Zhicong Sun

Research Interests

Safety & Security Analysis and Software Engineering for Cyber-physical systems / Internet of Things
AI for Robotic Perception

[IEEE-IoTJ'23] Zhicong Sun, Yulong Ding, Shuang-Hua Yang, “Contradictions Identification of Safety and Security Requirements for Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 13 November 2023, Doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2023.3332128. (PDF) (Codes). (A 26-page long article)
[IET-CPS'24] Zhicong Sun, Guang Cheng, Yulong Ding, Shuang-Hua Yang, “Joint safety and security risk analysis in industrial cyber-physical systems: A survey”, IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, 14 June 2024, Doi: 10.1049/cps2.12095. (PDF)
[INFOCOM'24] Xinchen Zhang and Running Zhao, Zhihan Jiang, Zhicong Sun, Yulong Ding, Edith C.-H. Ngai, Shuang-Hua Yang, “AOC-IDS: Autonomous Online Framework with Contrastive Learning for Intrusion Detection”, Doi: 10.1109/INFOCOM52122.2024.10621346. (PDF)
[IEEE-TCYB'24] Guang Chen and Zhicong Sun(co-first authors), Yulong Ding, Shuang-Hua Yang, “Risk Assessment for Cyber-Physical Systems under Stealth Attacks”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Under Review.(PDF)

Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ph.D. student | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sept 2023 - Aug 2024

Southern University of Science and Technology, China
M.Eng. Degree | Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sept 2020 - Jun 2023
Supervisor: Prof. Shuang-Hua Yang and Prof. Yulong Ding

Harbin Institute of Technology, China
B.Eng. Degree | Department of Communication Engineering, Sept 2016 - Jun 2020
Supervisor: Prof. Changjun Yu

Second Prize in Preliminary Contest of Business Plan of the 15th China Graduate Electronic Design Contest, 2020 (First Author).
Second Prize in the South China Division of the 15th China Graduate Electronic Design Contest, 2020 (Second Author).
Second Prize in the Final Tournament of the 18th RoboMaster University Championship, China University Robot Competition, 2019 (First Author).
Grand Prize in the North China Division of the 18th Robomaster University Technical Challenge, 2019 (First Author).
First Prize in the Northern Division of the 18th RoboMaster University Championship, China University Robot Competition, 2019 (First Author).
Participation Award in ICRA RoboMaster AI Challenge, 2019 (Member).
Grand Prize in the 7th China Marine Vehicle Design and Construction Contest, 2018 (First Author).
Third Prize in the University Student Science and Technology Innovation Competition, Shandong, 2018 (Second Author).
Third Prize in the Northern Division of the 17th RoboMaster University Championship, China University Robot Competition, 2018 (First Author).
First Prize in the HITwh Internal Contest of the Shandong Science and Technology Innovation Competition, 2018 (Second Author).
Second Prize in the 1st HITwh Headmaster Cup Science and Technology Contest, 2018 (First Author).
First Prize of the HITwh Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Hardware Contest, 2018 (First Author).

Top 10 Influential Graduate, 2020. (Ranked 2nd, awarded a scholarship of 10k RMB, with a selection ratio of 10/2368, at HITwh)
Outstanding Scientific and Technological Innovation Individual of the School of Information Science and Engineering, 2019.
Science and Technology Innovation Scholarship, 2019, 2018, 2017.
Outstanding Communist Party Member of the School of Information Science and Engineering, 2018.
Excellent Volunteer, 2018.
Social Work Scholarship, 2017.
Sports Excellence Scholarship, 2017.

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping of Drones in Large-scale Outdoor Environments
Main Researcher | PolyU, Sept 2023 - Jun 2024

Identification and Resolution of Contradictions between Safety and Security (S&S) in Intelligent Connected Vehicle (ICV)
Main Researcher | SUSTech, Sept 2022 - Jun 2023
Supported by Huawei Trustworthy Intelligent Systems Laboratory.

Dealing with Security and Safety (S&S) Contradictions for Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems
Main Researcher | SUSTech, Sept 2021 - Jun 2023
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant Number: 61873119 and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Safety and Security for Next Generation of Industrial Internet.

Joint Safety and Security Risk Analysis in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (iCPSs)
Main Researcher | SUSTech, Sept 2021 - Jun 2023
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant Number: 61873119 and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Safety and Security for Next Generation of Industrial Internet.

Direction Estimation of Ionospheric Echo based on High-Frequency Ground Wave Radar
Main Researcher | HIT, Jan 2020 - May 2020
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant Number: 61971159 and Institute of Electronic Engineering Technology, HIT.

Simple Covariance Matrix Self-Adaptation Evolution Strategy with Repelling Subpopulations [report]
Main Researcher | SUSTech, May 2021, Advisor: Prof. Xin Yao

Optimization of the initialization of item grouping under the BIGO model [report]
Main Researcher | SUSTech, Apr 2021, Advisor: Prof. Xin Yao

Optimization of the convergence speed and the local search ability of the IFEP algorithm [report]
Main Researcher | SUSTech, Mar 2021, Advisor: Prof. Xin Yao

Electronic Control of Five Kinds of Robots in Robomaster (China University Robot Competition)
Head of the Electronic Control Group | HIT, Aug 2017 - Aug 2019

There are many projects I completed in the process of science and innovation competitions being omitted here.

Huawei Hong Kong Research Center
Researcher Intern | 2012 Theory Lab, Apr 2024 - Jun 2024

Standard Robots, Shenzhen, Co., Ltd [project repository]
Project Intern | Electronic Control Group, Jul 2020 - Aug 2020

ZTE Corporation
Project Intern | Wireless Communication Group, Asia Pacific Training Base, Yantai, Jan 2020 - Feb 2020

HIT Robot Contest Team (HRCT)
Head of the Electronic Control Group | HIT, Aug 2017 - May 2018
Vice Captain & Head of the Electronic Control Group | HIT, Jun 2018 - Aug 2019

Languages: Chinese (native), English (fluent, TOFEL: 101).
Programming: Python, Matlab, C/C, Java.
Others: Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computation, Embedded System Development (ARM, FPGA, FreeRTOS, RT-Thread), Robot Operating System.