People

Members of Cai's Lab are listed by academic title or degree status, and then by joining/enrollment year.

Faculty

Tongqing Zhou

Tongqing Zhou 周桐庆

Research Associate  ·  2015
Research Interests:
AIops AI Security
Awards:
  • Hunan Province Excellent Doctoral Dissertation, 2021
  • Second Prize, Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award, 2026
  • Second Prize, Hainan Provincial Science and Technology Award, 2021
  • First Prize, Hunan Computer Federation Science and Technology Award, 2024
  • Huxiang Young Talent Program, 2023
  • Postdoctoral Innovative Talent Support Program of Hunan Province, 2021
  • Second Prize, 8th Youth Innovation Award, National University of Defense Technology, 2024
  • ACM Changsha Rising Star Award, 2021
Xichen Tan

Xichen Tan 谭熙晨

Postdoctoral Researcher  ·  2023
Research Interests:
Video Understanding AI Security
Education:
  • 2014.09–2018.06 B.S., Tsinghua University
  • 2018.09–2020.05 M.S., Duke University
  • 2023.03–2026.06 Ph.D., National University of Defense Technology
Publications:
AAAI × 1 , ACM MM × 1 , ESWA × 1
Awards:
  • Outstanding Student, College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, 2024

Students

Xinyi Wu

Xinyi Wu 吴欣怡

Ph.D. Student  ·  2021
Research Interests:
Multimodal Retrieval Person Re-Identification
Education:
  • 2017.09–2021.06 B.S., National University of Defense Technology
  • 2021.09–Present Combined M.S.–Ph.D. Program, National University of Defense Technology
Publications:
TIP × 1 , AAAI × 1 , ICME × 1
Quan Yan

Quan Yan 晏泉

Ph.D. Student  ·  2021
Research Interests:
Digital Watermarking Privacy Protection
Education:
  • 2017.09–2021.06 B.S., Tianjin Polytechnic University
  • 2021.09–Present Direct Ph.D. Student, National University of Defense Technology
Publications:
TCSVT × 1 , DMKD × 1
Zhangdong Wang

Zhangdong Wang 王章栋

Ph.D. Student  ·  2024
Research Interests:
AI Security Privacy Protection
Education:
  • 2015.09–2019.06 B.S., Central South University of Forestry and Technology
  • 2020.09–2023.06 M.S., Central South University of Forestry and Technology
  • 2024.03–Present Ph.D. Student, National University of Defense Technology
Publications:
TCSVT × 1
Awards:
  • Outstanding Student, College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, 2025
Yonghao Tang

Yonghao Tang 汤永灏

Ph.D. Student  ·  2024
Research Interests:
Data Pricing
Education:
  • 2017.09–2021.06 B.S., University of Science and Technology of China
  • 2021.09–2024.06 M.S., National University of Defense Technology
  • 2024.09–Present Ph.D. Student, National University of Defense Technology
Weishang Wu

Weishang Wu 伍维尚

Ph.D. Student  ·  2024
Research Interests:
Embodied AI Computer Vision
Education:
  • 2017.09–2021.06 B.S., Yanshan University
  • 2021.09–2024.06 M.S., Central South University
  • 2024.09–Present Ph.D. Student, National University of Defense Technology
Publications:
AAAI × 1
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Ling Hu 胡玲

Ph.D. Student  ·  2025
Research Interests:
Network Security Cyberspace Mapping Privacy Protection
Education:
  • 2018.09–2022.06 B.S., National University of Defense Technology
  • 2022.09–2024.12 M.S., National University of Defense Technology
  • 2025.03–Present Ph.D. Student, National University of Defense Technology
Publications:
INFOCOM × 1 , ToN × 1 , TBD × 1 , IWQoS × 1 , Comput. Networks × 1 , ICONIP × 1
Awards:
  • Qiangjun Scholarship, 2020
  • Qiangjun Scholarship, 2024
  • Outstanding Master's Graduate (University Level), 2024
Zhen Huang

Zhen Huang 黄震

Ph.D. Student  ·  2025
Research Interests:
Embodied AI Safety
Education:
  • 2018.09–2022.06 B.S., Southwest Petroleum University
  • 2022.09–2025.06 M.S., University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 2025.09–Present Ph.D. Student, National University of Defense Technology
Publications:
IJCAI × 1
Mengxuan Luo

Mengxuan Luo 罗梦轩

Ph.D. Student  ·  2025
Research Interests:
Embodied AI Safety
Education:
  • 2021.09–2025.06 B.S., College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology
  • 2025.09–Present Ph.D. Student, College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology
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Senxin Wang 王森鑫

Ph.D. Student  ·  2025
Research Interests:
Smart Healthcare
Education:
  • 2021.09–2025.06 B.S., Northeast Forestry University
  • 2025.09–Present Ph.D. Student, College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology
Qianqian Hu

Qianqian Hu 胡芊芊

Ph.D. Student  ·  2026
Research Interests:
Multi-Agent Simulation
Education:
  • 2019.09–2023.06 B.S., Jiangnan University
  • 2023.09–2026.06 M.S., Hunan University
  • 2026.09–Present Ph.D. Student, National University of Defense Technology
Mingming Huang

Mingming Huang 黄明铭

Ph.D. Student  ·  2026
Research Interests:
Embodied AI Safety
Education:
  • 2018.09–2022.07 B.S., Xi'an Jiaotong University
  • 2025.09–2026.06 M.S., The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • 2026.09–Present Ph.D. Student, National University of Defense Technology
Boyu He

Boyu He 何博宇

Master's Student  ·  2024
Research Interests:
3D Reconstruction Style Transfer
Education:
  • 2020.09–2024.06 B.S., Ocean University of China
  • 2024.09–Present M.S. Student, National University of Defense Technology
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Haoran Liu 刘浩然

Master's Student  ·  2025
Research Interests:
AI For Medical

Alumni

Bingnan Hou

Bingnan Hou 侯冰楠

Ph.D. Graduate  ·  2019
Research Interests:
Network Security Cyberspace Mapping
Education:
  • 2006.09–2010.06 B.S., Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  • 2012.09–2015.06 M.S., Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  • 2019.03–2022.12 Ph.D., National University of Defense Technology
Awards:
  • Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, CCF Technical Committee on Internet, 2024
  • Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, ACM Changsha Chapter, 2023
Zhihuang Liu

Zhihuang Liu 刘志煌

Ph.D. Alumnus  ·  2023
Research Interests:
Network Security Privacy Protection LLM Security
Education:
  • 2016.09–2020.06 B.S., Fuzhou University
  • 2020.09–2023.06 M.S., Fuzhou University
  • 2023.09–2026.06 Ph.D., National University of Defense Technology
Publications:
IEEE S&P × 1 , USENIX Security × 1 , WWW (Oral) × 1 , TIFS × 2 , TBD × 1 , IJCAI × 1 , FGCS × 1 , TETC × 1
Awards:
  • ACM SIGCSE China Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2026
  • National Scholarship for Doctoral Students, 2024
  • Outstanding Student, National University of Defense Technology, 2024