Dr. Xinran Li | Artificial Intelligence | Editorial Board Member
Dr. Xinran Li | University of Shanghai for Science and Technology | China
Dr. Xinran Li is an active researcher specializing in multimedia information security, perceptual image hashing, information hiding, and artificial intelligence security. She has established a strong publication record with more than twenty peer-reviewed papers, including fifteen SCI-indexed works and multiple IEEE Transactions publications. Her contributions span robust perceptual hashing, encrypted-domain image hashing, steganography analysis, secure multimedia processing, and feature-fusion methods for image authentication. She has participated in several funded research projects and maintains interdisciplinary collaborations reflected through co-authored journal and conference papers. Her work has earned over forty citations, demonstrating growing global impact. She serves as a reviewer for high-quality venues and is a member of prominent professional societies, contributing to ongoing advancements in secure multimedia computing.
Profile: Orcid
Featured Publications:
Xinran Li, & Zichi Wang. (2024). Vaccine for digital images against steganography. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 21340.
Xinran Li, Zichi Wang, Guorui Feng, Xinpeng Zhang, & Chuan Qin. (2024). Perceptual image hashing using orthogonal moments feature fusion. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 26, 10041–10054.
Xinran Li, Chuan Qin, Zichi Wang, Zhenxing Qian, & Xinpeng Zhang. (2022). Unified performance evaluation method for perceptual image hashing. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 17, 1404–1419.
Xinran Li, Mengqi Guo, Zichi Wang, & Chuan Qin. (2024). Robust image hashing in encrypted domain. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 8(1), 670–683.
Zichi Wang, Xinpeng Zhang, & Xinran Li. (2025). Untraceable steganography: Towards the anonymity of steganographer. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 32, 956–960.


Graduate Student in Progress (Computer Science and Engineering)
Researcher in Mine Hoist Fault Analysis and Knowledge Graphs



Best Research Contribution Award for advancements in NLP-based fault diagnostics.
Innovation in AI Award for hyper-relational knowledge graph applications.
Outstanding Researcher for publications on hierarchical reinforcement learning.
Certificate of Excellence for contributions to link prediction methods.
“Utilizing Large Language Models for Hyper Knowledge Graph Construction in Mine Hoist Fault Analysis” – 2024, cited by 0, 
“Research on Fault Diagnosis of Mine Hoists Based on Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning” – 2024, cited by 0.