Chow Ka Ho 周嘉豪

  • Scholarship in 2021 at Georgia Institute of Technology

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). I was named an IBM PhD Fellow in 2022 and a Croucher Scholar in 2021. Before joining HKU, I was a research scientist at IBM Research and received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), advised by Prof. Ling Liu.

My research interests are at the intersection of machine learning, cybersecurity, and systems. The overarching goal is to amplify the real-world impact of artificial intelligence by building trustworthy and scalable technologies. To this end, my recent work focuses on (i) understanding new security and privacy threats to AI systems, (ii) developing attack-resilient solutions, and (iii) enhancing scalability through algorithmic and infrastructure optimization. These efforts span various learning approaches, including centralized and federated learning, and cover a range of applications across, e.g., large language models and visual recognition.

Selected Publications

  • Sihao Hu, Tiansheng Huang, Ka-Ho Chow, Wenqi Wei, Yanzhao Wu, and Ling Liu, "ZipZap: Efficient Training of Language Models for Ethereum Fraud Detection," The Web Conference (WWW), Singapore, May 13-17, 2024.
  • Ka-Ho Chow, Umesh Deshpande, Veera Deenadhayalan, Sangeetha Seshadri, and Ling Liu, "Atlas: Hybrid Cloud Migration Advisor for Interactive Microservices," ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Athens, Greece, Apr. 22-25, 2024.
  • Fatih Ilhan, Ka-Ho Chow, Sihao Hu, Tiansheng Huang, Selim Tekin, Wenqi Wei, Yanzhao Wu, Myungjin Lee, Ramana Kompella, Hugo Latapie, Gaowen Liu, and Ling Liu, "Adaptive Deep Neural Network Inference Optimization with EENet," IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikoloa, HI, USA, Jan 4-8, 2024.
  • Tiansheng Huang, Sihao Hu, Ka-Ho Chow, Fatih Ilhan, Selim Furkan Tekin, and Ling Liu, "Lockdown: Backdoor Defense for Federated Learning with Isolated Subspace Training," Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), New Orleans, LA, USA, Dec 10-16, 2023.
  • Wenqi Wei, Ka-Ho Chow, Fatih Ilhan, Yanzhao Wu, and Ling Liu, "Model Cloaking against Gradient Leakage," IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Shanghai, China, Dec 1-4, 2023.
  • Yanzhao Wu, Ka-Ho Chow, Wenqi Wei, and Ling Liu, "Exploring Model Learning Heterogeneity for Boosting Ensemble Robustness," IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Shanghai, China, Dec 1-4, 2023.
  • Ka-Ho Chow, Ling Liu, Wenqi Wei, Fatih Ilhan, and Yanzhao Wu, "STDLens: Model Hijacking-Resilient Federated Learning for Object Detection," IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vancouver, Canada, Jun. 18-22, 2023.
  • Ka-Ho Chow, Umesh Deshpande, Veera Deenadhayalan, Sangeetha Seshadri, and Ling Liu, "SCAD: Scalability Advisor for Interactive Microservices on Hybrid Clouds," ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Seattle, WA, USA, Jun. 18-23, 2023.
  • Ka-Ho Chow and Ling Liu, "Boosting Object Detection Ensembles with Error Diversity," IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Orlando, FL, USA, Nov. 28 - Dec. 1, 2022. 
  • Ka-Ho Chow, Umesh Deshpande, Sangeetha Seshadri, and Ling Liu, "DeepRest: Deep Resource Estimation for Interactive Microservices," ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Rennes, France, Apr. 5-8, 2022. 
  • Ka-Ho Chow and Ling Liu, "Robust Object Detection Fusion Against Deception," ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), Singapore, Aug. 14-18, 2021.
  • Ka-Ho Chow, Umesh Deshpande, Sangeetha Seshadri, and Ling Liu, "SRA: Smart Recovery Advisor for Cyber Attacks," ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, Jun. 20-25, 2021.
  • Yanzhao Wu, Ling Liu, Zhongwei Xie, Ka-Ho Chow, and Wenqi Wei, "Boosting Ensemble Accuracy by Revisiting Ensemble Diversity Metrics," IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Nashville, TN, USA, Jun. 19-25, 2021.
  • Ka-Ho Chow, Ling Liu, Mehmet Emre Gursoy, Stacey Truex, Wenqi Wei, and Yanzhao Wu, "Understanding Object Detection Through An Adversarial Lens," European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Guildford, United Kingdom, Sep. 14-18, 2020.
  • Wenqi Wei, Ling Liu, Margaret Loper, Ka-Ho Chow, Mehmet Emre Gursoy, Stacey Truex, and Yanzhao Wu, "A Framework for Evaluating Gradient Leakage Attacks in Federated Learning," European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Guildford, United Kingdom, Sep. 14-18, 2020.
  • Ka-Ho Chow, Wenqi Wei, Yanzhao Wu, and Ling Liu, "Denoising and Verification Cross-Layer Ensemble Against Black-box Adversarial Attacks," IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Los Angeles, CA, USA, Dec. 9-12, 2019.
  • Wenqi Wei, Ka-Ho Chow, Yanzhao Wu, and Ling Liu, "Demystifying Data Poisoning Attacks in Distributed Learning as a Service," IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 237-250, February 2024.
  • Yanzhao Wu, Ka-Ho Chow, Wenqi Wei, and Ling Liu, "Hierarchical Pruning of Deep Ensembles with Focal Diversity," ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Vol. 15, No. 15, pp. 1-24, January 2024.
  • Wenqi Wei, Ling Liu, Jingya Zhou, Ka-Ho Chow, and Yanzhao Wu, "Securing Distributed SGD against Gradient Leakage Threats," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 34, No. 7, pp. 2040-2054, July 2023.
  • Jiajie Tan, Hang Wu, Ka-Ho Chow, and Shueng-Han Gary Chan, "Implicit Multimodal Crowdsourcing for Joint RF and Geomagnetic Fingerprinting," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 935-950, February 2023. 
  • Mehmet Emre Gursoy, Ling Liu, Ka-Ho Chow, Stacey Truex, and Wenqi Wei, "An Adversarial Approach to Protocol Analysis and Selection in Local Differential Privacy," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Vol. 17, pp. 1785-1799, May 2022.
  • Ka-Ho Chow, Suining He, Jiajie Tan, and Shueng-Han Gary Chan, "Efficient Locality Classification for Indoor Fingerprint-based Systems," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 290-304, February 2019.