Xingliang Yuan

Xingliang Yuan is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, within the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong in 2016. Prior to his appointment at the University of Melbourne in June 2024, Yuan served as a faculty member in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University from 2017 to 2024. He currently holds the position of Course Director for the Master of Cybersecurity program, starting August 2025.

Yuan's research specializes in computer security, focusing on secure networked systems and trustworthy machine learning and artificial intelligence. His interests encompass encrypted data processing systems for scalable oblivious storage and leakage defense in searchable encryption; privacy-preserving machine learning via secure multi-party computation for deep learning and graph neural networks; and trustworthy deep learning addressing inference attacks, machine unlearning, and model stealing defenses. He has authored numerous papers in leading conferences and journals, including 'OblivGNN: Oblivious Inference on Transductive and Inductive Graph Neural Network' (USENIX Security 2024), 'GraphGuard: Detecting and Counteracting Training Data Misuse in Graph Neural Networks' (NDSS 2024), 'Securing Graph Neural Networks in MLaaS: A Comprehensive Realisation of Query-based Integrity Verification' (IEEE S&P 2024), and 'Trustworthy Graph Neural Networks: Aspects, Methods and Trends' (Proceedings of the IEEE 2024). His publications have accumulated over 5,800 citations, with an h-index of 42. Yuan contributes to the field through editorial roles, including Area Editor for Security, Privacy, and Trust in IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, and program committee service for IEEE S&P 2025, NDSS 2025, and USENIX Security 2025. He has co-chaired the Security, Privacy, and Trust track at IEEE ICDCS 2024 and serves as General Co-Chair for RAID 2025. Notable awards include the ARC Future Fellowship (2024) and Excellence in Engagement Award from the School of Computing and Information Systems (2024).

Professional Email: xingliang.yuan@unimelb.edu.au