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I am a Postdoc at Dr. Gary Tan’s group at Penn State CSE. I defended my dissertation and will officially receive my Ph.D. diploma from the Computer Science and Engineering Department at The Pennsylvania State University at the end of Spring 2025. I am very fortunate to be advised by Dr. Trent Jaeger and Dr. Jack Sampson. I also work closely with Dr. Mathias Payer at EPFL and Dr. Zhiyun Qian at UC Riverside.
Research Interests
My primary area of expertise lies in advancing the field of software security, program hardening, static/dynamic program analysis, automatic vulnerability detection, exploit generation, and reverse engineering. My research is driven by the goal of contributing to the development of robust, effective, and efficient defenses against memory-related vulnerabilities. To be more specific, my research aims to ensure the security of systems and software while maintaining cost-effectiveness. I’m dedicated to addressing the evolving challenges in software security that arise from emerging features and the continuous development of programs. My ultimate objective is to strengthen systems against the ever-present cyber threats. Recently, I have also been exploring the AR/VR Security spaces.
Publications
3 papers are in submission and currently under reviewing process.
SoK: Challenges and Paths Toward Memory Safety for eBPF PDF
Kaiming Huang, Mathias Payer, Zhiyun Qian, Jack Sampson, Gang Tan, Trent Jaeger.
IEEE S&P 2025
SoK: Understanding the Attack Surface in Device Driver Isolation Frameworks PDF
Yongzhe Huang, Kaiming Huang, Matthew Ennis, Vikram Narayanan, Anton Burtsev, Trent Jaeger, Gang Tan.
Arxiv
Top of the Heap: Efficient Memory Error Protection of Safe Heap Objects PDF
Kaiming Huang, Mathias Payer, Zhiyun Qian, Jack Sampson, Gang Tan, Trent Jaeger.
ACM CCS 2024
OPTISAN: Using Multiple Spatial Error Defenses to Optimize Stack Memory Protection within a Budget PDF
Rahul George, Mingming Chen, Kaiming Huang, Zhiyun Qian, Thomas La Porta, Trent Jaeger.
USENIX Security 2024
Comprehensive Memory Safety Validation: An Alternative Approach to Memory Safety PDF
Kaiming Huang, Mathias Payer, Zhiyun Qian, Jack Sampson, Gang Tan, Trent Jaeger.
IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine
Assessing the Impact of Efficiently Protecting Ten Million Stack Objects from Memory Errors Comprehensively PDF
Kaiming Huang, Jack Sampson, Trent Jaeger.
SecDev 2023
Evolving Operating System Kernels Towards Secure Kernel-Driver Interfaces PDF
Anton Burtsev, Vikram Narayanan, Yongzhe Huang, Kaiming Huang, Gang Tan, Trent Jaeger.
HotOS 2023
KSplit: Automating Device Driver Isolation PDF
Yongzhe Huang, Vikram Narayanan, David Detweiler, Kaiming Huang, Gang Tan, Trent Jaeger, Anton Burtsev.
OSDI 2022
The Taming of the Stack: Isolating Stack Data from Memory Errors PDF
Kaiming Huang, Yongzhe Huang, Mathias Payer, Zhiyun Qian, Jack Sampson, Gang Tan, Trent Jaeger.
NDSS 2022
Employing attack graphs for intrusion detection PDF
Frank Capobianco, Rahul George, Kaiming Huang, Trent Jaeger, Srikanth Krishnamurthy, Zhiyun Qian, Mathias Payer, Paul Yu.
NSPW 2019