| 2026 | ACL | Privacy Risks of Intermediate Representations: Attribute Inference in Distributed LLM Inference. | Yang Lyu, Jin Cao, Yang Xiao, Zhe Sun, Ben Niu, Fenghua Li, Hui Li |
| 2025 | ACL | An Efficient Task-Oriented Dialogue Policy: Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning Injected by Elite Individuals. | Yangyang Zhao, Ben Niu, Libo Qin, Shihan Wang |
| 2025 | EMNLP | Semantic-Aware Action Space Compression via LLM-DRL Synergy for Efficient Task-oriented Dialogue Policy Exploration. | Yangyang Zhao, Ben Niu, Yuxuan Tan, Shihan Wang, Libo Qin |
| 2025 | GLOBECOM | Non-interactive Triangle Counting with Local Differential Privacy. | Jiayu Li, Pengbiao Wang, Xiaoguang Li, Yuxiang Wang, Jin Cao, Ben Niu |
| 2025 | GLOBECOM | Privacy Assessment of Text-to-Image Models via Enhanced Membership Inference Attack. | Ben Niu, Jiaqi Liu, Likun Zhang, Yiming Jiang, Yuqiao Hou, Jin Cao |
| 2025 | ICASSP | An Abnormal Audio Generation Method for Fault Diagnosis of Power Transformers. | Ben Niu, Yangjie Wei, Ke Zhang, Zhuoran Yu |
| 2025 | ICONIP | VISE: Velocity-Guided Interpolant Diffusion for Efficient Speech Enhancement. | Gang Yang, Yangjie Wei, Ben Niu, Yuqiao Wang, Shengling Yu |
| 2025 | Interspeech | StarGAN-Aug: A Cross-domain Fault Audio Generation Method for High-performance Fault Diagnosis of Power Transformers. | Ben Niu, Yangjie Wei, Gang Yang, Yuqiao Wang, Shengling Yu |
| 2025 | KDD | Training Data Attribution: Was Your Model Secretly Trained On Data Created By Mine? | Likun Zhang, Hao Wu, Lingcui Zhang, Fengyuan Xu, Jin Cao, Fenghua Li, Ben Niu |
| 2025 | TrustCom | FlexiGrain: A Flexible and Fine-Grained Privacy Control Framework for Dynamic Social Networks. | Ben Niu, Fanyu Gan, Jinyu Peng, Qian Yang, Jin Cao |
| 2025 | TrustCom | SPPF: A Speech-Semantic and Privacy-Preserving Framework with Prompt-Tuning Large Language Models. | Ben Niu, Tiantian Kong, Yuqiao Hou, Bohao Li, Guoli Zhao |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Bootstrapped Policy Learning for Task-oriented Dialogue through Goal Shaping. | Yangyang Zhao, Ben Niu, Mehdi Dastani, Shihan Wang |
| 2024 | HPCC | Easy-Sharing: A Personalized Privacy Diffusion Strategy Generation Method Based on Risk-Return Trade-Off. | Ben Niu, Qifan Yang, Likun Zhang, Jin Cao, Qian Yang |
| 2024 | ICASSP | Interpreting Memorization in Deep Learning from Data Distribution. | Likun Zhang, Jingwei Sun, Shoukun Guo, Fenghua Li, Jin Cao, Ben Niu |
| 2024 | ICIS | Predicting Consultation Success in Online Health Platforms Using Dynamic Knowledge Graphs and Multimodal Data Fusion. | Wenli Zhang, Shuang Geng, Jiaheng Xie, Gemin Liang, Ben Niu, Sudha Ram |
| 2023 | FAST | Multi-view Feature-based SSD Failure Prediction: What, When, and Why. | Yuqi Zhang, Wenwen Hao, Ben Niu, Kangkang Liu, Shuyang Wang, Na Liu, Xing He, Yongwong Gwon, Chankyu Koh |
| 2023 | GLOBECOM | A Sensitivity-aware and Block-wise Pruning Method for Privacy-preserving Federated Learning. | Ben Niu, Xindi Wang, Likun Zhang, Shoukun Guo, Jin Cao, Fenghua Li |
| 2023 | WACV | Interpreting Disparate Privacy-Utility Tradeoff in Adversarial Learning via Attribute Correlation. | Likun Zhang, Yahong Chen, Ang Li, Binghui Wang, Yiran Chen, Fenghua Li, Jin Cao, Ben Niu |
| 2022 | INFOCOM | A blockchain-based Privacy-Preserving Framework for Cross-Social Network Photo Sharing. | Ming Zhang, Zhe Sun, Hui Li, Ben Niu, Fenghua Li, Yuhang Xie, Chunhao Zheng |
| 2022 | UIC | SmartCircles: A Benefit-Evaluation-Based Privacy Policy Recommender for Customized Photo Sharing. | Haiyang Luo, Zhe Sun, Yunqing Sun, Ang Li, Binghui Wang, Jin Cao, Ben Niu |
| 2021 | CCS | HyperFuzzer: An Efficient Hybrid Fuzzer for Virtual CPUs. | Xinyang Ge, Ben Niu, Robert Brotzman, Yaohui Chen, HyungSeok Han, Patrice Godefroid, Weidong Cui |
| 2021 | INFOCOM | AdaPDP: Adaptive Personalized Differential Privacy. | Ben Niu, Yahong Chen, Boyang Wang, Zhibo Wang, Fenghua Li, Jin Cao |
| 2021 | TrustCom | MazeRunner: Evaluating the Attack Surface of Control-Flow Integrity Policies. | Dongrui Zeng, Ben Niu, Gang Tan |
| 2020 | CEC | Simplified Bacterial Foraging optimization Based on Reverse Chemotaxis Strategy. | Jun Yu, Ben Niu |
| 2020 | ECCV | Single Image Super-Resolution via a Holistic Attention Network. | Ben Niu, Weilei Wen, Wenqi Ren, Xiangde Zhang, Lianping Yang, Shuzhen Wang, Kaihao Zhang, Xiaochun Cao, Haifeng Shen |
| 2020 | GLOBECOM | A Framework to Preserve User Privacy for Machine Learning as a Service. | Ben Niu, Likun Zhang, Yahong Chen, Ang Li, Wei Du, Jin Cao, Fenghua Li |
| 2020 | MOBIHOC | Towards compression-resistant privacy-preserving photo sharing on social networks. | Zhibo Wang, Hengchang Guo, Zhifei Zhang, Mengkai Song, Siyan Zheng, Qian Wang, Ben Niu |
| 2020 | WCNC | A Secure Authentication Scheme for Remote Diagnosis and Maintenance in Internet of Vehicles. | Ruhui Ma, Jin Cao, Dengguo Feng, Hui Li, Ben Niu, Fenghua Li, Lihua Yin |
| 2020 | WCNC | Utility-aware Exponential Mechanism for Personalized Differential Privacy. | Ben Niu, Yahong Chen, Boyang Wang, Jin Cao, Fenghua Li |
| 2020 | USENIX | Reverse Debugging of Kernel Failures in Deployed Systems. | Xinyang Ge, Ben Niu, Weidong Cui |
| 2020 | SecureComm | SmartSwitch: Efficient Traffic Obfuscation Against Stream Fingerprinting. | Haipeng Li, Ben Niu, Boyang Wang |
| 2019 | CEC | When Cooperative Co-Evolution Meets Coordinate Descent: Theoretically Deeper Understandings and Practically Better Implementations. | Qiqi Duan, Chang Shao, Liang Qu, Yuhui Shi, Ben Niu |
| 2019 | CEC | Nurse scheduling problem based on hydrologic cycle optimization. | Qianying Liu, Ben Niu, Jun Wang, Hong Wang, Li Li |
| 2019 | INFOCOM | HideMe: Privacy-Preserving Photo Sharing on Social Networks. | Fenghua Li, Zhe Sun, Ang Li, Ben Niu, Hui Li, Guohong Cao |
| 2019 | WCNC | Quantum-Resistance Authentication and Data Transmission Scheme for NB-IoT in 3GPP 5G Networks. | Pu Yu, Jin Cao, Maode Ma, Hui Li, Ben Niu, Fenghua Li |
| 2018 | GLOBECOM | Achieving Personalized k-Anonymity against Long-Term Observation in Location-Based Services. | Fenghua Li, Yahong Chen, Ben Niu, Yuanyuan He, Kui Geng, Jin Cao |
| 2018 | OSDI | REPT: Reverse Debugging of Failures in Deployed Software. | Weidong Cui, Xinyang Ge, Baris Kasikci, Ben Niu, Upamanyu Sharma, Ruoyu Wang, Insu Yun |
| 2018 | WiOpt | Privacy-preserving ride clustering for customized-bus sharing: A fog-assisted approach. | Yuanyuan He, Jianbing Ni, Ben Niu, Fenghua Li, Xuemin Sherman Shen |
| 2017 | GLOBECOM | TrackU: Exploiting User's Mobility Behavior via WiFi List. | Fenghua Li, Xinyu Wang, Ben Niu, Hui Li, Chao Li, Lihua Chen |
| 2017 | SOSP | Lazy Diagnosis of In-Production Concurrency Bugs. | Baris Kasikci, Weidong Cui, Xinyang Ge, Ben Niu |
| 2016 | CEC | Improving generalisation of genetic programming for high-dimensional symbolic regression with feature selection. | Qi Chen, Bing Xue, Ben Niu, Mengjie Zhang |
| 2016 | CEC | An superior tracking artificial bee colony for global optimization problems. | Xianghua Chu, Guozheng Hu, Ben Niu, Li Li, Zhengrong Chu |
| 2016 | CEC | Bacterial-inspired feature selection algorithm and its application in fault diagnosis of complex structures. | Hong Wang, Xing Jian Jing, Ben Niu |
| 2016 | WCNC | A practical group matching scheme for privacy-aware users in mobile social networks. | Fenghua Li, Hanyi Wang, Ben Niu, Yuanyuan He, Jiafeng Hua, Hui Li |
| 2016 | WCNC | Time obfuscation-based privacy-preserving scheme for Location-Based Services. | Fenghua Li, Sheng Wan, Ben Niu, Hui Li, Yuanyuan He |
| 2016 | WCNC | Time obfuscation-based privacy-preserving scheme for location-based services. | Fenghua Li, Sheng Wan, Ben Niu, Hui Li, Yuanyuan He |
| 2015 | CCS | Per-Input Control-Flow Integrity. | Ben Niu, Gang Tan |
| 2015 | INFOCOM | Enhancing privacy through caching in location-based services. | Ben Niu, Qinghua Li, Xiaoyan Zhu, Guohong Cao, Hui Li |
| 2015 | IECON | H∞ control of stochastic switched nonlinear systems with average dwell time. | Yanli Liu, Xuebo Yang, Ben Niu, Yang Tang, Okyay Kaynak |
| 2015 | TrustCom | Achieving Lightweight and Secure Access Control in Multi-authority Cloud. | Yanchao Wang, Fenghua Li, Jinbo Xiong, Ben Niu, Fangfang Shan |
| 2014 | CCS | RockJIT: Securing Just-In-Time Compilation Using Modular Control-Flow Integrity. | Ben Niu, Gang Tan |
| 2014 | CEC | Binary bacterial foraging optimization for 0/1 knapsack problem. | Ben Niu, Ying Bi |
| 2014 | CEC | Particle swarm optimization for Integrated Yard Truck Scheduling and Storage Allocation Problem. | Ben Niu, Ting Xie, Qiqi Duan, Lijing Tan |
| 2014 | CIS | Improved Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm with Information Communication Mechanism. | Ben Niu, Jing Liu, Ying Bi, Ting Xie, Lijing Tan |
| 2014 | ICCCN | A fine-grained spatial cloaking scheme for privacy-aware users in Location-Based Services. | Ben Niu, Qinghua Li, Xiaoyan Zhu, Hui Li |
| 2014 | INFOCOM | Achieving k-anonymity in privacy-aware location-based services. | Ben Niu, Qinghua Li, Xiaoyan Zhu, Guohong Cao, Hui Li |
| 2014 | MASS | EPcloak: An Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Spatial Cloaking Scheme for LBSs. | Ben Niu, Xiaoyan Zhu, Weihao Li, Hui Li |
| 2014 | PLDI | Modular control-flow integrity. | Ben Niu, Gang Tan |
| 2014 | SecureComm | Are You Really My Friend? Exactly Spatiotemporal Matching Scheme in Privacy-Aware Mobile Social Networks. | Ben Niu, Xiuguang Li, Xiaoyan Zhu, Xiaoqing Li, Hui Li |
| 2013 | CCS | Efficient user-space information flow control. | Ben Niu, Gang Tan |
| 2013 | CCS | Monitor integrity protection with space efficiency and separate compilation. | Ben Niu, Gang Tan |
| 2013 | GLOBECOM | Weight-aware private matching scheme for Proximity-based Mobile Social Networks. | Ben Niu, Xiaoyan Zhu, Jie Liu, Zan Li, Hui Li |
| 2013 | GLOBECOM | EPS: Encounter-Based Privacy-Preserving Scheme for Location-Based Services. | Ben Niu, Xiaoyan Zhu, Xiaosan Lei, Weidong Zhang, Hui Li |
| 2013 | GLOBECOM | MobiCache: When k-anonymity meets cache. | Xiaoyan Zhu, Haotian Chi, Ben Niu, Weidong Zhang, Zan Li, Hui Li |
| 2013 | IDEAL | Hybrid Bacterial Foraging Algorithm for Data Clustering. | Ben Niu, Qiqi Duan, Jing J. Liang |
| 2013 | MASS | P-Match: Priority-Aware Friend Discovery for Proximity-Based Mobile Social Networks. | Ben Niu, Xiaoyan Zhu, Tanran Zhang, Haotian Chi, Hui Li |
| 2013 | WCNC | 3PLUS: Privacy-preserving pseudo-location updating system in location-based services. | Ben Niu, Xiaoyan Zhu, Haotian Chi, Hui Li |
| 2013 | WCNC | An ultralightweight and privacy-preserving authentication protocol for mobile RFID systems. | Ben Niu, Xiaoyan Zhu, Hui Li |
| 2012 | CEC | Strategy Adaptative Memetic Crowding differential evolution for multimodal optimization. | Jing J. Liang, Song Tao Ma, Bo-Yang Qu, Ben Niu |
| 2012 | CEC | Elite Multi-Group Differential Evolution. | Jing J. Liang, Xiaobo Mao, Bo-Yang Qu, Ben Niu, Tiejun Chen |
| 2012 | CEC | Dynamic Multi-Swarm Particle Swarm Optimization for Multi-objective optimization problems. | Jing J. Liang, Bo-Yang Qu, Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan, Ben Niu |
| 2012 | CEC | An improved differential evolution for constrained optimization with dynamic constraint-handling mechanism. | Zhihui Li, Zhigang Shang, Jing J. Liang, Ben Niu |
| 2012 | CEC | Control parameters self-adaptation in differential evolution based on intrisic structure information. | Zhigang Shang, Zhihui Li, Jing J. Liang, Ben Niu |
| 2012 | WCNC | Distributed opportunistic medium access control in two-tier femtocell networks. | Ben Niu, Chia-Lin Wu, Marios Kountouris, Yunzhou Li |
| 2011 | CCS | Poster: uPro: a compartmentalization tool supporting fine-grained and flexible security configuration. | Ben Niu, Gang Tan |
| 2011 | CIS | Security Analysis of Some Recent Authentication Protocols for RFID. | Ben Niu, Hui Li, Xiaoyan Zhu, Chao Lv |
| 2011 | CIS | Improved BFO with Adaptive Chemotaxis Step for Global Optimization. | Ben Niu, Hong Wang, Lijing Tan, Li Li |
| 2011 | ICNC | Water content ratio measurement with neural network based on simulated annealing. | Yongjun Zhang, Ben Niu, Xin-li Zhuang, Hua-chen Liao |
| 2010 | CEC | Constrained portfolio selection using multiple swarms. | Ben Niu, Lijing Tan, Bing Xue, Li Li, Yujuan Chai |
| 2010 | ISM | Static Object Tracking in Road Panoramic Videos. | Zhong Zhou, Ben Niu, Chen Ke, Wei Wu |
| 2009 | HIS | A Novel Data Mining Model Based on SOAP in e-Commerce. | Xiaofen Zhang, Ben Niu, Jing Zhao |
| 2009 | ICNC | Application and Comparison of Particle Swarm Optimization and Genetic Algorithm in Strategy Defense Game. | Peng Huo, Simon C. K. Shiu, Haibo Wang, Ben Niu |
| 2009 | ICNC | Case Learning and Indexing in Real Time Strategy Games. | Haibo Wang, Peter H. F. Ng, Ben Niu, Simon C. K. Shiu |
| 2009 | ISM | Expanding Line Search for Panorama Motion Estimation. | Ke Chen, Zhong Zhou, Ben Niu, Jingxiang Chen, Wei Wu |
| 2008 | CIS | Designing Artificial Neural Networks Using MCPSO and BPSO. | Li Li, Ben Niu |
| 2008 | CIS | An Improved MCPSO with Center Communication. | Ben Niu, Li Li |
| 2007 | ICCS | The Design of Blue Emitting Materials Based on Spirosilabifluorene Derivatives. | Miao Sun, Ben Niu, Jingping Zhang |
| 2007 | ICNC | Application of A Multi-Species Optimizer in Ubiquitous Computing for RFID Networks Scheduling. | Hanning Chen, Yunlong Zhu, Kunyuan Hu, Ben Niu |
| 2006 | ICNC | Information Entropy and Interaction Optimization Model Based on Swarm Intelligence. | Xiaoxian He, Yunlong Zhu, Kunyuan Hu, Ben Niu |
| 2006 | ISNN | A Multi-population Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimizer for Neural Network Training. | Ben Niu, Yunlong Zhu, Xiaoxian He |
| 2005 | KES | Using Similarity Measure to Enhance the Robustness of Web Access Prediction Model. | Ben Niu, Simon C. K. Shiu |