Heqing Huang
Young scholar in the field of computer security research
national-level high-level overseas talent introduction expert
Dr. Huang Heqing is an active young scholar in the field of computer security research. As a national-level high-level overseas talent introduction expert, Huang has rich research results and aims at the international frontier. Dr. Huang entered HUST in 2006, majoring in computer and information security. After graduation, Huang went to the United States to study for a doctorate. In 2016, he received his Ph.D. in network security from Pennsylvania State University, and has joined varies of network security companies, such as Fire Eye, IBM and ByteDance. His core works include participate in IBM Cloud Security and lead the DARPA Trusted Transparent Cloud Computing Project of the US Department of Defense, act as the head of cloud security architecture and leader of the American Research Institute in ByteDance (the first Chinese security R&D leader in North America), and won the thesis award for the best outstanding doctoral student from the Global Computer Security Annual Conference (ACSAC) for his work on enterprise security, and was also the first Chinese winner since the top-level conference was founded 36 years ago. He is good at using Big Data and AI algorithm strategy to improve the overall security offense and defense capability. The research results have been applied by FBI in security report, and he is the winner of EB1A and O1A of outstanding American talent. He has 15 approved U.S. patents on network security, and the number of patents for international high-quality articles in the security field is 50 +, including those published in ACM CCS, Top-level security conferences such as Usenix Security. His articles have been cited more than 1200 + times, the H-index is 15 and the I10-index is 18, specifically cited by 101 universities and 27 research institutions from 5 continents, including Beijing University, SJTU, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Austin University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Illinois-Champaign and other well-known universities, as well as the US Air Force Laboratory, Bell Laboratory, Microsoft Research Institute and Intel Research Institute.