Zhenyu Ning (宁振宇)Associate ProfessorCollege of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Contact: Room 661, Building of CSEE 2 South Lushan Road, Yuelu District Changsha, Hunan, China, 410082
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About me
I am an Associate Professor at the College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at Hunan University. I was a Research Assistant Professor at
the Southern University of Science and Technology from June 2020 to April 2022. I earned my Ph.D. degree from the Department of
Computer Science at Wayne State University in 2020. Before starting my Ph.D., I had 4 years of experience in the industry.
I completed my Master's degree and Bachelor's degree at Tongji University in 2011 and 2008, respectively.
Research
My primary research interests are in different areas of security and privacy, including system security, mobile security, IoT security, transportation security,
trusted execution environment, and hardware-assisted security.
I am always looking for self-motivated master students and postdocs who are interested in system security and determined to publish high-quality research papers.
Please feel free to shoot me an email and let's enjoy research together.
News
Recent Publications [All]
ˆ indicates equal contribution; * indicates the corresponding author.
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CAGE: Complementing Arm CCA with GPU Extensions
Chenxu Wang, Fengwei Zhang*, Yunjie Deng, Kevin Leach, Jiannong Cao, Zhenyu Ning, Shoumeng Yan, and Zhengyu He
To Appear In 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] -
RetTag: Hardware-assisted Return Address Integrity on RISC-V
Yu Wang, Jinting Wu, Tai Yue, Zhenyu Ning*, and Fengwei Zhang
In Proceedings of the 15th European Workshop on Systems Security (EuroSec), in conjunction with the European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Rennes, France, April 2022. [slides] -
A Novel Memory Management for RISC-V Enclaves
Haonan Liˆ, Weijie Huangˆ, Mingde Ren, Hongyi Lu, Zhenyu Ning*, Heming Cui, and Fengwei Zhang
In Proceedings of the Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP), in conjunction with the 54th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), October 2021. [slides][video]
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