Hao Cui (崔灏)

Personal Page: cvhc.cc | Email: cuih7@uci.edu / cuihao.leo@gmail.com

I am a Ph.D. student in the Networked Systems program at UC Irvine, working with Prof. Athina Markopoulou.

I am currently exploring research topics related to privacy in web and mobile systems (such as ad technology and tracking). I also have research experience in image watermarking and deep learning security.

Education

University of California, Irvine (2020-present)

• Ph.D. student in Networked Systems (Advisor: Prof. Athina Markopoulou)

University of Science and Technology of China (2017-2020)

• M.Eng. in Electronics and Communication Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Weiming Zhang)

University of Science and Technology of China (2013-2017)

• B.Sci. in Geophysics (GPA: 3.47/4.30)
• B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology (GPA: 3.71/4.30)

Publications

• A Camera Shooting Resilient Watermarking Scheme for Underpainting Documents (2020)

  • Fang Han, Zhang Weiming, Ma Zehua, Zhou Hang, Sun Shan, Cui Hao, Yu Nenghai
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)

• Model Watermarking for Image Processing Networks (2020)

  • Zhang Jie, Chen Dongdong, Liao Jing, Fang Han, Zhang Weiming, Zhou Hang, Cui Hao, Yu Nenghai
  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

• UnseenCode: Invisible On-screen Barcode with Image-based Extraction (2019)

  • Cui Hao, Bian Huanyu, Zhang Weiming, and Yu Nenghai
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
  • Download: Pre-print, Android Demo

• Screen-Shooting Resilient Watermarking (2018)

  • Fang Han, Zhang Weiming, Zhou Hang, Cui Hao, and Yu Nenghai
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)

• Parallel Image Registration Implementations for GMTSAR Package (2018)

  • Cui Hao, and Zha Xianjie
  • Seismological Research Letters
  • Download: Code

Competitions

• IJCAI-19 Alibaba Adversarial AI Challenge (2019), 1st/4th/2nd (defense/targeted/non-targeted attack)

  • Team RNG: Jiayang Liu, Hao Cui, Xiaoyi Dong
  • Leaderboard, News 1 (Chinese), News 2 (Chinese)

• Kaggle Deepfake Detection Challenge (2020), 2nd place

  • Team \WM/: Hanqing Zhao, Hao Cui, Weibo Zhou
  • Leaderboard, News (Chinese)

Thesis & Coursework

• Bachelor's Thesis (Geophysics): Design and implementation of multi-threaded parallel InSAR processing program (2017)

  • Supervisor: Prof. Xianjie Zha
  • Downloads: LaTeX source / Code

• Bachelor's Thesis (Computer Science and Technology): Designing GPGPU parallel image-processing algorithms with OpenCL framework on mobile devices (2017)

  • Supervisor: Prof. Yun Xu
  • Download: Code

• Undergraduate Research: Implementation of a screen-camera communication system (2016)

  • Supervisor: Prof. Weiming Zhang
  • Download: Linux encoder, Android receiver

• College Physics Experiment IV: Android image processing in the experiments of Zeeman effect (2015)

  • Team: Hao Cui, Ziyao Mu, and Yihan Cui / Supervisor: Dr. Yugang Guo
  • Special Prize in the 11th Competition of Physical Research Experiments of USTC
  • Download: Android App

Skills

• Language:

  • GRE General: AW4.0/V160/Q169; TOEFL: 102 (R30/L28/S21/W23)
  • (Japanese) JLPT N2: Pass

• Productivity:

  • Programming: C/C++, Python, UNIX Shell, Java...; Linux & Android.
  • Development: Image processing, machine learning, parallel computing...
  • I have experience in a wide range of open-source tools and techniques.

Extra

• Server Administrator of Prof. Zhang Weiming's Group (2017-2020)
• Teaching Assistant for the course Computer Programming A at USTC (2016 Fall, 2017 Fall)
• President of USTC Linux User Group (2015-2016)
• CTO and Vice President of USTC Linux User Group (2014-2015)