CV
Basics
| Name | Shuai Zhang |
| Label | Current PhD Candidate |
| shuai.zhang4@student.unsw.edu.au | |
| Url | https://Shuai-Zhang16.github.io/ |
| Summary | I am a current PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. My research interests focus on network traffic analysis and modelling for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. |
Work
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2024.08 - 2024.11 Research and Development Intern
Baishan Cloud Technology Co., Ltd.
Research and evaluated the feasibility of deploying an open-source Operating System tailored for Software-Defined Networking (SDN) on specific white-box switches.
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2023.12 - 2024.05 Casual Research Assistant
UNSW Sydney
Contributed to a project funded by an industry partner, CNLABS, where I developed a tool and specification for comprehensive conformance testing of IoT devices following the IETF RFC8520 standard.
Education
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2025.06 - Present Sydney, Australia
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2020.06 - 2024.11 Sydney, Australia
Bachelor (Honours)
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
Awards
- 2020, 2021
Australia’s Global University Award PUCA1026
UNSW Sydney
Internation student scholarship who graduated from high school with a WACE ATAR exam score above 95.
Publications
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2025.11.12 Towards Behavior Grammar-Driven IoT Network Traffic Generation using MUD Specifications
ACM CPSIoTSec Workshop 2025
This paper presents a novel approach to generating synthetic IoT network traffic by leveraging behavior grammar files of service flows and Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) specifications.
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2025.03 Systematic Verification of IoT Device Conformance to IETF Manufacturer Usage Description Standard
IEEE Communications Standards Magazine
This paper introduces a systematic approach to verify IoT device conformance to the IETF Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) standard.
Skills
| Python Programming | |
| Network Programming |
Languages
| Mandarin | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Fluent |