Zixun Xiong

Hi! I am Zixun Xiong, a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department of George Mason University (GMU) under the advise of Dr. Yicheng Zhang since 2026 Spring.
Previously, I was a research assistant under the advise of Dr. Hao Wang in the IntelliSys lab. My research focuses on the Trustworthy AI and XR System Security.

Selected Publications

• iSeal: Encrypted Fingerprinting for Reliable LLM Ownership Verification
  Zixun Xiong, Gaoyi Wu, Qingyang Yu, Mingyu Derek Ma, Lingfeng Yao, Miao Pan, Xiaojiang Du, and Hao Wang
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’26) (Acceptance Rate 17.6 %)
  PDF / arXiv; Slide; Code

• Deep Learning Backdoor Defense via Adaptive Trigger Collisions in Latent Space
  Zixun Xiong, Hao Wang, Jian Li, Yang Hua, Miao Pan, and Xiaojiang Du

  ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS’26) (Acceptance Rate 22.3 %)
  PDF / arXiv; Slide; Code

• OverSync: Covert and Side-Channel Attacks on Linux XXX
  Ziyi Guo, Zixun Xiong, Yan Chen, and Yicheng Zhang

  The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’27), Seoul, Republic of Korea, March 2027
  Security Bounty: $XXX from the XXX Team
  PDF;

A full list is available on the Publications page.

News

• 2026.03 – ATClean accepted to AsiaCCS 2026 🎉
• 2025.11 – iSeal accepted to AAAI 2026 🎉