I am currently a research scholar in the Department of Computer Science at Tulane University, working with Prof. Jiang Ming. Prior to this, I obtained my Ph.D. (2025/12) and B.S. (2019/6) degrees from the School of Cyber Science and Engineering at Wuhan University under the supervision of Prof. Guojun Peng.

E-mail: sideliu@outlook.com | sliu35@tulane.edu

📝 Selected Publications

• CCS '25 Analyzing PDFs like Binaries: Adversarially Robust PDF Malware Analysis via Intermediate Representation and Language Model
  Side Liu, Jiang Ming, Guodong Zhou, Xinyi Liu, Jianming Fu, Guojun Peng
  ACM CCS 2025

• USENIX Security '25 VAPD: An Anomaly Detection Model for PDF Malware Forensics with Adversarial Robustness
  Side Liu, Jiang Ming, Yilin Zhou, Jianming Fu, Guojun Peng
  USENIX Security 2025

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2023 - Individual Funding from Qi An Xin’s Cyber Security Innovation Project ($7000)
• 2022 - 2nd at Datacon Data Security Analytics Competition: Cybercrime Analysis Track.
• 2021 - 4th at Datacon Data Security Analytics Competition: Email Security Track.
• 2019 - Outstanding Bachelor’s Degree Thesis of Wuhan University.

🎈 Services

• Conference Reviewer

  • WWW 2025
• Conference Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC)
  • USENIX Secuity 2026

• Conference External Reviewer

  • USENIX Secuity 2026, 2025, 2024
  • PLDI 2026

• Journal Reviewer

  • Cybersecurity

• Teaching Assistant

  • Software Security@Wuhan University, 2019 Fall, 2021 Fall

💻 Internships

• 2024.06 - 2024.08, Tencent Keen Lab, China
  • Security research on intrusion detection and analysis, conducting comprehensive analysis of audit logs using provenance graphs and LLMs.