Guowen Xu

5.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
132 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Guowen Xu is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Guowen Xu has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 21 papers in Information Systems and 21 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Guowen Xu's work include Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (55 papers), Cryptography and Data Security (55 papers) and Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (21 papers). Guowen Xu is often cited by papers focused on Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (55 papers), Cryptography and Data Security (55 papers) and Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (21 papers). Guowen Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Canada. Guowen Xu's co-authors include Hongwei Li, Sen Liu, Kan Yang, Xiaodong Lin, Meng Hao, Rongxing Lu, Haomiao Yang, Robert H. Deng, Xizhao Luo and Tianwei Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, IEEE Communications Magazine and Energy.

In The Last Decade

Guowen Xu

121 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

VerifyNet: Secure and Verifiable Federated Learning

2019 552 citations Guowen Xu, Hongwei Li et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security profile →
Efficient and Privacy-Enhanced Federated Learning for Industrial Artificial Intelligence

2019 413 citations Hongwei Li, Guowen Xu et al. profile →
Privacy-Enhanced Federated Learning Against Poisoning Adversaries

2021 215 citations Hongwei Li, Guowen Xu 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						Papers	Cites
Guowen Xu China	28	2.6k	755	460	457	342	132	3.5k
Zhong Su China	26	2.3k 0.9×	1.5k 2.0×	463 1.0×	178 0.4×	178 0.5×	162	4.0k
Ting He United States	31	2.1k 0.8×	997 1.3×	3.4k 7.4×	1.4k 3.1×	442 1.3×	181	5.2k
Xiaoming Wang China	25	475 0.2×	426 0.6×	1.1k 2.4×	291 0.6×	218 0.6×	135	2.2k
Juan de Lara Spain	25	1.3k 0.5×	1.3k 1.7×	415 0.9×	153 0.3×	106 0.3×	233	2.8k
Qi Su China	21	1.3k 0.5×	403 0.5×	193 0.4×	110 0.2×	78 0.2×	137	1.9k
Kristin Lauter United States	25	2.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	539 1.2×	293 0.6×	49 0.1×	88	3.7k
Yi Mu Australia	39	4.5k 1.7×	3.1k 4.1×	1.6k 3.5×	468 1.0×	55 0.2×	385	6.0k
Krishnamoorthy Sivakumar United States	17	877 0.3×	226 0.3×	303 0.7×	128 0.3×	62 0.2×	80	1.6k
Jian Yuan China	22	619 0.2×	327 0.4×	992 2.2×	810 1.8×	62 0.2×	159	2.5k
Hong Gao China	27	745 0.3×	594 0.8×	1.3k 2.9×	670 1.5×	137 0.4×	208	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Guowen Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Guowen Xu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guowen Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Guowen Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Guowen Xu 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 Guowen Xu. Guowen Xu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jiang, Wenbo, Hongwei Li, Jiaming He, et al.. (2025). I2I Backdoor: Backdoor Attacks Against Image-to-Image Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 22(6). 7996–8010. 1 indexed citations

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

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

Xu, Guowen, Shengmin Xu, Jianting Ning, et al.. (2025). New Secure Sparse Inner Product With Applications to Machine Learning. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 22(4). 4040–4052. 2 indexed citations

Li, Ming, Jian Weng, Jiasi Weng, et al.. (2025). IvyCross: A Privacy-Preserving and Concurrency Control Framework for Blockchain Interoperability. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 24(10). 9334–9351. 2 indexed citations

Qian, Xinyuan, Hongwei Li, Guowen Xu, et al.. (2024). Privacy-Preserving Data Evaluation via Functional Encryption, Revisited. 11–20. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Guowen, Han Qiu, Shangwei Guo, et al.. (2024). Fingerprinting Image-to-Image Generative Adversarial Networks. 41–61.

Zeng, Zhirui, Tao Xiang, Shangwei Guo, et al.. (2024). Contrast-Then-Approximate: Analyzing Keyword Leakage of Generative Language Models. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 19. 5166–5180.

Ren, Hao, Guowen Xu, Tianwei Zhang, et al.. (2024). Efficiency Boosting of Secure Cross-Platform Recommender Systems Over Sparse Data. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 22(3). 2146–2160. 3 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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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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He, Lin, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of thermal comfort in air-conditioned rooms based on structure/control-related parameters and data-mining method. International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration. 31(1). 2 indexed citations

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Xu, Guowen, Gelei Deng, Tianwei Zhang, et al.. (2023). VerifyML: Obliviously Checking Model Fairness Resilient to Malicious Model Holder. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 21(4). 1785–1800. 3 indexed citations

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Xu, Guowen, Tianwei Zhang, Shengmin Xu, et al.. (2023). SIMC 2.0: Improved Secure ML Inference Against Malicious Clients. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 21(4). 1708–1723. 6 indexed citations

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Yin, Xinchun, et al.. (2022). Secure Updatable Storage Access Control System for EHRs in the Cloud. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 16(4). 2939–2953. 8 indexed citations

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Xu, Shengmin, Jianting Ning, Yingjiu Li, et al.. (2021). A Secure EMR Sharing System With Tamper Resistance and Expressive Access Control. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 20(1). 53–67. 26 indexed citations

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Ren, Hao, Hongwei Li, Dongxiao Liu, Guowen Xu, & Xuemin Shen. (2021). Enabling Secure and Versatile Packet Inspection With Probable Cause Privacy for Outsourced Middlebox. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 10(4). 2580–2594. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Hongwei, et al.. (2021). Enabling Simultaneous Content Regulation and Privacy Protection for Cloud Storage Image. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 11(1). 111–127. 8 indexed citations

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Ren, Hao, Hongwei Li, Dongxiao Liu, et al.. (2020). Privacy-Preserving Efficient Verifiable Deep Packet Inspection for Cloud-Assisted Middlebox. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 10(2). 1052–1064. 34 indexed citations

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Xu, Guowen, Hongwei Li, Hao Ren, Xiaodong Lin, & Xuemin Shen. (2020). DNA Similarity Search With Access Control Over Encrypted Cloud Data. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 10(2). 1233–1252. 23 indexed citations

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