Zhuoran Tan
z.tan.1@research.gla.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0809-0376
Research title: Runtime Observability and Security Analytics for Software Supply Chain Defense
Research summary
The Cyber Attack Chain Analysis with Federated Graph Neural Network
Publications
2026
Tan, Zhuoran, Guo, Wenbo, Brierley, Taylor, Luo, Jiewen, Singer, Jeremy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802 and Anagnostopoulos, Christos
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757
(2026)
An Empirical Study of Observability Limits in Advanced Software
Supply Chain Attacks.
In: 2026 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '26), The Hague, The Netherlands, 15-19 Nov 2026,
(Accepted for Publication)
Tan, Zhuoran, Singer, Jeremy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802 and Anagnostopoulos, Christos
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757
(2026)
Attesting LLM Pipelines: Enforcing Verifiable Training and Release Claims.
In: 2nd International Workshop on Large Language Model Supply Chain Analysis (LLMSC 2026), Montreal, Canada, 05 July 2026,
pp. 1553-1556.
ISBN 9798400726361
(doi: 10.1145/3803437.3805530)
Xiao, Ke, Wang, Qiyuan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2298-7195, Anagnostopoulos, Christos
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757, Tan, Zhuoran and Li, Wenhao
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5386-0841
(2026)
FedHera: Towards Drift-Resilient Federated Fine-tuning with Heterogeneous Resources.
In: 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026), Seoul, South Korea, 6-11 July 2026,
(Accepted for Publication)
2025
Tan, Zhuoran, Anagnostopoulos, Christos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757, Parambath, Sham P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5338-9385, Xiao, Ke
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6713-0053 and Singer, Jeremy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802
(2025)
Unified Parallel Semantic Log Parsing based on Causal Graph Construction for Attack Attribution.
In: 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Glasgow, UK, 20-23 July 2025,
pp. 81-86.
ISBN 9798331517250
(doi: 10.1109/ICDCSW63273.2025.00020)
Tan, Zhuoran, Anagnostopoulos, Christos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757 and Singer, Jeremy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802
(2025)
Distributed Temporal Graph Learning with Provenance for APT Detection in Supply Chains.
In: IEEE ICDCS 2025 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Glasgow, Scotland UK, 20-23 July 2025,
pp. 372-374.
ISBN 9798331517250
(doi: 10.1109/ICDCSW63273.2025.00071)
Tan, Zhuoran, Wang, Qiyuan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2298-7195, Anagnostopoulos, Christos
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757, Puthiya Parambath, Sham
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5338-9385, Singer, Jeremy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802 and Temple, Sam
(2025)
Distributed Log-driven Anomaly Detection System Based on Evolving Decision Making.
In: 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2025), Glasgow, UK, 20-23 July 2025,
pp. 231-236.
ISBN 9798331517250
(doi: 10.1109/ICDCSW63273.2025.00045)
Tan, Zhuoran, Anagnostopoulos, Christos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757 and Singer, Jeremy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802
(2025)
OSPtrack: A Labeled Dataset Targeting Simulated Execution of Open-Source Software.
In: 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2025), Ottowa, Canada, 28-29 April 2025,
pp. 659-663.
ISBN 9798331501839
(doi: 10.1109/MSR66628.2025.00102)
Tan, Zhuoran, Parambath, Shameem, Anagnostopoulos, Christos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757, Singer, Jeremy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802 and Marnerides, Angelos K.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7996-6216
(2025)
Advanced persistent threats based on supply chain vulnerabilities: challenges, solutions & future directions.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal,
(doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2025.3528744)
(Early Online Publication)
Articles
Tan, Zhuoran, Parambath, Shameem, Anagnostopoulos, Christos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757, Singer, Jeremy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802 and Marnerides, Angelos K.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7996-6216
(2025)
Advanced persistent threats based on supply chain vulnerabilities: challenges, solutions & future directions.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal,
(doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2025.3528744)
(Early Online Publication)
Conference Proceedings
Tan, Zhuoran, Guo, Wenbo, Brierley, Taylor, Luo, Jiewen, Singer, Jeremy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802 and Anagnostopoulos, Christos
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757
(2026)
An Empirical Study of Observability Limits in Advanced Software
Supply Chain Attacks.
In: 2026 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '26), The Hague, The Netherlands, 15-19 Nov 2026,
(Accepted for Publication)
Tan, Zhuoran, Singer, Jeremy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802 and Anagnostopoulos, Christos
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757
(2026)
Attesting LLM Pipelines: Enforcing Verifiable Training and Release Claims.
In: 2nd International Workshop on Large Language Model Supply Chain Analysis (LLMSC 2026), Montreal, Canada, 05 July 2026,
pp. 1553-1556.
ISBN 9798400726361
(doi: 10.1145/3803437.3805530)
Xiao, Ke, Wang, Qiyuan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2298-7195, Anagnostopoulos, Christos
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757, Tan, Zhuoran and Li, Wenhao
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5386-0841
(2026)
FedHera: Towards Drift-Resilient Federated Fine-tuning with Heterogeneous Resources.
In: 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026), Seoul, South Korea, 6-11 July 2026,
(Accepted for Publication)
Tan, Zhuoran, Anagnostopoulos, Christos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757, Parambath, Sham P.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5338-9385, Xiao, Ke
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6713-0053 and Singer, Jeremy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802
(2025)
Unified Parallel Semantic Log Parsing based on Causal Graph Construction for Attack Attribution.
In: 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Glasgow, UK, 20-23 July 2025,
pp. 81-86.
ISBN 9798331517250
(doi: 10.1109/ICDCSW63273.2025.00020)
Tan, Zhuoran, Anagnostopoulos, Christos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757 and Singer, Jeremy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802
(2025)
Distributed Temporal Graph Learning with Provenance for APT Detection in Supply Chains.
In: IEEE ICDCS 2025 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Glasgow, Scotland UK, 20-23 July 2025,
pp. 372-374.
ISBN 9798331517250
(doi: 10.1109/ICDCSW63273.2025.00071)
Tan, Zhuoran, Wang, Qiyuan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2298-7195, Anagnostopoulos, Christos
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757, Puthiya Parambath, Sham
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5338-9385, Singer, Jeremy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802 and Temple, Sam
(2025)
Distributed Log-driven Anomaly Detection System Based on Evolving Decision Making.
In: 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2025), Glasgow, UK, 20-23 July 2025,
pp. 231-236.
ISBN 9798331517250
(doi: 10.1109/ICDCSW63273.2025.00045)
Tan, Zhuoran, Anagnostopoulos, Christos ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-6757 and Singer, Jeremy
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9462-6802
(2025)
OSPtrack: A Labeled Dataset Targeting Simulated Execution of Open-Source Software.
In: 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2025), Ottowa, Canada, 28-29 April 2025,
pp. 659-663.
ISBN 9798331501839
(doi: 10.1109/MSR66628.2025.00102)