Experience

• Research Assistant, Aug. 2024 - Present
  SecArch & RSSys, Purdue University
  Advisors: Kazem Taram and Pedro Fonseca
  Evaluating scalability bottlenecks for different isolation techniques.
  • Explored scalability issues in virtualization environments, focusing on inter-VM/container scalability.
  • Conducted case study on Redis clusters in Kubernetes to observe scalability bottlenecks and performance degradation.
• Research Assistant, Jan. 2023 - Aug. 2023
  EFESLAB, University of Michigan
  Advisors: Baris Kasikci and Shuwen Deng
  Evaluating and assessing speculative gadgets in various applications and linux kernel.
  • Identified the Timing Condition of Spectre-PHT gadget.
  • Presented a systematic study and exploration of windowing power.
  • Proposed and implemented a new approach, which describes the timing condition with a DAG graph, models the windowing power with graph algorithms, and quantifies the gadget’s exploitability with runtime measurement.
  • Validated our approach and evaluated it against SOTA scanners on 2 micro-benchmarks, 6 userspace programs, and the Linux kernel. Identify 503 gadgets reported by SOTA scanners as unexploitable.
• Research Assistant, Aug. 2021 - Aug. 2022
  Network Measurement and System Lab, SJTU
  Advisor: Yibo Pi
  Optimizing the accuracy and coverage of large-scale network monitoring.
  • Challenged two root assumptions of conventional network monitoring practice with experiments.
  • Proposed and implemented a greedy end-to-end network monitoring approach.
  • Evaluated the accuracy, coverage and overhead of our approach.