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Zhenyu Ning

Research Assistant Professor
Room 441A, South Tower, CoE Building, SUSTech, 1088 Xueyuan Ave, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China 518055
(+86)13774219743 | ningzy (at) sustech.edu.cn | https://ningzhenyu.github.io/

Research Interest

My Research interests are in different areas of security and privacy, including system security, mobile security, IoT security, transportation security, trusted execution environments, hardware-assisted security, transparent malware analysis, etc.

Education

• Ph.D in Computer Science, Aug 2015 ~ Apr 2020
  Wayne State University, MI, USA
• M.S. in Computer Science, Aug 2008 ~ Apr 2011
  Tongji University, Shanghai, China
• B.S. in Computer Science, Aug 2004 ~ Jun 2008
  Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Employment History

• Research Assistant Professor
  Jun 2020 ~ present
  Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

• Graduate Research or Teaching Assistant
  Aug 2015 ~ May 2020
  Wayne State University, MI, USA

• Senior Software Engineer
  May 2015 ~ Jul 2015
  Bolome Electronic Commerce, Shanghai, China

• Senior Software Engineer
  Sep 2012 ~ Apr 2015
  China UnionPay, Shanghai, China

• Assistant Software Engineer
  Apr 2011 ~ Sep 2012
  Huawei Technologies, Shanghai, China

Publications

* indicates these authors contribute equally to the paper.

• [TDSC’22] Revisiting ARM Debugging Features: Nailgun and Its Defense
  Zhenyu Ning, Chenxu Wang, Yinhua Chen, and Fengwei Zhang
  To Appear in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2022.

• [HASP’21] A Novel Memory Management for RISC-V Enclaves
  Haonan Li^*, Weijie Huang^*, Mingde Ren, Hongyi Lu, Zhenyu Ning, and Fengwei Zhang
  In Proceedings of the 10th Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy, in conjunction with the 54th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO’21), October, 2021.

• [ESORICS’20] HART: Hardware‑assisted Kernel Module Tracing on Arm
  Yunlan Du^*, Zhenyu Ning^*, Jun Xu, Zilong Wang, Yueh-Hsun Lin, Fengwei Zhang, Xinyu Xing, and Bing Mao
  In Proceedings of the 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, United Kingdom, September, 2020.

• [DSN’20] KShot: Live Kernel Patching with SMM and SGX
  Lei Zhou, Fengwei Zhang, Jinghui Liao, Zhenyu Ning, Jidong Xiao, Kevin Leach, Westley Weimer, and Guojun Wang
  To Appear in the 50th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Valencia, Spain, 2020.

• [JCDR’19] A Study of Using TEE on Edge Computing (基于边缘计算的可信执行环境研究)
  Zhenyu Ning, Fengwei Zhang, and Weisong Shi
  In Journal of Computer Research and Development (计算机研究与发展), Vol.56, No.7, pp.1441-1453, 2019.

• [DIMVA’19] Understanding the Security of Traffic Signal Infrastructure
  Zhenyu Ning, Fengwei Zhang, and Stephen Remias
  In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2019.

• [S&P’19] Understanding the Security of ARM Debugging Features
  Zhenyu Ning and Fengwei Zhang
  In Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, San Francisco, California, May, 2019.

• [TIFS’18] Hardware-assisted Transparent Tracing and Debugging on ARM
  Zhenyu Ning and Fengwei Zhang
  In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, Vol.14, No.6, pp.1595-1609, 2018.

• [EdgeSP’18] Preliminary Study of Trusted Execution Environments on Heterogeneous Edge Platforms
  Zhenyu Ning, Jinghui Liao, Fengwei Zhang, and Weisong Shi In Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in Edge Computing, in conjunction with the 3rd ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC’18), Bellevue, Washington, October, 2018.

• [DSN’18] DexLego: Reassembleable Bytecode Extraction for Aiding Static Analysis
  Zhenyu Ning and Fengwei Zhang
  In Proceedings of the 48th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Luxembourg, June, 2018.

• [Security’17] Ninja: Towards Transparent Tracing and Debugging on ARM
  Zhenyu Ning and Fengwei Zhang
  In Proceedings of the 26th USENIX Security Symposium, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August, 2017.

• [HASP’17] Position Paper: Challenges Towards Securing Hardware-assisted Execution Environments
  Zhenyu Ning, Fengwei Zhang, Weisong Shi, and Larry Shi
  In Proceedings of the Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy, In conjunction with the 44th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Toronto, ON, Canada, June, 2017.

Research Grants

• A Trusted Execution Environment Based on RISC-V Architecture
  National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 62102175
  2022.01-2024.12, 300,000 RMB, Principal Investigator

• Armory: Research on Hardware‑assisted Arm Enclave
  Ant Group
  2021.10-2022.10, 600,000 RMB, Principal Investigator

• Research on Secure EL2 of Arm Cloud Platforms
  Ant Group
  2021.03-2022.03, 520,000 RMB, Principal Investigator

Talks

• [CRVF’19] SecLabel: Enhancing RISC-V Platform Security with Labelled Architecture
  Zhenyu Ning, Yinqian Zhang, and Fengwei Zhang
  In China RISC-V Forum, Shenzhen, China, November, 2019.

• [MOSEC’19] Nailgun: Breaking the Privilege Isolation on ARM
  Zhenyu Ning and Fengwei Zhang
  In Mobile Security Conference, Shanghai, China, May, 2019.

• [DEFCON China’18] Transparent Malware Debugging on x86 and ARM
  Zhenyu Ning and Fengwei Zhang
  In DEFCON China, Beijing, China, May, 2018.

Poster

• Poster: SecLabel: Enhancing RISC-V Platform Security with Labelled Architecture
  Zhenyu Ning, Yinqian Zhang, and Fengwei Zhang
  In China RISC-V Forum (CRVF), Shenzhen, China, November, 2019.

• Poster: Enhancing ARM Platform Security with Hardware Tags
  Zhenyu Ning and Fengwei Zhang
  In the 40th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, San Francisco, California, May, 2019.

• Poster: Revealing True Behavior via Instruction-level Extraction and Reassembling on Android
  Zhenyu Ning and Fengwei Zhang
  In the IEEE Southeastern Michigan 2016 Spring Conference, Livonia, MI, April, 2016.

Teaching Experience

• Insturctor, CSC 4111 Laboratory for Software Engineering
  Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Fall, 2017.
• Teaching Assistant, CSC 4110 Software Engineering
  Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Fall, 2017.

Professional Services

Program Committee

• CCSW: ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop, 2020

Artifact Committee

• USENIX-Security: USENIX Security Symposium, 2021
• ACSAC: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2019, 2020

External Reviewer

• CCS: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2017, 2018, 2019
• ACSAC: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2017, 2018, 2019
• EuroSec: European Workshop on Systems Security, 2018, 2019

Reviewer

• TDSC: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2021
• Computers & Security: Elsevier Computer & Security, 2020, 2021
• TMC: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2020
• LOCS: IEEE Letters of the Computer Society, 2018

Awards

• Faculty Competitive for Graduate Research Assistantships Award, Wayne State University, 2019
• Student Travel Grant, IEEE S&P, 2019
• Student Travel Grant, IEEE/IFIP DSN, 2018