miao, Jianting Ning
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IEEE IoT-J) 11(2):3484-3496 (2024) [SCI二区]

• FPCNN: A Fast Privacy-Preserving Outsourced Convolutional Neural Network with Low-Bandwidth
  Jinguo Li, Yan Yan, Kai Zhang*, Chunlin Lia, Peichun Yuan
  Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) 283:111181 (2024) [SCI一区]

• Registered ABE via Predicate Encodings
  Ziqi Zhu, Kai Zhang, Junqing Gong, Haifeng Qian
  29th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security (ASIACRYPT) (5)2023: 66–97 [国际三大密码会]

• DCDPI: Dynamic and Continuous Deep Packet Inspection in Secure Outsourced Middleboxes
  Minjun Deng, Kai Zhang*, Pengfei Wu, Mi Wen, Jianting Ning
  IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (IEEE TCC) 11(4):3510-3524 (2023) [CCF-C]

• Verifiable Cloud-Based Data Publish-Subscribe Service with Hidden Access Policy
  Chunlin Li, Jinguo Li, Kai Zhang, Yan Yan, Jianting Ning
  IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (IEEE TCC) 11(4):3737-3749 (2023) [CCF-C]

• Multi-Client Boolean File Retrieval with Adaptable Authorization Switching for Secure Cloud Search Services
  Kai Zhang, Xiwen Wang, Jianting Ning, Mi Wen, Rongxing Lu
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC) 20(6):4621-4636 (2023) [CCF-A]

• Secure Cloud-Assisted Data Pub/Sub Service with Fine-grained Bilateral Access Control
  Kai Zhang, Xiwen Wang, Jianting Ning, Junqing Gong, Xinyi Huang
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE TIFS) 18: 5286-5301 (2023) [CCF-A]

• Bounded-collusion Decentralized ABE with Sublinear Parameters
  Jun Zhao, Minghao Yang, Junqing Gong, Kai Zhang, Haifeng Qian
  Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), 960: 113897 (2023) [CCF-B]

• Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning via Functional Encryption, Revisited
  Yansong Chang, Kai Zhang, Junqing Gong, Haifeng Qian
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE TIFS) 18: 1855-1869 (2023) [CCF-A]

• Dual-Server Boolean Data Retrieval for Highly-Scalable Secure File Sharing Services
  Kai Zhang, Xiwen Wang, Jianting Ning, Xinyi Huang
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE TIFS) 18: 449-462 (2023) [CCF-A]

• Subversion-Resistant and Consistent Attribute-Based Keyword Search for Secure Cloud Storage
  Kai Zhang, Zhe Jiang, Jianting Ning, Xinyi Huang
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (IEEE TIFS) 17:1771-1784 (2022) [CCF-A]

• Forward Secure Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search for Outsourced Cloud Storage
  Ming Zeng, Haifeng Qian, Jie Chen, Kai Zhang
  IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (IEEE TCC) 10(1):426-438 (2022) [CCF-C]

• Multi-client Sub-Linear Boolean Keyword Searching for Encrypted Cloud Storage with Owner-enforced Authorization
  Kai Zhang, Mi Wen, Rongxing Lu, Kefei Chen
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC) 18(6): 2875-2887 (2021) [CCF-A]

• Updatable All-But-One Dual Projective Hashing and Its Applications
  Kai Zhang, Zhe Jiang, Junqing Gong, Haifeng Qian
  The 23rd International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS) 2021:358-374 [CCF-C]

• Public Key Encryption with Equality Test via Hash Proof System
  Ming Zeng, Jie Chen, Kai Zhang, Haifeng Qian
  Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) 795:20-35 (2019) [CCF-B]

• Efficient Public Key Encryption with Equality Test in The Standard Model
  Kai Zhang, Jie Chen, Hyung Tae Lee, Haifeng Qian, Huaxiong Wang
  Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) 755:65-80 (2019) [CCF-B]

• Lattice-Based Dual Receiver Encryption and More
  Daode Zhang, Kai Zhang*, Bao Li, Xianhui Lu, Haiyang Xue, Jie Li
  Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP) 2018: 520-538 [CCF-C]

• Practical and Efficient Attribute-Based Encryption with Constant-Size Ciphertexts in Outsourced Verifiable Computation
  Kai Zhang, Junqing Gong, Shaohua Tang, Jie Chen, Xiangxue Li, Haifeng Qian, Zhenfu Cao
  ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS) 2016:269-279 [CCF-C]