Jinyang Ding

Jinyang Ding

Master’s Student

USTC

Biography

I am Jinyang Ding (Chinese: 丁锦扬), a master’s student in School of Cyber Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), advised by Prof. Weiming Zhang. Prior to that, I got my BS degree in Information Security from China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT) in 2020.

I am deeply passionate about conducting research at the intersection of security, privacy, and artificial intelligence. During my master’s program, my research primarily centered around steganography—a technique aimed at innocuously embedding secret messages into everyday media (e.g., text, images, and audio) to achieve covert communication, instrumental in situations where encrypted traffic is not allowed. I designed a novel, efficient, provably secure steganography algorithm named Discop, based on the concept of “distribution copies” [S&P ’23].

I am looking for a Ph.D. position. I will be thrilled if you are interested in my profile. Feel free to contact me by email!

I want to put a DING in the universe. — Steve Jobs

Interests
  • Information Hiding
  • Encoding & Cryptography
  • AI Security & Privacy
  • Natural Language Processing
Education
  • MS Cyberspace Security

    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

  • BS Information Security, 2020

    China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT)

Publications

(2025). SparSamp: Efficient Provably Secure Steganography Based on Sparse Sampling. To appear in USENIX Security 2025.

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(2024). Provably Secure Public-Key Steganography Based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography. In IEEE TIFS 2024.

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(2024). RoCC: Robust Covert Communication Based on Cross-Modal Information Retrieval. In Journal of Image and Graphics 2024, in Chinese.

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(2023). ICStega: Image Captioning-based Semantically Controllable Linguistic Steganography. In ICASSP 2023.

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