Anqi Chen

Ph.D. Candidate, Northeastern University

chen.anqi3@northeastern.edu

I’m a PhD candidate at NDS2 lab, advised by Prof. Cristina Nita-Rotaru. My current research focuses on Network Security and Formal Verification. Previously, I also worked on Autonomous Vehicle Security and Differential Privacy algorithm implementations.

Interests

Network Security
5G Core Protocol Security
Protocol Fuzzing
Formal Method
Autonomous Vehicle Security

Education

Northeastern University

2022 - present

Ph.D. Cybersecurity

Peking University

2018 - 2022

B.S. Computer Science

Publications

FUZZVPN: Finding Vulnerabilities in OpenVPN [2025] USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT ’25)

Anqi Chen , Cristina Nita-Rotaru

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Runtime Stealthy Perception Attacks against DNN-based Adaptive Cruise Control Systems [2024] ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS ’25)

Xugui Zhou, Anqi Chen, Maxfield Kouzel, Haotian Ren, Morgan McCarty, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Homa Alemzadeh

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