Dr. Faqian Guan

Assistant Professor Master Supervisor

Email:  fqguan@cityu.edu.mo
Tel: (853)85902421
Office address:  Room S504, Stanley Ho Building, City University of Macau (Taipa)

Educational experience 

2025　 Doctor of Philosophy in Geoinformation Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Hubei, China 

2020　Master of Computer Application Technology, Fuzhou University, Fujian, China

2017　Bachelor of Network Engineering, Minnan Normal University, Fujian, China

Incumbent 

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Data Science, City University of Macau 

Research direction 

Artificial Intelligence Privacy and Security

Graph Neural Networks

Large Language Models

Research and publishing 

Faqian Guan, Tianqing Zhu, Wanlei Zhou, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo. Graph neural networks: a survey on the links between privacy and security[J]. Artificial Intelligence Review, 2024, 57(2): 40. (JCR Q1, IF 13.9)

Faqian Guan, Tianqing Zhu, Wenhan Chang, Wei Ren, Wanlei Zhou. Large Language Models Merging for Enhancing the Link Stealing Attack on Graph Neural Networks [J]. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2025. (JCR Q1, IF 7.5, CCF A)

Faqian Guan, Tianqing Zhu, Hanjin Tong, Wanlei Zhou. Attention-based Membership Inference Attacks on Graph Neural Network through Topological Features [J]. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2025. (JCR Q1, IF 7.5, CCF A)

Faqian Guan, Tianqing Zhu, Hanjin Tong, Wanlei Zhou. A realistic model extraction attack against graph neural networks[J]. Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024: 112144. (JCR Q1, IF 7.6)

Faqian Guan, Tianqing Zhu, Wanlei Zhou, Philip S. Yu. Topology-based Node-level Membership Inference Attacks on Graph Neural Networks [J]. IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2025. (JCR Q1, IF 5.7)

Faqian Guan, Tianqing Zhu, Hui Sun, Wanlei Zhou, Philip S. Yu. Large Language Models for Link Stealing Attacks Against Graph Neural Networks[J]. IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2024. (JCR Q1, IF 5.7)

Faqian Guan, Tianqing Zhu, Hanjin Tong, Wanlei Zhou. Topology modification against membership inference attack in Graph Neural Networks[J]. Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024, 305: 112642. (JCR Q1, IF 7.6)

Faqian Guan, Chunyan Yu, Suqiong Yang. A GAN model with self-attention mechanism to generate multiinstruments symbolic music[C]//2019 International joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN). IEEE, 2019: 1-6. (EI, CCF-C)

Hanjin Tong, Tianqing Zhu, Faqian Guan. Defense against graph Injection attack in graph neural networks[C]//2024 International Conference on Data Science in Cyberspace (DSC). (EI, Best Paper)