News
[Mar. 2025] : Our team is ranked #7 for BFS, and #4 for SSSP (out of 46 registrations) in 2025 PPoPP Fast Code Programming Challenge! Congrats to Chaoqun and Aiden!
[Feb. 2025] : We successfully organized a workshop in OurCS@DFW on Hands-on Introduction to Graph Neural Networks, where multiple high school and undergraduate students attended it.
[Jan. 2025] : Our BINGO paper of Random Walk on Dynamic Graphs is accepted to EuroSys ‘25. Congrast to Pinhuan, Dr. Hang Liu, and other collaborators!
[Dec. 2024] : Dr. Ji is awarded the Best Editor Award of 2024 for IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society (OJCOMS).
[Nov. 2024] : Dr. Ji is invited to serve as a Program Committee Track Chair (Algorithm and Software Track) of the IEEE Cloud Summit 2025.
[Nov. 2024] : At SC 2024, Dr. Ji is invited to give a talk on “Advancing Graph AI: Tackling Efficiency, Application, and Explainability” at the MLG-HPCE Workshop.
[Oct. 2024] : Dr. Ji is invited to give a talk on Graph AI at the Biology Seminar in Texas Christian University (TCU).
[Sep. 2024] : Our paper on microservice security is accepted to ACSAC ‘24. Congrats to the team!
[Aug. 2024] : Our proposal on An Accelerated Computation Architecture for State Transition Representation and Applications is funded by NSF SHF Core (Small) Program (Lead PI). Thanks NSF!
[Aug. 2024] : Our lab has moved to the University of Texas at Arlington! I will miss the great days and people at UNT!
[Jul. 2024] : Our paper on malware detection with graph AI technique is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). Congrats to the team!
[Jun. 2024] : Our proposal on Secure Machine Learning Inference in IoT-driven Analytical Scientific Infrastructure is funded by NSF CICI program (Co-PI, PI: Prof. Ruimin Sun). Thanks NSF!
[May. 2024] : Congrats to Victor and Donavon (TAMS students) for starting their undergraduate study at UT Austin and Purdue, respectively! Best wishes!
[Mar. 2024] : We have been issued a U.S. Patent titled “Binary Code Similarity Detection System”.
[Feb. 2024] : Our paper on computing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on GPUs is accepted to ACM TOPC. Congrats to the team!
[Jan. 2024] : Our paper on smart home IoT system security collaborating with Dr. Xiaojiang Du has been accepted to ICC 2024. Congrats to the team!
[Dec. 2023] : Our paper on protecting workers’ location privacy via Geo-obfuscation is accepted to EDBT '24. Congrats to Dr. Qiu and Sourabh!
[Sep. 2023] : Welcome Dr. Xing Gao from University of Delaware to give us a talk and visit our lab!
[Sep. 2023] : Our paper on graph-based binary code similarity detection, HermesSim, is accepted to USENIX Security '24. Congrats to Haojie and other collaborators!
[Aug. 2023] : Our proposal on Efficient Graph Neural Network is funded by NSF SHF (total: $600k, my role: lead PI). Thanks NSF!
[Aug. 2023] : Our challenge paper on understanding nationwide power outage and restoration is accepted to the SMC Data Challenge '23. Congrats to Yasmeen, Isabelle, and our collaborators! We won the Best Poster Award!
[Aug. 2023] : Our challenge paper on visualizing HPC power and thermal dynamics is accepted to the SMC Data Challenge '23. Congrats to Joe and our collaborators!
[Aug. 2023] : Dr. Ji is invited to serve as an Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS).
[Jul. 2023] : Our proposal on Container Security in HPC is funded by NSF CICI program (total: $600k, my role: PI). Thanks NSF!
[Jun. 2023] : Our lab’s Ph.D. student Wang Feng’s first paper is accepted to SC '23! Congrats to Wang and our collaborators! Congrats to Wang for winning IEEE TCHPC Travel Award ($1,325)!
[Jun. 2023] : Our Tango paper is accepted to SC '23! Congrats to Shiyang and our collaborators!
[May. 2023] : Congrats to Lillian and Avik (TAMS students) for starting their undergraduate studies at MIT and UT Austin, respectively! Best wishes!
[Apr. 2023] : Our paper on malware detection with graph AI technique is accepted to ISSTA '23. Congrats to Jiancong and our collaborators!
[Feb. 2023] : Dr. Ji is invited to serve as PC for HPDC '23, Information Security Conference (ISC '23), Doctoral Showcase Poster at SC '23, Learning on Graphs Conference (LoG) '23, and Machine Learning with Graphs in HPC Environments (MLG-HPCE) '23.
[Nov. 2022] : Welcome Qianjun Wei to join our lab as a visiting Ph.D. student.
[Oct. 2022] : Dr. Chen Luo from Amazon is invited to give us a talk and visit our lab!
[Oct. 2022] : Congrats to Wang for being selected as a volunteer for SC 2022!
[Sep. 2022] : Our project on using TVM for sparse deep neural network is accepted as a poster for SC 2022. Congrats to Lillian and Avik!
[Aug. 2022] : Dr. Ji is invited to serve as reviewer for the inaugural Learning on Graphs Conference (LoG) '22.
[June 2022] : Our paper on computing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on GPUs is accepted to HPDC '22. Congrats to Qiang and our collaborators!
[May 2022] : The extended version of iSpan on GPU is accepted to ACM TOPC.
[Feb. 2022] : Our paper on explaining GNN-based code analysis, Illuminati, is accepted to EuroS&P '22.
[Jan. 2022] : Our Nested Graph Neural Network (NestedGNN) paper is accepted to IEEE ICC '22.
[Jan. 2022] : Welcome Wang Feng to join our lab as a Ph.D. student.
[Nov. 2021] : Dr. George M. Slota from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is invited to give us a talk and visit our lab!
[Oct. 2021] : My algorithm class (CSCE-5150) received Google Cloud Education Credits. Thanks Google!
[Sep. 2021] : Our lab received Google Cloud Research Credits Award. Thanks Google!
[Aug. 2021] : Dr. Ji started working as an assistant professor at the University of North Texas.
[June 2021] : Our paper on analyzing exposed Android Init routines, DEFInit, is accepted to USENIX Security’21.
[Mar. 2021] : Our paper on identifying the compilation provenance of binary code, Vestige, is accepted to ACNS’21.
[Feb. 2021] : Our paper on detecting unknown advanced persistent threat (APT) is accepted to Computer Networks.
[Oct. 2020] : Our paper on binary code vulnerability analysis with graph neural network, BugGraph, is accepted to AsiaCCS’21.
[Oct. 2020] : Our paper on large scale small graphs computation with GPUs, SwarmGraph, is accepted to HPCC’20.
[June 2020] : I started working as a senior intern at Kryptowire (a company that specializes in Mobile Security and Code Analysis) mentored by Dr. Mohamed Elsabagh.
[May 2020] : Our paper on lateral movement detection with unsupervised graph learning is accepted to RAID’20.
[Mar. 2020] : Our paper on graph connectivity computation framework, Aquila, is accepted to HPDC’20.
[June 2018] : Our paper on strongly connected component detection, iSpan, is accepted to SC’18.