About
- I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas, Dallas
- I earned my PhD from Computer Science Department of Purdue University in 2011
- I established, and am directing the Systems and Software Security (S3) Lab under the Cyber Security Research and Education Center
- I am also the technical advisor of the UTD-CSG
- The best way to reach me is through my email:
- My office: ECSS 3.701
- Phone: (972)-883-4244
- Fax: (972)-883-2399
- Mail Address:
Zhiqiang Lin Department of Computer Science, EC31 The University of Texas at Dallas 800 W. Campbell RD Richardson, TX 75080
Research
- Current Interests:
- Software Security (binary code analysis and its applications to vulnerability discovery, malicious code analysis, software hardening, and binary code reuses in new applications) [ICDCS'13, ACSAC'12, CCS'12, DFRWS'12, NDSS'10, DSN'10, NDSS'09, NDSS'08, FSE'08, DSN'08].
- Systems Security (protecting OS kernel control and data integrity) [ISCA'13, DSN'13, VEE'13, SOCC'12, S&P'12, NDSS'11]
- Cloud Computing (and Virtualization) (enhancing cloud security and the virtual machine management in the cloud) [ISCA'13, VEE'13, SOCC'12, S&P'12, NDSS'11]
- Memory Data Analysis (for Introspection, Digital Forensics) (data structure guided memory as well as disk data analysis) [ISCA'13, DSN'13, SOCC'12, DFRWS'12, NDSS'12, NDSS'11, NDSS'10]
- Groups: S3 Lab
- I am (always) looking for self-motivated students with solid system (OS, virtualization, compiler, machine code) as well as security background. Interested students who wish to purse a PhD under my direction please drop me an email.
- Recent Publications [Complete list]
- "CPU Transparent Protection of OS Kernel and Hypervisor Integrity with Programmable DRAM"
- "AUTOVAC: Towards Automatically Extracting System Resource Constraints and Generating Vaccines for Malware Immunization"
- "Manipulating Semantic Values in Kernel Data Structures: Attack Assessments and Implications"
- "Exterior: Using a Dual-VM Based External Shell for Guest-OS Introspection, Configuration, and Recovery"
- "Securing Untrusted Code via Compiler-Agnostic Binary Rewriting" (Outstanding Student Paper Award)
- "OS-Sommelier: Memory-Only Operating System Fingerprinting in the Cloud"
- "Binary Stirring: Self-randomizing Instruction Addresses of Legacy x86 Binary Code"
- "Bin-Carver: Automatic Recovery of Binary Executable Files"
- "Space Traveling across VM: Automatically Bridging the Semantic Gap in Virtual Machine Introspection via Online Kernel Data Redirection"
Teaching
- Spring 2013 CS 4393: Computer and Network Security
- Fall 2012 CS 6324: Information Security
- Spring 2012 CS 6V81-005: Systems security and binary code analysis
- Fall 2011 CS 6V81-005: Advanced digital forensics and data reverse engineering
Service
- Panelist: NSF proposal review panels, 2012
- Publication Chair: IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2012
- TPC Member:
- IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2014
- ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2013
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2013
- IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2013
- International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), 2013
- International Workshop on Security in Embedded Systems and Smartphones (SESP), 2013
- Annual Digital Forensics Research Conference (DFRWS), 2013
- International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), 2012
- IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2011, 2012
- IEEE Services Workshop on Security and Privacy Engineering (SPE), 2012, 2013
- Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP), 2012, 2013
- IEEE Information Assurance Workshop (IAW), 2007