About Me

Hi, I’m Kun Wang (Ken), currently working at Alibaba. I received my Ph.D. degree in Cyberspace Science and Technology from the College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University in 2026, advised by Dr. Li Lu. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Information Security from Zhejiang University in 2021. My research focuses on Agent Safety, particularly in understanding and mitigating security risks in AI agents and agentic systems.

Publications

MM'26 PDetective: Beyond Shallow Artifacts in Partial Deepfake Speech Detection
Junhao Wang, Kun Wang, Li Lu*, Chong Zhang, Peng Cheng, Zhongjie Ba, Kui Ren. ACM MM 2026

S&P'26 Hijacking Large Audio-Language Models via Context-agnostic and Imperceptible Auditory Prompt Injection
Meng Chen, Kun Wang, Li Lu*, Jiaheng Zhang, Tianwei Zhang. IEEE S&P 2026

S&P'25 From One Stolen Utterance: Assessing the Risks of Voice Cloning in the AIGC Era
Kun Wang, Meng Chen, Li Lu*, Jingwen Feng, Qianniu Chen, Zhongjie Ba, Kui Ren, Chun Chen. IEEE S&P 2025
PDF  Dataset

USS'24 FraudWhistler: A Resilient, Robust and Plug-and-play Adversarial Example Detection Method for Speaker Recognition
Kun Wang, Xiangyu Xu, Li Lu*, Zhongjie Ba, Feng Lin, Kui Ren. USENIX Security 2024
PDF  Code  Presentation  Artifact Appendix
📦 Artifact Badge: Available, Functional, Results Reproduced

arXiv'26 STEP: Detecting Audio Backdoor Attacks via Stability-based Trigger Exposure Profiling
Kun Wang, Meng Chen, Junhao Wang, Yuli Wu, Li Lu*, Chong Zhang, Peng Cheng, Jiaheng Zhang, Kui Ren. arXiv preprint

Education

  • Ph.D. in Cyberspace Science and Technology, College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University
    Sep. 2021 – Jun. 2026, Hangzhou, China
  • B.Eng. in Information Security, College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University
    Sep. 2017 – Jun. 2021, Hangzhou, China

Services

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS) Reviewer
  • USENIX Security Artifact Evaluation Committee Member, 2025
  • Assisted in reviewing submissions for AAAI AAAI, INTERSPEECH, 2025
  • Assisted in reviewing submissions for ACM MM, 2024
  • Assisted in reviewing submissions for IEEE INFOCOM, 2024, 2023
  • Assisted in reviewing submissions for IEEE ICASSP, 2023