Fengwei Zhang Associate Professor Director, COMPASS Lab Department of Computer Science and Engineering Southern University of Science and Technology Contact: Room 515, South Tower, College of Engineering 1088 Xueyuan Ave, Nanshan District Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China 518055 Phone: (+86) (755) 88015160 Email: zhangfw [at] sustech dot edu dot cn Lab: Room 441A, South Tower, College of Eng.

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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].


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] [SUSTech Ph.D. Scholarship For International Students].

Multiple Postdoc Openings.

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Teaching

• Fall 2023: CS 315, Computer Security
• Spring 2023: CS 109, Introduction to Computer Programming

• Previous Semesters: [full list]

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Selected Recent Publications [full list]

Authors with "_" is student/scholar in my lab or courses; ˆ indicates equal contribution; * indicates the corresponding author.

• CAGE: Complementing Arm CCA with GPU Extensions  
  Chenxu Wang, Fengwei Zhang*, Yunjie Deng, Kevin Leach, Jiannong Cao, Zhenyu Ning, Shoumeng Yan, and Zhengyu He
  To Appear In Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, (NDSS'24), San Diego, CA, February 2024.
  


• Building a Lightweight Trusted Execution Environment for Arm GPUs  
  Chenxu Wang, Yunjie Deng, Zhenyu Ning, Kevin Leach, Jin Li, Shoumeng Yan, Zhengyu He, Jiannong Cao, and Fengwei Zhang*
  To Appear In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC'23), 2023. Impact Factor: 7.329.
  


• Trusted Execution Environment: Research and Prospect, 可信执行环境：现状与展望  
  Fengwei Zhang, Lei Zhou, Yiming Zhang, Mingde Ren, Yunjie Deng; 张锋巍, 周雷, 张一鸣, 任明德, 邓韵杰
  To Appear in Journal of Computer Research and Development《计算机研究与发展》Vol.61, 2024.
  


• Travelling the Hypervisor and SSD: A Tag-Based Approach Against Crypto Ransomware with Fine-Grained Data Recovery  
  Boyang Ma, Yilin Yang, Jinku Li, Fengwei Zhang, Wenbo Shen, Yajin Zhou, Jianfeng Ma
  To Appear In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'23), Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2023.
  


• Hardware-assisted Live Kernel Function Updating on Intel Platforms  
  Lei Zhou, Fengwei Zhang*, Kevin Leach, Xuhua Ding, Zhenyu Ning, Guojun Wang, and Jidong Xiao
  To Appear In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC'23), 2023. Impact Factor: 7.329.
  


• Raft: Hardware-assisted Dynamic Information Flow Tracking for Runtime Protection on RISC-V  [slides]
  Yu Wang, Jinting Wu, Haodong Zheng, Zhenyu Ning, Boyuan He, Fengwei Zhang*
  In Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID'23), Hong Kong, October, 2023.
  


• RingGuard: Guard io_uring with eBPF  [slides]
  Wanning Heˆ, Hongyi Luˆ, Fengwei Zhang*, and Shuai Wang*
  In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on eBPF and Kernel Extensions (eBPF'23), in conjunction with the ACM SIGCOMM'23, New York City, NY, September 2023.


• Shelter: Extending Arm CCA with Isolation in User Space  [slides]
  Yiming Zhangˆ, Yuxin Huˆ, Zhenyu Ning, Fengwei Zhang*, Xiapu Luo, Haoyang Huang, Shoumeng Yan, and Zhengyu He
  In Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security'23), Anaheim, CA, August 2023.
  


• Alligator In Vest: A Practical Failure-Diagnosis Framework via Arm Hardware Features  [slides]
  Yiming Zhang, Yuxin Hu, Haonan Li, Wenxuan Shi, Zhenyu Ning, Xiapu Luo, and Fengwei Zhang
  In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA'23), Seattle, Washington, July 2023.
  


• FlushTime: Towards Mitigating Flush-based Cache Attacks via Collaberating Flush Instructions & Timers on ARMv8-A   [slides]
  Jingquan Ge and Fengwei Zhang*
  In Proceedings of the 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS'23), Melbourne, Australia, July 2023.
  


• Revisiting ARM Debugging Features: Nailgun and Its Defense  
  Zhenyu Ning, Chenxu Wang, Yinhua Chen, Fengwei Zhang*, and Jiannong Cao
  In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC'23), Vol.20, No.1, pp.574-589, 2023. Impact Factor: 6.404.
  


• StrongBox: A GPU TEE on Arm Endpoints  [slides]
  Yunjie Dengˆ, Chenxu Wangˆ, Shunchang Yu, Shiqing Liu, Zhenyu Ning, Kevin Leach, Jin Li, Shoumeng Yan, Zhengyu He, Jiannong Cao, and Fengwei Zhang*
  In Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'22), Los Angeles, CA, November 2022.
  


• Raven: A Novel Kernel Debugging Tool on RISC-V  [slides]
  Hongyi Lu, Fengwei Zhang*
  In Proceedings of the 59th IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC'22), San Francisco, CA, July 2022.
  


• SMILE: Secure Memory Introspection for Live Enclave  [slides]
  Lei Zhou, Xuhua Ding, Fengwei Zhang*
  In Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P'22), San Francisco, CA, May 2022.
  

Recent Professional Services and Memberships

Program Organization

[CCS]: Proceedings Co-Chair, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2022, 2024.

[ML4CS]: General Chair, International Conference on Machine Learning for Cyber Security, 2020.

[EuroSec]: Publicity Chair, European Workshop on Systems Security, 2018, 2019.

[IWCSS]: Program Co-Chair, International Workshop on Cyberspace Security, 2019.

[CCSW]: Publicity Chair, ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop, 2017.

Program Committee

[S&P]: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (“Oakland”), 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

[USENIX-Security]: USENIX Security Symposium, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

[CCS]: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023.

[NDSS]: ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2023, 2024.

[DAC]: IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, 2022, 2023, 2024.

[ACSAC]: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.

[DSN]: IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024.

[ESORICS]: European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, 2020, 2021, 2023.

[EuroS&P]: IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2024.

[AsiaCCS]: ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2021, 2022.

[SEED]: IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design, 2024.

[WiSec]: ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, 2019, 2020, 2022.

[VehicleSec]: Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy, 2023.

[EthiCS]: International Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security, 2023.

[ARES]: International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 2020.

[HPBD&IS]: International Conference on High Performance Big Data and Intelligent Systems, 2020.

[EuroSec]: European Workshop on Systems Security, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.

[AutoSec]: International Workshop on Automotive and Autonomous Vehicle Security, 2021, 2022.

[MASS]: IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, 2018, 2019.

[SecureComm]: EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, 2018, 2023.

[ICICS]: International Conference on Information and Communications Security, 2018, 2021.

Artifact Evaluation Committee

[USENIX-Security]: USENIX Security Symposium, 2020.

[ACSAC]: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2019, 2020, 2022.

[WOOT]: USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies, 2019.

Professional Membership

• ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, Senior Member.

• CCF, China Computer Federation, Senior Member.

• IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Senior Member.

• USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association, Member.

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Thesis

• Using Hardware Isolated Execution Environments for Securing Systems  [bib]