About me

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Bio

My name is Ming Xu（徐铭). I am a research fellow in National University of Singapore. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Fudan University, China, in June 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Weili Han. I am very fortunate to work closely with Dr. Xinyi Zhang during my PhD studies.

I am interested in pursuing the beautiful convergence of chaotic data into informed insights in the usable security and privacy aspects. For example, the chaotic data consists of textual passwords and security event logs:

• Patterns: Textual passwords have their specifically-used patterns like ``p@ssw0rd4ever’’ CCS’21, TIFS’20.
• Understandings: Patterns are useful in improving real-world guessing USENIX SEC’23.
• Applications: Patterns and understandings can help a more reliable password strength meter. Security event logs can help monitor the anomalities in real time ASE’24.

Recently, I have several opportunities for visiting/master/PhD in NCS-NUS lab especially for LLMs. If you are interested in joining or remotely working with us, feel free to drop an email to me: mingxu@nus.edu.sg

Broader Research Interests

• Web Security
• Textual Password Security
• Cyber Threat Intelligence
• Intrusion Detection