Fengwei Zhang Associate Professor Director, COMPASS Lab Department of Computer Science and Engineering Southern University of Science and Technology Contact: Innovation Park, Building 10, Room 501 1088 Xueyuan Ave, Nanshan District Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China 518055 Phone: (+86) (755) 88015160 Email: zhangfw [at] sustech dot edu dot cn Lab: Innovation Park, Building 10, Suite 501 [Curriculum Vitae] |
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As of September 2019, I am a tenure-track Associate Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). My primary research interests are in the areas of systems security, with a focus on trustworthy execution, hardware-assisted security, debugging transparency, transportation security, and plausible deniability encryption.
Before joining SUSTech, I spent four wonderful years as an Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science at Wayne State University (WSU). I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from George Mason University in April 2015.

    My research group: [COMPASS@SUSTech] [COMPASS@WSU].
I am looking for graduate students, postdocs, undergraduate students to work with me on exciting projects in systems security. If you are interested, please send me your CV. Multiple fully funded positions are available [Hire Link, 招聘启示] [2020 SUSTech PhD Scholarship For International Students].
Multiple Postdoc Openings.
Teaching
- Spring 2021: CS 102A, Introduction to Computer Programming
- Fall 2020: CS 315, Computer Security
- Previous Semesters: [full list]
Selected Recent Publications [full list]
Authors with an underline "_" is student/scholar mentored by me in my lab; * indicates the corresponding author.-
An Attribute-Isolated Secure Communication Architecture for Intelligent Connected Vehicles
Mu Han, Ailan Wan, Fengwei Zhang , and Shidian Ma
To Appear InIEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicle ( , 2020. Impact Factor: 7.420.T-IV'20 ) -
DAENet: Making Strong Anonymity Scale in a Fully Decentralized Network
Tianxiang Shen, Jianyu Jiang, Yunpeng Jiang, Xusheng Chen, Ji Qi, Shixiong Zhao, Fengwei Zhang* , Xiapu Luo, and Heming Cui*
To Appear InIEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing ( , 2020. Impact Factor: 6.404.TDSC'20 ) -
E-SGX: Cache Side-Channel Protection for Intel SGX on Untrusted OS
Fan Lang, Huorong Li, Wei Wang, Jingqiang Lin, Fengwei Zhang , Wuqiong Pan, and Qiongxiao Wang
To Appear In Proceedings of the16th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology ( , Guangzhou, China, December, 2020.Inscrypt'20 )
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SEED: Confidential Big Data Workflow Scheduling with Intel SGX Under Deadline Constraints [slides] [video]
Ishtiaq Ahmed, Saeid Mofrad, Shiyong Lu, Changxin Bai, Fengwei Zhang* , and Dunren Che
In Proceedings of theIEEE International Conference on Services Computing ( , Beijing, China, October, 2020.SCC'20 )
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HART: Hardware-assisted Kernel Module Tracing on Arm [slides] [1-minute video] [15-minutes video]
Yunlan Duˆ, Zhenyu Ningˆ, Jun Xu, Zilong Wang, Yueh-Hsun Lin, Fengwei Zhang* , Xinyu Xing, and Bing Mao
In Proceedings of the25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security ( , Guildford, United Kingdom, September, 2020. (ˆ These authors contributed equally to this work).ESORICS'20 )
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Uranus: Simple, Efficient SGX Programming and Its Applications
Jianyu Jiang, Xusheng Chen, Tze On Li, Cheng Wang, Tianxiang Shen, Shixiong Zhao, Heming Cui, Cho-Li Wang, Fengwei Zhang
In Proceedings of the15th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security ( , Taipei, Taiwan, October, 2020.AsiaCCS'20 )
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KShot: Live Kernel Patching with SMM and SGX [slides] [1-minute video] [video in Chinese]
Lei Zhou, Fengwei Zhang* , Jinghui Liao, Zhenyu Ning, Jidong Xiao, Kevin Leach, Westley Weimer, and Guojun Wang
In Proceedings of the50th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks ( , Valencia, Spain, June, 2020 (Runner-up Best Paper Award, 3 out of 291 submissions).DSN'20 )
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RansomSpector: An Introspection-Based Approach to Detect Crypto Ransomware
Fei Tang, Boyang Ma, Jinku Li, Fengwei Zhang , Jipeng Su, Jianfeng Ma
To Appear InElsevier Computers & Security ( , 2020. Impact Factor: 3.579.CompSec'20 ) -
Nailgun: Breaking Privilege Isolation on ARM, 钉枪:突破ARM特权隔离
Fengwei Zhang and Zhenyu Ning, 张锋巍,宁振宇
InCommunications of China Computer Federation ( ,《中国计算机学会通讯》Vol.16, No.1, pp.51-54, 2020.CCCF'20 ) -
SecDATAVIEW: A Secure Big Data Workflow Management System for Heterogeneous Computing Environments [slides]
[Artifacts Evaluated – Functional]
[Source Code]
Saeid Mofrad, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Shiyong Lu, Ping Yang, Heming Cui, and Fengwei Zhang*
In Proceedings of The35th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference ( , San Juan, Puerto Rico, December, 2019.ACSAC'19 )
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Defeating Speculative-Execution Attacks on SGX with HyperRace
Guoxing Chen, Mengyuan Li, Fengwei Zhang , and Yinqian Zhang
In Proceedings of The2019 IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing ( , Hangzhou, China, November, 2019.IDSC'19 )
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SecLabel: Enhancing RISC-V Platform Security with Labelled Architecture [slides]
Zhenyu Ning, Yinqian Zhang, and Fengwei Zhang*
In The1st China RISC-V Forum ( , Shenzhen, China, November, 2019.CRVF'19 )
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A Study of the Multiple Sign-in Feature in Web Applications
Marwan Albahar, Xing Gao, Gaby G. Dagher, Daiping Liu, Fengwei Zhang , and Jidong Xiao
In Proceedings of The15th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks ( , Short paper, Orlando, Florida, October, 2019.SecureComm'19 )
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Nighthawk: Transparent System Introspection from Ring -3 [slides]
Lei Zhou, Jidong Xiao, Kevin Leach, Westley Weimer, Fengwei Zhang* , and Guojun Wang
In Proceedings of The24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security ( , Luxembourg, September, 2019.ESORICS'19 )
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Understanding the Security of Traffic Signal Infrastructure [slides]
Zhenyu Ning, Fengwei Zhang* , and Stephen Remias
In Proceedings of The16th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment ( , Gothenburg, Sweden, June, 2019.DIMVA'19 )
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Understanding the Security of ARM Debugging Features [slides]
Zhenyu Ning and Fengwei Zhang
In Proceedings of The40th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy ( , San Francisco, California, May, 2019.S&P'19 )
Nailgun project is online! [Web] [PoC] [Video1] [Video2] CVE-2018-18068. -
Hardware-assisted Transparent Tracing and Debugging on ARM [bib]
Zhenyu Ning and Fengwei Zhang
InIEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security ( , Vol.14, No.6, pp.1595-1609, 2019. Impact Factor: 5.824 (11/2018).TIFS'19 ) -
Methods and Systems for Increased Debugging Transparency [bib]
Fengwei Zhang , Kevin Leach, Angelos Stavrou, and Haining Wang
U.S. Patent Number 10,127,137. Issued on November 13, 2018.
Recent Professional Services
Program Organization
- [ML4CS]: General Chair, International Conference on Machine Learning for Cyber Security, 2020.
- [IWCSS]: Program Co-Chair, International Workshop on Cyberspace Security, 2019.
- [CCSW]: Publicity Chair, ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop, 2017.
Program Committee Membership
- [S&P]: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (“Oakland”), 2021.
- [USENIX-Security]: USENIX Security Symposium, 2021.
- [AsiaCCS]: ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2021.
- [ARES]: International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 2020.
- [HPBD&IS]: International Conference on High Performance Big Data and Intelligent Systems, 2020.
- [AutoSec]: International Workshop on Automotive and Autonomous Vehicle Security, 2021.
- [SecureComm]: EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, 2018.
- [ICICS]: International Conference on Information and Communications Security, 2018.
- [IoTSSP]: ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Mobile IoT Sensing, Security, and Privacy, 2018.
- [ICC]: IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2018.
- [CCSW]: ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop, 2017.
- [HASP]: Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy, 2017.
- [ICPADS]: IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2016.
- [DependSys]: Symposium on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications, 2016.
Artifact Evaluation Committee
- [USENIX-Security]: USENIX Security Symposium, 2020.
- [WOOT]: USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies, 2019.