Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ph.D.,


Palo Alto Networks
3000 Tannery Way, Santa Clara, CA 95054
[Email] hongdaljz AT gmail DOT com

About Me

I am a Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science under the direction of Professor Hongxin Hu and M.S. in Computer Science from Clemson University, and M.E. in Software engineering from University of Science and Technology of China. I like developing cool network security functions such as network firewalls and intrusion detection systems. I am also entusiatic about researching new security solutions to protecting new trending network applications, such as Software-defined networks (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and Internet of Things (IoT). Please check out my publications if you want to know more about my ideas about network security. My Google Scholar.

Publications

  1. xNIDS: Explaining Deep Learning-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems for Active Intrusion Responses.

    Feng Wei, Hongda Li, Ziming Zhao, and Hongxin Hu

    In Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2023), Anaheim, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2023.

    [PDF]

  2. SysFlow: Toward a Programmable Zero Trust Framework for System Security.

    Sungmin Hong, Lei Xu, Jianwei Huang, Hongda Li, Hongxin HU, and Guofei Gu

    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 18, 2794-2809, 2023.

  3. Understanding and Detecting Remote Infection on Linux-based IoT Devices.

    Hongda Li, Qiqing Huang, Fei Ding, Hongxin Hu, Long Cheng, Guofei Gu, and Ziming Zhao

    In Proceedings of 17th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2022), Nagasaki, Japan and virtual, May 20 - Juen 2, 2022.

    Best Paper Award

    Acceptance rate: 85/463 = 18.4%

    [PDF] [Slides]

  4. DeepPower: Non-intrusive Detection of IoT Malware using Power Side Channels.

    Fei Ding, Hongda Li, Feng Luo, Hongxin Hu, Long Cheng, Hai Xiao and Rong Ge

    In Proceedings of 15th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2020), Taipei, Taiwan, June 1-5, 2020.

    [PDF]

  5. S-Blocks: Lightweight and Trusted Virtual Security Function with SGX.

    Juan Wang, Shirong Hao, Hongxin Hu, Hongda Li, Wenhui Zhang, Jun Xu and Peng Liu

    IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2020.

  6. Teaching SDN Security Using Hands-on Labs in CloudLab.

    Xiaohong Yuan, Zhipeng Liu, Younghee Park, Hongxin Hu, Hongda Li

    Journal of The Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education. Vol. 7. No. 1. 2020.

  7. Towards a Reliable Firewall for Software-Defined Networks.

    Hongxin Hu, Wonkyu Han, Sukwha Kyung, Juan Wang, Gail-Joon Ahn, Ziming Zhao, and Hongda Li

    Computers & Security (COSE), Elsevier, 2019

  8. When NFV Meets ANN: Rethinking Elastic Scaling for ANN-based NFs.

    Menghao Zhang, Jiasong Bai, Guanyu Li, Zili Meng, Hongda Li, Hongxin Hu, Mingwei Xu.

    IEEE ICNP 2019 HDR-Nets Workshop, Chicago, IL, USA, October 7, 2019

    [PDF]

  9. Enabling Dynamic Network Access Control with Anomaly-based IDS and SDN.

    Hongda Li*, Feng Wei*, and Hongxin Hu.

    In Proceedings of ACM International Workshop on Security in Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV Security 2019), Richardson, Texas, USA, March 27, 2019. (*co-first auhtor)

    [PDF] [Slides]

  10. vNIDS: Towards Elastic Security with Safe and Efficient Virtualization of Network Intrusion Detection Systems.

    Hongda Li, Hongxin Hu, Guofei Gu, Gail-Joon Ahn and Fuqiang Zhang.

    In Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2018), Toronto, Canada, October 15-19, 2018.

    Acceptance rate: 134/809 = 16.6%

    Featured on Clemson CECAS News

    [PDF] [Slides]

  11. Towards Efficient Traffic Monitoring for Science DMZ with Side-channel Based Traffic Winnowing.

    Hongda Li, Fuqiang Zhang, Lu Yu, Jon Oakley, Hongxin Hu and Richard Brooks.

    In Proceedings of ACM International Workshop on Security in Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV Security 2018), Tempe, Arizona, USA, March 21, 2018.

    [PDF] [Slides]

  12. Enhancing Security Education Through Designing SDN Security Labs in CloudLab.

    Younghee Park, Hongxin Hu, Xiaohong Yuan and Hongda Li.

    In Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2018), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, February 21-24, 2018.

    Best Paper Award

    [PDF]

  13. Cybersecurity Attacks in Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) Applications and Their Prevention.

    Mhafuzul Islam, Mashrur Chowdhury, Hongda Li and Hongxin Hu.

    Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), 2018.

    [PDF]
  14. Towards Effective Virtualization of Intrusion Detection Systems.

    Nuyun Zhang, Hongda Li, Hongxin Hu and Younghee Park.

    In Proceedings of ACM International Workshop on Security in Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV Security 2017), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, March 24, 2017.

    [PDF] [Slides]

  15. On the Safety and Efficiency of Virtual Firewall Elasticity Control.

    Hongda Li*, Juan Deng*, Hongxin Hu, Kuang-Ching Wang, Gail-Joon Ahn, Ziming Zhao and Wonkyu Han.

    In Proceedings of the 24th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2017), San Diego, CA, USA, February 26 - March 1, 2017 (*co-first author)

    Acceptance rate: 68/423 = 16.1%

    Featured on Clemson CECAS News

    [PDF] [Slides] [Video] [Poster]

  16. Performance Considerations of Network Functions Virtualization using Containers.

    Jason Anderson, Udit Agarwal, Hongda Li, Hongxin Hu, Craig Lowery and Amy Apon.

    In Proceedings of International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2016), Kauai, Hawaii, USA, February 15-18, 2016.

    [PDF]

  17. VNGuard: An NFV/SDN Combination Framework for Provisioning and Managing Virtual Firewalls.

    Juan Deng, Hongxin Hu, Hongda Li, Zhizhong Pan, Kuang-Ching Wang, Gail-Joon Ahn, Jun Bi and Younghee Park.

    In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN 2015), San Francisco, USA, November 18-21, 2015.

    [PDF]

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Journal Paper Reviewer:

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Computers & Security
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • International Journal of Information Security
  • China Communications
  • Computer Standards & Interfaces
  • MDPI Electronics
  • MDPI Network
  • MDPI Applied Sciences

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