Cong Wu

1.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
71 papers, 774 citations indexed

About

Cong Wu is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Cong Wu has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 774 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 16 papers in Information Systems and 11 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Cong Wu's work include User Authentication and Security Systems (7 papers), Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (6 papers) and Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (5 papers). Cong Wu is often cited by papers focused on User Authentication and Security Systems (7 papers), Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (6 papers) and Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (5 papers). Cong Wu collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Cong Wu's co-authors include Kun He, Ruiying Du, Jing Chen, Wu Congxin, Ziming Zhao, Ren‐Xi Zhuo, Si‐Xue Cheng, Yang Liu, Boya Liu and Yang Xiang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Controlled Release and IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.

In The Last Decade

Cong Wu

62 papers receiving 752 citations

Hit Papers

PonziGuard: Detecting Ponzi Schemes on Ethereum with Cont... 2024 2026 2025 2024 2025 10 20 30
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. PonziGuard: Detecting Ponzi Schemes on Ethereum with Contract Runtime Behavior Graph (CRBG)
    2024 35 citations Jing Chen, Kun He et al. profile →
  2. Vulseye: Detect Smart Contract Vulnerabilities via Stateful Directed Graybox Fuzzing
    2025 22 citations Jing Chen, Cong Wu et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cong Wu China 18 131 124 104 102 99 71 774
Rohit Kothari India 21 273 2.1× 115 0.9× 30 0.3× 115 1.1× 79 0.8× 65 1.3k
Xia Yin China 20 704 5.4× 364 2.9× 51 0.5× 151 1.5× 115 1.2× 115 1.9k
Song Sun China 8 119 0.9× 44 0.4× 95 0.9× 29 0.3× 31 0.3× 14 760
Hsi-Chieh Lee Taiwan 11 192 1.5× 104 0.8× 20 0.2× 76 0.7× 11 0.1× 36 563
Taisuke Sato Japan 17 764 5.8× 65 0.5× 25 0.2× 82 0.8× 75 0.8× 95 1.1k
Kang Li China 15 158 1.2× 91 0.7× 16 0.2× 94 0.9× 60 0.6× 97 754
Qihang Lin United States 19 371 2.8× 189 1.5× 6 0.1× 68 0.7× 23 0.2× 65 969
Sunil Gupta Australia 18 286 2.2× 187 1.5× 27 0.3× 112 1.1× 25 0.3× 70 1.2k
Shu Gao China 13 166 1.3× 102 0.8× 16 0.2× 123 1.2× 81 0.8× 62 674

Countries citing papers authored by Cong Wu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cong Wu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Cong Wu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Cong Wu. The network helps show where Cong Wu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cong Wu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cong Wu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cong Wu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Cong Wu. Cong Wu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sun, Jianfei, Guowen Xu, Yang Yang, et al.. (2025). Forward-Secure Hierarchical Delegable Signature for Smart Homes. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 20. 3950–3965. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Cong, et al.. (2025). High Accuracy and Presentation Attack Resistant Hand Authentication via Acoustic Sensing for Commodity Mobile Devices. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 22(5). 5231–5247. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Jing, Kun He, Qiong Deng, et al.. (2025). HeadSonic: Usable Bone Conduction Earphone Authentication via Head-Conducted Sounds. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 24(9). 7914–7928.
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Zhang, Wenyi, Xiaojun Jia, Yihao Huang, et al.. (2025). PATFinger: Prompt-Adapted Transferable Fingerprinting against Unauthorized Multimodal Dataset Usage. 403–413.
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Xu, Guowen, et al.. (2025). Unveiling the Superiority of Unsupervised Learning on GPU Cryptojacking Detection: Practice on Magnetic Side Channel-Based Mechanism. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 20. 4874–4889. 2 indexed citations
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Wu, Cong, Jing Chen, Zijun Zhang, et al.. (2025). Privacy-Preserving Universal Adversarial Defense for Black-Box Models. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 20. 11503–11515.
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Chen, Jing, Cong Wu, Kun He, et al.. (2025). Vulseye: Detect Smart Contract Vulnerabilities via Stateful Directed Graybox Fuzzing. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 20. 2157–2170. 22 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chen, Jing, Kun He, Ruiying Du, et al.. (2024). DynaShard: Secure and Adaptive Blockchain Sharding Protocol With Hybrid Consensus and Dynamic Shard Management. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(5). 5462–5475. 8 indexed citations
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Chen, Jing, et al.. (2024). HCR-Auth: Reliable Bone Conduction Earphone Authentication with Head Contact Response. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. 8(4). 1–27. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Cong, Jing Chen, Ziming Zhao, et al.. (2024). TokenScout: Early Detection of Ethereum Scam Tokens via Temporal Graph Learning. 956–970. 13 indexed citations
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Chen, Jing, Kun He, Yueming Wu, et al.. (2024). PonziGuard: Detecting Ponzi Schemes on Ethereum with Contract Runtime Behavior Graph (CRBG). 1–12. 35 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Cong, Jing Chen, Simeng Zhu, et al.. (2024). WAFBooster: Automatic Boosting of WAF Security Against Mutated Malicious Payloads. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 22(2). 1118–1131. 18 indexed citations
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Wu, Cong, Jing Chen, Kun He, et al.. (2024). Rethinking Membership Inference Attacks Against Transfer Learning. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 19. 6441–6454. 36 indexed citations
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Chen, Jing, Cong Wu, Kun He, et al.. (2024). Towards Effective Detection of Ponzi Schemes on Ethereum with Contract Runtime Behavior Graph. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 34(4). 1–32. 17 indexed citations
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Chen, Jing, et al.. (2023). WiFiLeaks: Exposing Stationary Human Presence Through a Wall With Commodity Mobile Devices. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 23(6). 6997–7011. 4 indexed citations
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Chen, Jing, et al.. (2023). LocCams. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. 7(4). 1–24. 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Jing, et al.. (2023). Efficient Privacy-Preserving Inference Outsourcing for Convolutional Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 18. 4815–4829. 23 indexed citations
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Wu, Cong, Kun He, Jing Chen, Ruiying Du, & Yang Xiang. (2020). CaIAuth: Context-Aware Implicit Authentication When the Screen Is Awake. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 7(12). 11420–11430. 16 indexed citations
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Wu, Cong, et al.. (2020). International Practice of Open Research Data and Its Enlightenment to China. Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version). 35(1). 11–18. 2 indexed citations
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