Haowen Xu

Haowen Xu

Master's student researching trustworthy AI and cyber-physical systems security.

Publications

Selected publications are listed below. Please see my Google Scholar profile for the most current record. My name is shown in bold.

Trustworthy AI

ICML 2026

When Agents Go Rogue: Activation-Based Detection of Malicious Behaviors in Multi-Agent Systems

Haowen Xu, Xue Tan, Lei Ma, Zhihao Zhang, Chao Wang, Qingze Wang, Ping Chen, Jun Dai, and Xiaoyan Sun.

Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026. Acceptance rate: 26.6%.

Cyber-Physical Systems Security

SenSys 2026

EMPalm: Exfiltrating Palm Biometric Data via Electromagnetic Side-Channels

Haowen Xu, Tianya Zhao, Xuyu Wang, et al.

Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Saint-Malo, France, 2026. Acceptance rate: 19.8%.

MILCOM 2025

VibLeak: Towards Practical Covert Data Leakage via Phone Vibrations

Junye Jiang, Jingcheng Ju, Haowen Xu, Zhenlu Tan, Duohe Ma, Jun Dai, and Xiaoyan Sun.

IEEE Military Communications Conference, pp. 999–1004, 2025. PDF

ICICS 2025

MagWatch: Exposing Privacy Risks in Smartwatches through Electromagnetic Signals

Haowen Xu, Tianya Zhao, et al.

International Conference on Information and Communications Security, Nanjing, China, 2025. Acceptance rate: 28%. PDF