Bio

Jiahui Hu is a Distinguished Researcher at the School of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Nanchang University. She completed her Ph.D. at Zhejiang University (2021-2025), supervised by Prof. Zhibo Wang. She received the M.S. degree in Cyber Security from Wuhan University, China, in 2019. She received the B.S. degree in Information Security from Wuhan University, China, in 2016. Her research interest focuses on federated learning and privacy.

Research Interests

AI SecurityPrivacy and Security in Federated LearningMobile Crowdsensing.

Published Works

  • SoK: On Gradient Leakage in Federated Learning

    Jiacheng Du, Jiahui Hu, Zhibo Wang, Peng Sun, Neil, Zhenqiang, Gong, Kui Ren, Chun Chen
    The 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
    2025CCF A

  • An Incentive Framework for Task Offloading in Edge Computing Marketplaces under Price Competition

    Liantao Wu, Peng Sun, Zhibo Wang, Xiaoyi Pang, Jiahui Hu, Honglong Chen, Yang Yang
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
    2025CCF A

  • Poisoning Attacks to Knowledge Distillation-based Federated Learning

    Xiaoyi Pang, Zhibo Wang, Defang Liu, Jiahui Hu, Peng Sun, Meng Luo, Rui Ren
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
    2025CCF A

  • Does Differential Privacy Really Protect Federated Learning from Gradient Leakage Attacks?

    Jiahui Hu, Jiacheng Du, Zhibo Wang, Xiaoyi Pang, Yajie Zhou, Peng Sun, Kui Ren
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
    2024CCF A

  • Shield Against Gradient Leakage Attacks: Adaptive Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning

    Jiahui Hu, Zhibo Wang, Yongsheng Shen, Bohan Lin, Peng Sun, Xiaoyi Pang, Jian Liu, Kui Ren
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)
    2023CCF A

Awards & Honors

  • National Scholarship, Ministry of Education (2024)
  • Second Prize of Research and Innovation Scholarship, Wuhan University (2019)
  • Outstanding Graduate, Wuhan University (2019)
  • National Scholarship, Ministry of Education (2018)
  • Luoge Scholarship, Wuhan University (2018)
  • National Scholarship, Ministry of Education (2013)

Academic Services

  • Journal Reviewerat IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • Journal Reviewerat IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • Journal Reviewerat IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • Journal Reviewerat IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • Journal Reviewerat Computer Networks