[09/04/2024] I am awarded the ACM CCS 2024 Student Travel Grant. Many thanks to the Student Grant Committee for the support and my advisor Trent Jaeger for the super strong and heartening recommendation letter!
[07/23/2024] The paper “Top of the Heap: Efficient Memory Error Protection of Safe Heap Objects” has been accepted to ACM CCS 2024.
[05/28/2024] The paper “OPTISAN: Using Multiple Spatial Error Defenses to Optimize Stack Memory Protection within a Budget” has been accepted to USENIX Security 2024.
[05/13/2024] Started my visiting scholar position at UC Riverside, and will participate in the DARPA AIxCC Event.
[02/17/2024] The paper “Comprehensive Memory Safety Validation: An Alternative Approach to Memory Safety” has been accepted by IEEE Security and Privacy.
[10/20/2023] Presented the paper “Assessing the Impact of Efficiently Protecting Ten Million Stack Objects from Memory Errors Comprehensively” at SecDev 2023.
[09/19/2023] Attended ARL CRA Capstone Final meeting at the University of Delaware.
[08/19/2023] Passed my PhD Comprehensive Exam, now I’m a PhD Candidate.
[08/11/2023] The paper “Assessing the Impact of Efficiently Protecting Ten Million Stack Objects from Memory Errors Comprehensively” has been accepted to SecDev 2023.
[08/02/2023] Attended and presented 2 demos at ARL CRA BootCamp 2023.
[06/24/2023] Attended HotOS 2023 at Providence, RI, USA.
[05/07/2023] Attended ARL CRA Research meeting at CMU, and presented the demo of the DataGuard framework.
[04/15/2023] The paper “Evolving Operating System Kernels Towards Secure Kernel-Driver Interfaces” has been accepted to HotOS 2023.
[01/23/2023] Attended ARL CRA Research meeting at Penn State.
[08/23/2022] The KSplit framework is covered by ACM TechNews and PSU Today.
[06/21/2022] The DataGuard framework is covered by PSU Today.
[05/16/2022] Started the internship at Samsung Research America.
[05/04/2022] 2 undergraduate students mentored by me graduated with Honor at Penn State.
[04/26/2022] Presented the paper “The Taming of the Stack: Isolating Stack Data from Memory Errors” at NDSS 2022.
[03/19/2022] The paper “KSplit: Automating Device Driver Isolation” has been accepted to OSDI 2022.
[02/01/2022] Served as reviewer for Transaction of Computers.
[11/12/2021] Talk at GLSD 2021 about the DataGuard Framework.
[09/15/2021] Passed my PhD Qualification Exam.
[08/07/2021] The paper “The Taming of the Stack: Isolating Stack Data from Memory Errors” has been accepted to NDSS 2022.
[07/12/2021] Invited talk at ARL CRA Webinar about stack memory safety.
[06/28/2021] Attending ARL CRA BootCamp.
[08/17/2020] Started my PhD journey at Penn State CSE.
[02/23/2020] Attended NDSS 2020 at San Diego, CA, USA. My first major conference experience.
[06/12/2019] The paper “Employing attack graphs for intrusion detection” has been accepted to NSPW 2019.