Portrait of Weiheng Wu

Weiheng Wu

whwu [at] smu.edu.sg

About Me

Hi, my name is Weiheng Wu (吴伟恒). I received my M.S. degree in Cyberspace Security from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). My M.S. research focused on intrusion detection systems for network security.

I am currently a Research Engineer working with Prof. David Lo (ACM and IEEE Fellow) at Singapore Management University (SMU). My recent research focuses on security issues in AI and agents.

News

2026.05

Our paper "Cutting the Fuse: Actionable APT Attack Blocking in Provenance-based IDS" was accepted to USENIX Security 2026!

Education & Experience

Singapore Management University (SMU)

Research Engineer with Prof. David Lo

2026 - Present

Alibaba Group

Research Intern

2025 - 2026

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)

M.S. in Cyberspace Security

2023 - 2026

Shenzhen University (SZU)

B.E. in Electronic Information Engineering

2019 - 2023

Selected Publications

* indicates equal contribution.

  1. Cutting the Fuse: Actionable APT Attack Blocking in Provenance-based IDS
    Weiheng Wu, Wei Qiao, Teng Li, Yebo Feng, Zhuo Ma, Jianfeng Ma, and Yang Liu.
    USENIX Security 2026
    35th USENIX Security Symposium
    CCF-A · CORE A*
  2. Sentient: Detecting APTs Via Capturing Indirect Dependencies and Behavioral Logic
    Wenhao Yan, Ning An, Wei Qiao, Weiheng Wu, Zhigang Lu, Bo Jiang, Baoxu Liu, and Junrong Liu.
    AAAI 2026
    40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
    CCF-A · CORE A*
  3. SAURONEYES: Disentangling Voluminous Logs to Unveil Camouflaged Attack Intentions
    Wei Qiao*, Weiheng Wu*, Song Liu, Yebo Feng, Zehui Wang, Junrong Liu, Teng Li, Bo Jiang, Zhigang Lu, and Baoxu Liu.
    IEEE TIFS 2025
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
    CCF-A
  4. Brewing Vodka: Distilling Pure Knowledge for Lightweight Threat Detection in Audit Logs
    Weiheng Wu, Wei Qiao, Wenhao Yan, Bo Jiang, Yuling Liu, Baoxu Liu, Zhigang Lu, and Junrong Liu.
    WWW 2025
    The ACM Web Conference
    CCF-A · CORE A*

Services

External Reviewer 2023 - Present
Journals
IEEE TDSC · IEEE TIFS · IEEE ToN · IEEE TASE · IEEE ToR
Conferences
WWW 2025 & 2026 · AAAI 2026 & 2027 · ICASSP 2026

Research Interests

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Coding Agents — agentic software engineering, code generation, and software development automation
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Vulnerability Detection — Software vulnerability analysis and benchmarking
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AI for Security — Graph neural networks for security, LLM-based security analysis
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Traffic Analysis — Malware traffic detection, encrypted traffic classification