Zhenyu Ning (宁振宇) Associate Professor College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Contact: Room 661, Building of CSEE 2 South Lushan Road, Yuelu District Changsha, Hunan, China, 410082 Email:

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Recent Publications [All]

• FortifyPatch: Towards Tamper-resistant Live Patching in Linux-based Hypervisor
  Zhenyu Ye, Lei Zhou, Fengwei Zhang, Wenqiang Jin, Zhenyu Ning*, Yupeng Hu*, and Zheng Qin
  In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), Vienna, Austria, September 2024.


• BFTRAND: Low-latency Random Number Provider for BFT Smart Contracts
  Jinghui Liao, Borui Gong, Wenhai Sun, Fengwei Zhang*, Zhenyu Ning, Man Ho Allen Au, and Weisong Shi
  To Appear In the 54th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Brisbane, Australia, June 2024.


• CAGE: Complementing Arm CCA with GPU Extensions
  Chenxu Wang, Fengwei Zhang*, Yunjie Deng, Kevin Leach, Jiannong Cao, Zhenyu Ning, Shoumeng Yan, and Zhengyu He
  In Proceedings of the 31st Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 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), 2024. Impact Factor: 7.329.


• Raft: Hardware-assisted Dynamic Information Flow Tracking for Runtime Protection on RISC-V
  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), Hong Kong, October, 2023.


• Shelter: Extending Arm CCA with Isolation in User Space
  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), Anaheim, CA, August 2023. [slides]


• 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), 2023. Impact Factor: 7.329.


• Alligator In Vest: A Practical Failure-Diagnosis Framework via Arm Hardware Features
  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), Seattle, Washington, July 2023. [slides]


• 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), Vol.20, No.1, pp.574-589, 2023. Impact Factor: 6.404.


• StrongBox: A GPU TEE on Arm Endpoints
  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), Los Angeles, CA, November 2022. [slides]

Current Students

Ph.D. Students

• Zhenyu Ye (co-advised with Prof. Yupeng Hu)

Master Students

• Qihao Yang
• Jialu Liu

Alumni

• Yuwen Xin (co-advised with Prof. Yupeng Hu)

We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
— Albus Dumbledore