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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Publications: DriveFuzz: Discovering Autonomous Driving Bugs through Driving Quality-Guided Fuzzing (CCS 2022); ShadowAuth: Backward-Compatible Automatic CAN Authentication for Legacy ECUs (ACM ASIACCS 2022); PASAN: Detecting Peripheral Access Concurrency Bugs within Bare-Metal Embedded Applications (SEC 2021); SIGL: Securing Software Installations Through Deep Graph Learning (SEC 2021); Find My Sloths: Automated Comparative Analysis of How Real Enterprise Computers Keep Up with the Software Update Races (DIMVA 2021); Utrack: Enterprise User Tracking Based on OS-Level Audit Logs (CODASPY 2021); This is Why We Can’t Cache Nice Things: Lightning-Fast Threat Hunting using Suspicion Based Hierarchical Storage (ACSAC 2020); Vessels: Efficient and Scalable Deep Learning Prediction on Trusted Processors (SOCC 2020).
Research Experience
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Central Oklahoma; Director, Center for Cybersecurity Leaders, Education, and Research (CLEAR); Assistant Chair, Department of Computer Science; Assistant Director, Center for Research and Education in Interdisciplinary Computation (CREIC). Senior researcher and security team lead at NEC Laboratories America, working on multiple cybersecurity and computer system projects for nine years.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University; Advisor: Prof. Dongyan Xu; Thesis committee members: Prof. Xiangyu Zhang, Prof. Gene Spafford (Spaf), Prof. Sonia Fahmy.
Background
Research interests: System Security and Reliability, specifically in System Diagnosis, System Reliability Issues, End-host Security, System Provenance. Solving research problems with program analysis, runtime systems, operating system, and AI techniques.
Miscellany
Teaching: CMSC 4333/5333: Incident Analysis and Response I (Every Spring semester); CMSC 4343/5343: Cyber Operations (Every Fall semester); CMSC 3833: Computer Organization and Architecture II (Every semester); Service: Technical Program Committee (TPC) of NDSS 2026; Technical Program Chair of The 21th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Management and Applications (SERA 2025); TPC of The 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2023); Technical Program Chair of The 21th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Management and Applications (SERA 2023); Technical Program Chair of The 20th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Management and Applications (SERA 2022); TPC of The 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security 2022 (ESORICS 2022); TPC of The 17th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2022); TPC of The 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security 2021 (ESORICS 2021); TPC and Session Chair of The 16th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2021)