Lei Cui
Associate Professor
QC Lab, Zhongguancun Lab
cuilei1987@mgail.com
I'm broadly interested in system security, software security, AI-assisted malware analysis and traffic analysis. Drop me an email if you are interested in working with me. Positions including Assistant Professor, PostDoc, Software Engineer, PhD students are open.
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Publications

  • Lei Cui, Yiran Zhu, Junnan Yin, Zhiyu Hao, Wei Wang, Peng Liu, Ziqi Yang, Xiaochun Yun.
    Learning Behavior Inclination of APIs for Malware Classification.
    ISSRE 2024.
  • Lei Cui, Junnan Yin, Jiancong Cui, Yuede Ji, Peng Liu, Zhiyu Hao, Xiaochun Yun.
    API2Vec++: Boosting API Sequence Representation for Malware Detection and Classification.
    TSE 2024.
  • Hao Sun, Lei Cui, Lun Li, Zhenquan Ding, Siyuan Li, Zhiyu Hao, Hongsong Zhu.
    VDTriplet: Vulnerability detection with graph semantics using triplet model.
    Computer&Security 2024.
  • Lei Cui, Jiancong Cui, Yuede Ji, Zhiyu Hao, Lun Li, Zhenquan Ding.
    API2vec: Learning Representations of API Sequences for Malware Detection.
    ISSTA 2023.
  • Lei Cui, Bo Li, Zhiyu Hao, Lun Li, Yongji Liu, Yongnan Li.
    eHotSnap: An efficient and hot distributed snapshots system for virtual machine cluster.
    TPDS 2023.
  • Xiaohui Chen, Lei Cui, Hui Wen, Zhi Li, Hongsong Zhu, Zhiyu Hao, Limin Sun.
    MalAder: Decision-Based Black-Box Attack Against API Sequence Based Malware Detectors.
    DSN 2023.
  • Yiran Zhu, Lei Cui, Zhenquan Ding, Lun Li, Yongji Liu, Zhiyu Hao.
    Black box attack and network intrusion detection using machine learning for malicious traffic.
    Computer&Security 2022.
  • Lei Cui, Jiancong Cui, Zhiyu Hao, Lun Li, Zhenquan Ding, Yongji Liu.
    An empirical study of vulnerability discovery methods over the past ten years.
    Computer&Security 2022.
  • Xiaohui Chen, Zhiyu Hao, Lun Li, Lei Cui, Yiran Zhu, Yongji Liu.
    CruParamer: Learning on Parameter-augmented API Sequences for Malware Detection.
    TIFS 2022.
  • Wei Wang, Zhiyu Hao, Lei Cui.
    ClusterRR: A Record and Replay Framework for Virtual Machine Cluster.
    VEE 2022.
  • Qin Si, Lei Cui, Lun Li, Zhenquan Ding, Zhiyu Hao.
    EmuIoTNet: An Emulated IoT Network for Dynamic Analysis.
    ICICS 2021.
  • Hao Sun, Lei Cui, Lun Li, Zhenquan Ding, Jiancong Cui, Peng Liu.
    VDSimilar: Vulnerability Detection based on Code Similarity of Vulnerabilities And Patches.
    Computer&Security 2021.
  • Yuede Ji, Lei Cui.
    Vestige: Identifying Binary Code Provenance for Vulnerability Detection.
    ACNS 2021.
  • Qin Si, Lei Cui, Lun Li, Zhenquan Ding, Zhiyu Hao.
    An Emulated IoT Network Environment for Dynamic Analysis.
    DAC poster 2021.
  • Yuede Ji, Lei Cui.
    BugGraph: Differentiating Source-Binary Code Similarity with Graph Triplet-Loss Network.
    AISACCS 2021.
  • Lei Cui, Zhiyu Hao, Yang Jiao, Haiqiang Fei, Xiaochun Yun.
    VulDetector: Detecting Vulnerabilities using Weighted Feature Graph Comparison.
    TIFS 2020.
  • Wei Wang, Lei Cui, Zhiyu Hao, Haiqiang Fei, Yaqiong Peng.
    pRnR: A Parallel Record-Replay Framework for Virtual Machines.
    ICCD 2020.
  • Zhiyu Hao, Wei Wang, Lei Cui, Xiaochun Yun, Zhenquan Ding.
    iConsnap: An Incremental Continuous Snapshots System for Virtual Machines.
    TSC 2020.
  • Lei Cui, Zhiyu Hao, Dongbin Wang, Yongnan Li.
    Detecting Adversarial Samples Using Heatmap of Neural Networks.
    EDSMLS，AAAI workshop, 2019.
  • Lei Cui, Zhiyu Hao, Lun Li, Xiaochun Yun.
    SnapFiner: A Page-Aware Snapshot System for Virtual Machines.
    TPDS 2018.
  • Bin Shi, Lei Cui, Bo Li, Xudong Liu, Zhiyu Hao, Haiying Shen.
    ShadowMonitor: An Effective In-VM Monitoring Framework with Hardware-Enforced Isolation.
    RAID 2018.
  • Lei Cui, Zhiyu Hao, Yaqiong Peng, Xiaochun Yun.
    Piccolo: A Fast and Efficient Rollback System for Virtual Machine Clusters.
    TPDS 2017.
  • Jing Xu, Lei Cui, Zhiyu Hao, Chonghua Wang.
    SA-PFRS: Semantics-Aware Page Frame Reclamation System in Virtualized Environments.
    ICPADS 2017.
  • Yandong Han, Zhiyu Hao, Lei Cui, Chonghua Wang, Yafei Sang.
    A Hybrid Monitoring Mechanism in Virtualized Environments.
    TrustCom 2016.
  • Lei Cui, Zhiyu Hao, Chonghua Wang, Haiqiang Fei, Zhenquan Ding.
    Piccolo: A Fast and Efficient Rollback System for Virtual Machine Clusters.
    ICPP 2016.
  • Lei Cui, Zhiyu Hao, Lun Li, Haiqiang Fei, Zhenquan Ding, Bo Li, Peng Liu.
    Lightweight Virtual Machine Checkpoint and Rollback for Long-running Application.
    ICA3PP 2015.
  • Chonghua Wang , Xiaochun Yun, Zhiyu Hao, Lei Cui, Yandong Han, Qingxin Zou.
    Exploring Efficient and Robust Virtual Machine Introspection Techniques.
    ICA3PP 2015.
  • Lei Cui, Tianyu Wo, Bo Li, Jianxin Li, Bin Shi, Jinpeng Huai.
    PARS: A Page-Aware Replication System for Efficiently Storing Virtual Machine Snapshots.
    VEE 2015.
  • Jianxin Li, Jieyu Zhao, Yi Li, Lei Cui, Bo Li, Lu Liu, John Panneerselvam.
    iMIG: Toward an Adaptive Live Migration Method for KVM Virtual Machines.
    Computer J 2015.
  • Lei Cui, Jianxin Li, Tianyu Wo, Bo Li, Renyu Yang, Yinglie Cao, Jinpeng Huai.
    HotRestore: A Fast Restore System for Virtual Machine Cluster.
    LISA 2014.
  • Lei Cui, Bo Li.
    SA-PFRA: Semantics-Aware Page Frame Reclamation Algorithm in Virtualized Environments.
    OSDI Diversity Workshop 2014.
  • Jingsheng Zheng, Jianxin Li, Lei Cui, Yangyang Zhang.
    Efficient Live Snapshot for Virtual Machines: A Multi-layer Coordination Approach.
    OSDI Poster 2014.
  • Bin Shi, Bo Li, Lei Cui, Jieyu Zhao, Jianxin Li.
    SyncSnap: Synchronized Live Memory Snapshots of Virtual Machine Networks.
    HPCC 2014.
  • Jianxin Li, Jingsheng Zheng, Lei Cui, Renyu Yang.
    ConSnap: Taking Continuous Snapshots for Running State Protection of Virtual Machines.
    ICPADS 2014.
  • Kun Liu, Tianyu Wo, Lei Cui, Bin Shi, Jie Xu.
    FENet: An SDN-Based Scheme for Virtual Network Management.
    ICPADS 2014.
  • Bin Shi, Bo Li, Lei Cui, Jieyu Zhao, Jianxin Li.
    SyncSnap: Synchronized Live Memory Snapshots of Virtual Machine Networks.
    HPCC 2014.
  • Shengyang Sha, Jianxin Li, Wuyang Ju, Nan Li, Lei Cui, Bo Li.
    SmartKSM: A VMM-based Memory Deduplication Scanner for Virtual Machines.
    SOSP Poster 2013.
  • Lei Cui, Bo Li, Jianxin Li, Yangyang Zhang.
    HotSnap: A Hot Distributed Snapshot System For Virtual Machine Cluster.
    LISA 2013.
  • Lei Cui, Jianxin Li, Bo Li, Jinpeng Huai, Chunming Hu, Tianyu Wo, Hussain Al-Aqrabi, Lu Liu.
    VMScatter: Migrate Virtual Machines to Many Hosts.
    VEE 2013.
  • Jianxin Li, Hanqing Liu, Lei Cui, Bo Li, Tianyu Wo.
    iROW: An Efficient Live Snapshot System for Virtual Machine Disk.
    ICPADS 2012.[
  • Bo Li, Lei Cui, Jianxin Li.
    HotSnap: A Hot Distributed Snapshot System For Virtual Machine Network.
    DSN poster 2011.