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An asterisk (*) indicates alphabetic ordering of authors, following the convention of theoretical computer science and mathematics. A number sign (#) indicates the corresponding author(s).

Edited Special Issues

  1. Sihem Mesnager, Xiaohu Tang, Zhengchun Zhou, Chunming Tang, and Qi Wang
    Special Issue on Cryptography and Coding Theory - dedicated to the 60th Birthday of Prof. Cunsheng Ding,
    Advances in Mathematics of Commnications (AMC), vol. 16, no. 4, 2022.

  2. Cunsheng Ding and Qi Wang
    Special Issue on Cryptography,
    International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS), vol. 22, no. 6, 2011.

Book Chapters

  1. *Koji Momihara, Qi Wang and Qing Xiang#
    Cyclotomy, difference sets, sequences with low correlation, strongly regular graphs and related geometric substructures.
    In Kai-Uwe Schmidt, Arne Winterhof (Eds.) Combinatorics and Finite Fields,
    RiCAM Radon Series on Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol. 23, pp. 173-198, Berlin:De Gruyter, 2019.
    [ arXiv ]

Journal Papers

  1. Junjie Ma, Muhui Jiang, Edmond W.W. Chan, Xiapu Luo#, Qi Wang#, and Fengwei Zhang#.
    Enhancing blockchain robustness through efficient feedback-driven chaos engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), vol. 52, no. 10, pp. 3090-3105, 2026.

  2. Zhongfeng Niu, Siwei Sun#, Hailun Yan, and Qi Wang.
    Link between the differential cryptanalysis and linear approximations over finite abelian groups and its applications.
    Journal of Cryptology (JoC), vol. 39, Article 13, 40 pages, 2026.

  3. Rujia Li, Xuanwei Hu, Qin Wang, Sisi Duan#, and Qi Wang#.
    Transaction fairness in blockchains, revisited.
    IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), vol. 23, pp. 752-765, 2026.

  4. Junjie Ma, Muhui Jiang, Jinan Jiang, Xiapu Luo#, Yufeng Hu, Yajin Zhou, Qi Wang#, and Fengwei Zhang#.
    Understanding security issues in the DAO governance process.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 1188-1204, 2025.

  5. *Geyang Wang and Qi Wang#.
    On the maximum size of variable-length non-overlapping codes.
    Designs, Codes and Cryptography (DCC), vol. 93, no. 4, pp. 871-878, 2025.

  6. Avik Ranjan Adhikary, Hui Zhang, Zhengchun Zhou#, Qi Wang, and Sihem Mesnager.
    Quasi complementary sequence sets: New bounds and optimal constructions via quasi-Florentine Rectangles.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 2271-2291, 2025.

  7. Rujia Li, Yuanzhao Li, Qin Wang, Sisi Duan#, Qi Wang#, and Mark Ryan#.
    Accountable decryption made formal and practical.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), vol. 20, pp. 620-635, 2025.

  8. Rujia Li, Qin Wang, Yuanzhao Li, Sisi Duan#, Qi Wang#, and David Galindo.
    Bringing smart contract confidentiality via trusted hardware: Fact and fiction.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), vol. 20, pp. 159-174, 2025.

  9. Ziling Heng, Xiaoru Li#, Yansheng Wu, and Qi Wang.
    Two families of linear codes with desirable properties from some functions over finite fields.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), vol. 70, no. 11, pp. 8320-8342, 2024. [ arXiv ]

  10. Yulian Mao, Qingqing Ye#, Qi Wang, and Haibo Hu.
    Differential privacy for time series: A survey.
    IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin (DE Bulletin), vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 67-92, 2024.

  11. *Geyang Wang and Qi Wang#.
    On the size distribution of the fixed-length Levenshtein balls with radius one.
    Designs, Codes and Cryptography (DCC), vol. 92, no. 4, pp. 2253-2265, 2024.

  12. Ning Lu, Shengcai Liu#, Rui He, Yew-Soon Ong, Qi Wang, and Ke Tang.
    Large language models can be guided to evade AI-generated text detection.
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2024.

  13. Yulian Mao, Qingqing Ye, Qi Wang#, and Haibo Hu#.
    Utility-aware time series data release with anomalies under TLDP.
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 7135-7147, 2024.

  14. Qin Wang, Rujia Li, David Galindo, Qi Wang, Shiping Chen, and Yang Xiang.
    Transparent registation-based encryption through blockchain.
    ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT), vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-14, 2023.

  15. Chunming Tang#, Peng Han, Qi Wang, Jun Zhang, and Yanfeng Qi.
    The solution to an open problem on the bentness of Mesnager's functions.
    Finite Fields and Their Applications (FFA), vol. 88, paper no. 102170, 2023.

  16. Meng Zhao, Changli Ma#, Yanan Feng, and Qi Wang.
    Two classes of LDPC codes from the space of Hermitian matrices over finite fields.
    Advances in Mathematics of Communications (AMC), vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 1211-1222, 2022.

  17. Qi Wang.
    Steiner systems $S(2,4,2^m)$ supported by a family of extended cyclic codes.
    Advances in Mathematics of Communications (AMC), vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 1011-1022, 2022.

  18. Chunming Tang, Qi Wang#, and Cunsheng Ding.
    The subfield codes and subfield subcodes of a family of MDS codes.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), vol. 68, no. 9, pp. 5792-5801, 2022. [ arXiv ]

  19. *Geyang Wang and Qi Wang#.
    $q$-ary non-overlapping codes: a generating function approach.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), vol. 68, no. 8, pp. 5154-5164, 2022. [ arXiv ]

  20. Xiaoni Du, Rong Wang, Chunming Tang, and Qi Wang#.
    Infinite families of $2$-designs from linear codes.
    Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing (AAECC), vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 193-211, 2022.

  21. Kaiqiang Liu, Qi Wang, and Haode Yan#.
    A class of binary cyclic codes with optimal parameters.
    Cryptography and Communications (CCDS), vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 663-675, 2022.

  22. Xiaoni Du, Rong Wang#, Chunming Tang, and Qi Wang.
    Infinite families of 2-designs from two classes of binary cyclic codes with three nonzeros.
    Advances in Mathematics of Communications (AMC), vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 157-168, 2022.

  23. Yuwen Huang, Chengju Li#, Qi Wang, and Zongrun Du.
    Parameters and characterizations of hulls of some projective narrow-sense BCH codes.
    Designs, Codes and Cryptography (DCC), vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 87-106, 2022.

  24. Zhi Gu, Zhengchun Zhou#, Qi Wang, and Pingzhi Fan.
    New construction of optimal Type-II binary Z-complementary pairs.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 3497-3508, 2021.

  25. *Jerod Michel and Qi Wang.
    Placement delivery arrays from combinations of strong edge colorings.
    IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM), vol. 68, no. 10, pp. 5953-5964, 2020.

  26. *Ka Hin Leung and Qi Wang#.
    New nonexistence results on $(m,n)$-generalized bent functions.
    Designs, Codes and Cryptography (DCC), vol. 88, no. 3, pp. 553-565, 2020.

  27. Can Xiang#, Xin Ling, and Qi Wang.
    Combinatorial $t$-designs from quadratic functions.
    Designs, Codes and Cryptography (DCC), vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 755-770, 2020.

  28. *Jerod Michel and Qi Wang.
    Partial geometric designs from group actions.
    Designs, Codes and Cryptography (DCC), vol. 87, no. 11, pp. 2655-2670, 2019.

  29. Haode Yan, Zhengchun Zhou#, Jian Weng, Jinming Wen, Tor Helleseth, and Qi Wang.
    Differential spectrum of Kasami power permutations over odd characteristic finite fields.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), vol. 65, no. 10, pp. 6819-6826, 2019.

  30. *Jerod Michel and Qi Wang.
    Almost designs and their links with balanced incomplete block designs.
    Designs, Codes and Cryptography (DCC), vol. 87, no. 9, pp. 1945-1960, 2019.

  31. *Jerod Michel and Qi Wang.
    Almost difference sets in nonabelian groups.
    Designs, Codes and Cryptography (DCC), vol. 87, no. 6, pp. 1243-1251, 2019.

  32. *Jerod Michel and Qi Wang.
    Some new balanced and almost balanced quaternary sequences with low autocorrelation.
    Cryptography and Communications (CCDS), vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 191-206, 2019.

  33. *Changli Ma, Qi Wang, and Meng Zhao.
    LDPC codes based on the space of symmetric matrices over finite fields.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), vol. 63, no. 7, pp. 4332-4343, 2017.

  34. Qi Wang.
    Some cyclic codes with prime length from cyclotomy of order 4.
    Cryptography and Communications (CCDS), vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 85-92, 2017.

  35. *Cunsheng Ding, Alexander Pott, and Qi Wang#.
    Skew Hadamard difference sets from Dickson polynomials of order $7$.
    Journal of Combinatorial Designs (JCD), vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 436-461, 2015.

  36. *Alexander Pott and Qi Wang#.
    Difference balanced functions and their generalized difference sets.
    Journal of Combinatorial Theory-Series A (JCT-A), vol. 131, pp. 61-70, 2015.

  37. *Cunsheng Ding, Alexander Pott, and Qi Wang#.
    Constructions of almost difference sets from finite fields.
    Designs, Codes and Cryptography (DCC), vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 581-592, 2014.

  38. *Cunsheng Ding, Qi Wang#, and Maosheng Xiong.
    Three new families of zero-difference balanced functions with applications.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 2407-2413, 2014.

  39. *Qi Wang and Yue Zhou.
    Sets of zero-difference balanced functions and their applications.
    Advances in Mathematics of Communications (AMC), vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 83-101, 2014.

  40. *Gohar Kyureghyan, Peter Müller, and Qi Wang.
    On the size of Kakeya sets in finite vector spaces.
    Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (EJC), vol. 20, no. 3, paper 36, 2013.

  41. Qi Wang.
    The linear span of the frequency hopping sequences in optimal sets.
    Designs, Codes and Cryptography (DCC), vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 331-344, 2011.

  42. Qi Wang# and Xiaoni Du.
    The linear complexity of binary sequences with optimal autocorrelation.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 6388-6397, 2010.

  43. Qi Wang.
    The linear complexity of some binary sequences with three-level autocorrelation.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 4046-4052, 2010.

  44. Qi Wang.
    Optimal sets of frequency hopping sequences with large linear spans.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 1729-1736, 2010.

Conference Papers

  1. Ning Lu, Baijiong Lin, Shengcai Liu#, Jiahao Wu, Haoze Lv, Yanbin Wei, Lingting Zhu, Shengju Qian, Xin Wang, Yingcong Chen, Qi Wang, and Ke Tang.
    Policy and world modeling co-training for language agents. (long paper)
    In Proceedings of The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), Vancouver, Canada, July 13-19, 2025.

  2. Ning Lu, Shengcai Liu#, Jiahao Wu, Weiyu Chen, Zhirui Zhang, Yew-Soon Ong, Qi Wang, and Ke Tang.
    Safe Delta: Consistently preserving safety when fine-tuning LLMs on diverse datasets.
    In Proceedings of The 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025), Vancouver, Canada, July 13-19, 2025.

  3. Yulian Mao, Qingqing Ye#, Rong Du, Qi Wang#, Kai Huang, and Haibo Hu.
    Multi-class item mining under local differential privacy.
    In Proceedings of The 41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2025), Hong Kong SAR, China, May 19-23, 2025.

  4. Xuanwei Hu, Rujia Li, Yi Liu, and Qi Wang#.
    Towards efficient and practical multi-party computation under inconsistent trust in TEEs.
    In Proceedings of The 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2025), San Francisco, USA, May 12-15, 2025.

  5. Yi Liu, Junzuo Lai#, Peng Yang#, Anjia Yang, Qi Wang, Siu Ming Yiu, and Jian Weng#.
    Highly efficient actively secure two-party computation with one-bit advantage bound.
    In Proceedings of The 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2025), San Francisco, USA, May 12-15, 2025.

  6. Ning Lu, Shengcai Liu#, Zhirui Zhang, Qi Wang, Haifeng Liu, and Ke Tang.
    Less is more: Understanding word-level textual adversarial attack via n-gram frequency descend.
    In Proceedings of The IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI 2024), Singapore, Jun. 25-27, 2024.

  7. Yulian Mao, Qingqing Ye#, Haibo Hu, Qi Wang, and Kai Huang.
    PrivShape: Extracting shapes in time series under user-level local differential privacy.
    In Proceedings of The 40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2024), Utrecht, Netherlands, May 13-17, 2024.

  8. Yi Liu, Junzuo Lai#, Qi Wang, Xianrui Qin, Anjia Yang, and Jian Weng#.
    Robust publicly verifiable covert security: limited information leakage and guaranteed correctness with low overhead.
    In Proceedings of The 29th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security (ASIACRYPT 2023), Guangzhou, China, Dec. 4-8, 2023.

  9. Xinrui Zhang, Rujia Li, Qin Wang, Qi Wang#, and Sisi Duan#.
    Time-manipulation attack: breaking fairness against proof of authority Aura.
    In Proceedings of The 2023 ACM Web Conference (WWW 2023), Austin, USA, Apr. 30-May 4, 2023.

  10. Yi Liu, Qi Wang#, and Siu Ming Yiu.
    Towards practical homomorphic time-lock puzzles: Applicability and verifiability.
    In Proceedings of The 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2022), Copenhagen, Denmark, Sep. 26-30, 2022.

  11. Rujia Li, Qin Wang, Qi Wang#, David Galindo#, and Mark Ryan#.
    SoK: TEE-assisted confidential smart contract.
    In Proceedings of The 22nd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2022), Sydney, Australia, Jul. 11-15, 2022.

  12. Qin Wang, Rujia Li, Qi Wang#, Shiping Chen, and Yang Xiang.
    Exploring unfairness on proof of authority: Order manipulation attacks and remidies.
    In Proceedings of The 17th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2022), Nagasaki, Japan, May 30-Jun. 2, 2022.

  13. Xinrui Zhang, Qin Wang, Rujia Li and Qi Wang#.
    Frontrunning block attack in PoA Clique: A case study.
    In Proceedings of The 4th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2022), online, May 2-5, 2022.

  14. *Geyang Wang and Qi Wang#.
    On the size distribution of Levenshtein balls with radius one.
    In Preproceedings of The Twelfth International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC 2022), Rostock, Germany, Mar. 7-11, 2022.

  15. Yi Liu, Qi Wang#, and Siu Ming Yiu.
    Making private function evaluation safer, faster and simpler.
    In Proceedings of The 25th International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography (PKC 2022), Yokohama, Japan, Mar. 7-11, 2022.

  16. Yi Liu, Qi Wang#, and Siu Ming Yiu.
    Improved zero-knowledge argument of encrypted extended permutation.
    In Proceedings of The 17th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (Inscrypt 2021), online, Aug. 12-14, 2021.

  17. Yi Liu, Qi Wang#, and Siu Ming Yiu.
    Blind polynomial evaluation and data trading.
    In Proceedings of The 19th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2021), online, Kamakura, Japan, Jun. 21-24, 2021.

  18. Rujia Li, Qin Wang, Xinrui Zhang, Qi Wang#, David Galindo, and Yang Xiang.
    An offline delegatable cryptocurrency system.
    In Proceedings of The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2021), online, May 3-6, 2021.

  19. Rujia Li, Qin Wang, Feng Liu, Qi Wang#, and David Galindo#.
    An accountable decryption system based on privacy-preserving smart contracts.
    In Proceedings of The 23rd International Conference on Information Security (ISC 2020), Bali, Indonesia, Dec. 16-18, 2020.

  20. Yi Liu, Qi Wang#, and Siu Ming Yiu.
    An improvement of multi-exponentiation with encrypted bases argument: Smaller and faster.
    In Proceedings of The 16th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (Inscrypt 2020), Guangzhou, China, Dec. 11-14, 2020.

  21. *Feng Liu and Qi Wang#.
    IBRS: an efficient identity-based batch verification scheme for VANETs based on ring signature.
    In Proceedings of The 2019 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2019), Los Angeles, USA, Dec. 4-6, 2019.

  22. *Geyang Wang and Qi Wang#.
    An OACF-preserving operation based on Parker's transformation.
    In Proceedings of The 9th International Workshop on Signal Design and its Applications in Communications (IWSDA 2019), Dongguan, China, Oct. 20-24, 2019

  23. *Jerod Michel and Qi Wang.
    Placement delivery arrays from combinations of strong edge colorings.
    In Proceedings of The 9th International Workshop on Signal Design and its Applications in Communications (IWSDA 2019), Dongguan, China, Oct. 20-24, 2019

  24. Rujia Li, David Galindo, and Qi Wang#.
    Auditable credential anonymity revocation based on privacy-preserving smart contracts.
    In Proceedings of The 3rd International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology (CBT 2019), LNCS no. 11737, Luxembourg, Sep. 26-27, 2019.

  25. *Alexander Pott and Qi Wang#.
    Some results on difference balanced functions.
    In Proceedings of The International Workshop on the Arithmetic of finite fields (WAIFI 2014), LNCS no. 9061, Gebze, Turkey, Sep. 26-28, 2014.

  26. *Gohar Kyureghyan and Qi Wang#.
    An upper bound on the size of Kakeya sets in finite vector spaces.
    In Preproceedings of International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC 2013), Bergen, Norway, Apr. 15-19, 2013.

  27. *Alexander Pott#, Qi Wang, and Yue Zhou.
    Sequences and functions derived from projective planes and their difference sets.
    In Proceedings of The International Workshop on the Arithmetic of finite fields (WAIFI 2012), LNCS no. 7369, Bochum, Germany, Jul. 16-19, 2012.

  28. Qi Wang# and Xiaoni Du.
    The linear complexity of binary sequences with optimal autocorrelation.
    In Proceedings of The 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2010), Austin, USA, Jun. 13-18, 2010.

  29. Qi Wang, Yonglong Luo, and Liusheng Huang.
    Privacy-preserving protocols for finding the convex hulls.
    In Proceedings of The third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2008), Barcelona, Spain, Mar. 4-7, 2008.

Thesis

  1. Qi Wang.
    The Linear Complexity of Sequences with Desirable Correlation (103 pages).
    Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2011.