About Me

Chenglong Fu

Assistant Professor

Department of Software and Information Systems
UNC Charlotte

I am a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University from 2016 to 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Xiaojiang Du. Prior to that, I earned my bachelor's degree in Information Security from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) from 2011 to 2015.

CESAR at UNC Charlotte: I am a founding member of the Center for Excellence in Secure and Resilient Systems, which brings together computing, engineering, and data‑science researchers to advance secure and resilient systems across critical infrastructure, cyber‑physical platforms, and AI‑enabled services. The center coordinates multi‑investigator research, education, and collaboration with industry and government.

Smart Home IoT Lab: I co‑direct this campus living‑lab and multi‑vendor testbed for IoT and home‑automation security. We evaluate device/automation behavior, study adversarial conditions, and develop deployable protections; the lab supports measurement studies, user‑in‑the‑loop experiments, and release of artifacts and datasets.

News

• Apr 2025

  “Discovering and Exploiting IoT Device Hidden Attributes” accepted to ACM CCS 2025.

• Jun 2025

  “Few-Shot Learning-Based Cyber Incident Detection with Augmented Context Intelligence” accepted to IEEE COMPSAC 2025.

• Sep 2024

  Awarded the UNC Charlotte Core Facilities Program grant to build customizable LLM services for education and research ($250K, 2024–2026).

Selected Publications

Teaching

• ITIS 4221/5221 — Penetration Testing and Secure Programming

  Live demonstrations, Hack The Box guided labs, and responsible AI tooling. Spring 2025 instructor evaluation: 4.0/5.

• ITIS 3200 — Introduction to Security and Privacy

  Practice-driven redesign that integrates AI-assisted analysis and continuous feedback.

• ITSC 3146 — Operating Systems and Computer Networks

  Combined lectures with live demonstrations and scenario-based assessments. Instructor evaluation: 4.1/5.

Funding

• UNC Charlotte LLM Core Facility

  Role: Lead PI. Building Customizable Large Language Model Services for Education and Research — UNC Charlotte Core Facilities Program — $250K (2024–2026).

• NC ROI: CESAR

  Role: Co-PI. North Carolina Research Capacity Building for a Secure & Reliable Power Grid 2050 — NC Research Opportunities Initiative — $1.5M (2023–2026).

• UNC Charlotte FRG

  Role: PI. Automated Auditing of Initial Coin Offerings — UNC Charlotte Faculty Research Grant — $8K (2024–2025).

Service