National University of Defense Technology
College of Computer

Cai's Lab

Computer Networks Network Security Artificial Intelligence
Cai's Lab

About Us

Cai's Lab is led by Prof. Zhiping Cai at the College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha, China. Prof. Cai visited iQua Lab in 2013, led by Prof. Baochun Li. He received his bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and technology from NUDT in July 1996, April 2002 and December 2005, respectively.

The group's research focuses on computer networks, network security, and artificial intelligence. Prof. Cai has published over 100 academic papers and received multiple best paper awards.

Location: Changsha, Hunan Province, P.R. China
Email: zpcai@nudt.edu.cn

News

2026
[Award] 刘志煌获2026年ACM SIGCSE中国优博奖
2026
[Award] 周桐庆获2026年天津市科技进步二等奖
2026
[USENIX Security] What Users Ask, Policies Miss: Unveiling the Gap Between Community-Expressed Privacy Concerns and LLM Provider Policies
2026
[WWW] Exploring and Exploiting Security Vulnerabilities in Self-Hosted LLM Services
2026
[TIFS] Risk-Aware Privacy Preservation for LLM Inference
2026
[ToN] Comprehensive Measurement of IPv6 Inbound Source Address Validation Deployment via Global Counter Side-Channel

Sponsor

Our research is currently funded by the following project:

  • The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under grant 62072465.

Outstanding Graduates

  • 周桐庆 — 国防科技大学计算机学院助理研究员 — 湖南省优秀博士论文(2021)
  • 赵山 — 合肥工业大学副教授“黄山学者”直聘副教授 — 2021年ACM长沙优秀博士论文奖,2021年ACM SIGWEB优秀博士论文奖
  • 余广 — 国防科技大学气象海洋学院讲师 — 2024年ACM SIGWEB优秀博士论文奖
  • 涂文轩 — 海南大学副教授 — 2024年ACM长沙优秀博士论文奖
  • 崔津华 — 湖南大学助理教授 — 2022年ACM长沙优秀博士论文奖
  • 侯冰楠 — 国防科技大学计算机学院博士后 — 2024年CCF互联网专委优秀博士论文奖,2023年ACM长沙优秀博士论文奖
  • 刘志煌 — 厦门大学助理教授 — 2026年 ACM SIGCSE 中国优博奖
  • 王承禹 — 国防科技大学计算机学院博士生 — 2024年湖南省优秀硕士论文奖
  • 杨涛 — 国防科技大学计算机学院博士生 — 2023年军队优秀硕士论文奖
  • 梁伟轩 — 国防科技大学计算机学院博士生 — 2023年湖南省优秀硕士论文奖
  • 张培 — 国防科技大学计算机学院博士生 — 2022年军队优秀硕士论文奖
  • 李雄略 — 国防科技大学计算机学院博士生 — 2022年湖南省优秀硕士论文奖

Join Us

Graduate students, undergraduate students, postdocs, and research assistants with Computer Science backgrounds are welcome to join our group.

Please contact us at zpcai@nudt.edu.cn.