Zhenyu Ning (宁振宇) Associate Professor College of Cyber Science and Technology 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]

• LIGHTeX: A Lightweight Framework for Extending Applications into Trusted Execution
  Zhenyu Ye, Zhe Tan, Lei Zhou, Debin Gao, Yaohua Wang, Zhenyu Ning*, Yupeng Hu*
  To Appear In IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2026. Impact Factor: 5.6.


• Building Confidential Accelerator Computing Environment for Arm CCA
  Chenxu Wang, Kun Lu, Fengwei Zhang*, Yunjie Deng, Kevin Leach, Jiannong Cao, Zhenyu Ning, Shoumeng Yan*, Tao Wei, and Zhengyu He
  In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Vol.23, No. 1, pp.1308-1325, 2026. Impact Factor: 7.05.


• Complementing Confidential Computing Environment for Applications on Arm CCA
  Yiming Zhang, Yuxin Hu, Zhenyu Ning, Fengwei Zhang*, Xiapu Luo*, Haoyang Huang, Shoumeng Yan, and Zhengyu He
  In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Vol.23, No. 1, pp.97-114, 2026. Impact Factor: 7.05.


• Coffer: An Efficient and Scalable TEE on RISC-V
  Mingde ren, Jiatong Chen, Ziquan Wang, Fengwei Zhang*, Zhenyu Ning*, and Heming Cui
  In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS), Vol.21, pp.1379-1392, 2025. Impact Factor: 7.231.


• Efficient Forward-Edge Control-Flow Integrity for COTS Binaries via Arm BTI
  Tai Yue, Kai Lu*, Zhenyu Ning*, Pengfei Wang, Lei Zhou, Xu Zhou, Yaohua Wang, Fengwei Zhang, and Gen Zhang
  In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS), Vol.20, pp.7137-7152, 2025. Impact Factor: 7.231.


• Armor: Protecting Software Against Hardware Tracing Techniques
  Tai Yue, Fengwei Zhang*, Zhenyu Ning, Pengfei Wang, Xu Zhou*, Kai Lu, and Lei Zhou
  In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS), Vol.19, pp.4247-4262, 2024. Impact Factor: 7.231.


• Efficiently Rebuilding Coverage in Hardware-Assisted Greybox Fuzzing
  Tai Yue, Yibo Jin, Fengwei Zhang*, Zhenyu Ning, Pengfei Wang*, Xu Zhou, and Kai Lu
  In Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), Palazzo della Salute in Padua, Italy, September 2024. [slides]


• BootRIST: Detecting and Isolating Mercurial Cores at the Booting Stage
  Yihao Luo, Yunjie Deng, Jingquan Ge, Zhenyu Ning, and Fengwei Zhang*
  In Proceedings of the 29th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Bydgoszcz, Poland, September 2024. [slides]


• 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. [slides]


• 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
  In Proceedings of the 54th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Brisbane, Australia, June 2024. [slides]

Current Students

Ph.D. Students

• Qilin Chen (co-advised with Prof. Yaohua Wang)

Master Students

• Yongxin Chen
• Jiajun Zhuang
• Gao Shu
• Juyang Ye (co-advised with Prof. Yaohua Wang)
• Donghan He (co-advised with Prof. Yupeng Hu)
• Jiaxin Yuan

Alumni

Ph.D. Students

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

Master Students

• Qihao Yang
• Tianyang Yin (co-advised with Prof. Yupeng Hu)
• Jialu Liu
• Yuwen Xin (co-advised with Prof. Yupeng Hu)

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