I am currently pursuing my PhD at the School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University, China, while also serving as a visiting student at the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

My research interest includes cryptography, secure aggregation in federated learning and privacy-preserving machine learning. I have published 5 papers at the journals.

🔥 News

• 2025.02:  🎉🎉 The paper “Enhancing Security and Privacy in Federated Learning using  Low-Dimensional Update Representation and Proximity Based Defense” is accpted by TKDE 2025.

📝 Publications

• TKDE 2025Enhancing Security and Privacy in Federated Learning using  Low-Dimensional Update Representation and Proximity Based Defense, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Li Wenjie, Fan Kai, Zhang Jingyuan, Li Hui, Lim Wei Yang Bryan, Yang Qiang. More details

• IOTJ 2023 PBFL: Privacy-Preserving and Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning Empowered Industry 4.0, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Li Wenjie, Fan Kai, Yang Kan, Yang Yintang, Li Hui.

• IOTJ 2023 Flsg: a novel defense strategy against inference attacks in vertical federated learning, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Kai Fan, Hong Jingtao, Wenjie Li, Xingwen Zhao, Hui Li, Yintang Yang.

• PPNA 2023 A revocable attribute-based encryption EHR sharing scheme with multiple authorities in blockchain, Peer-to-peer Networking and Applications, Yang Xiaohui, Li Wenjie*, Fan Kai.

• C&S 2020 A zero-knowledge-proof-based digital identity management scheme in blockchain, Computers & Security, Yang Xiaohui, Li Wenjie*.

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2021 Outstanding graduate of Hebei province.
• 2020 Graduate National Scholarship.

📖 Educations

• 2023.11 - 2024.10, Visiting Ph.D. Student, College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Supervised by Wei Yang Bryan Lim.

• 2021.09 - 2025.06, Ph.D. in Cybersecurity, School of Network and Information Security, Xidian University, Supervised by Fan Kai.

• 2018.09 - 2021.06, Master of Cybersecurity, School of Cybersecurity and Computer Science, Hebei University, Supervised by Yang Xiaohui.

• 2014.09 - 2018.06, Bachelor of Network Engineering, School of Cybersecurity and Computer Science, Hebei University.

💻 Internships

• 2022.10 - 2023.10, Cryptographic engineering intern, zkMe Technology Limited, China.
• 2020.03 - 2021.06, CTF training instructor, China.
• 2018.06 - 2018.08, Security engineering intern, Dunan Technology Limited, China.