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Xiangyu Zhang

Samuel Conte Professor
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University
Phone:765-496-9415
E-mail: xyzhang at cs.purdue.edu

Education

PHD: 9/2006	Computer Science Dept., the University of Arizona
MS: 6/2001	Computer Science Dept., University of Science & Technology of China
BS: 6/1998	Computer Science Dept., University of Science & Technology of China

Awards

CSAW 2021 Best Applied Security Paper Award TOP-10 Finalists.
2019 ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award on OOPLSA.
CSAW 2019 Best Applied Security Paper Award TOP-10 Finalists.
2017 USENIX Security Distinguished Paper Award.
2016 NDSS Distinguished Paper Award.
CSAW 2015 Best Applied Security Paper Award TOP-10 Finalists.
2015 College of Science Graduate Student Mentoring Award, Purdue University
2015 CCS Best Paper Award.
University Scholar, 2014-present, Purdue University
2014 USENIX Security Best Student Paper Award.
2013 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award and Best Paper Award in ASE.
2009 NSF Career Award.
2006 ACM SIGPLAN Dissertation Award.
2003 ICSE Distinguished Paper Award.

Research Interest

My current research interest lies in AI security, software security, program analysis and software engineering. Half of my group is working on various AI model security problems such as backdoor scanning, adversarial attack, model inversion, and secure applications of these models in robotic vehicles. In the IARPA TrojAI AI backdoor scanning competition (2020-now), the team led by me and my former student Shiqing Ma (under the team name Perspecta-PurdueRutgers) ranks top on the leader-board for many rounds. The other half of my group is working on software security, analysis and software engineering challenges, such as vulnerability identification, reverse engineering, malware analysis, attack forensics, and use of AI in scurity/software engineering.

Publications

Full list

Current PhD Students

Hongjun Choi (on market)
I Luk Kim
Yingqi Liu
Sayali Kate
Guanhong Tao
Le Yu
Shengwei An
Zhuo Zhang
Qiuling Xu
Yu Shi
Yapeng Ye
Xuwei Liu
Zhiyuan Cheng
Guangyu Shen
Yunshu Mao
Xiangzhe Xu
Shiwei Feng
Siyuan Cheng
Junyang Shao
Xuan Zhou
I also work with Kaiyuan Zhang, Xuan Chen, and Chanwoo Bae.

Current Visitors

Current Post Doc

Qingkai Shi

Former Post Doc

Hongyu Liu (Researcher at Huawei Galois Lab, China)
Mijung Kim (Assistant Professor at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Yousra Aafer (Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo, Canada)
Wei You (Associate Professor at Renmin University, China)
Juan Zhai (Assistant Teaching Professor at Rutgers University)
Peng Liu (IBM T.J. Watson and then Google)

Former students

Hongjun Choi (Assistant Professor at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology)
Fei Wang (Facebook)
Dohyeong Kim (Google)
Fei Peng (Apple)
Wenchuan Lee (Apple)
Shiqing Ma (Assistant Professor at University of Rutgers)
Yonghwi Kwon (John Knight Career Enhancement Assistant Professor at University of Virginia, NSF Career Awardee, co-advised with Dongyan Xu)
Weihang Wang (Assistant Professor at Southern California, NSF Career Awardee, co-advised with Patrick Eugster)
Jianjun Huang (Assistant Professor at Renmin University, China)
Brendan Saltaformmagio(Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech, Recipient of ACM SIGACT Distinguished Dissertation Award 2017, co-advised with Dongyan Xu)
Kyu Hyung Lee (Associate Professor at University of Georgia, co-advisded with Dongyan Xu)
Chung Hwan Kim (Assistant Professor at University of Texas at Dallas, co-advised with Dongyan Xu)
Zhui Deng(Apple, co-advised with Dongyan Xu)
Tao Bao(Google)
Yunhui Zheng(Research Staff Member at IBM Research, then Co-Founder and CTO of sec3 (security for Web 3))
William N. Sumner (Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Vinai Sundaram (co-advised with Patrick Eugster, Co-Founder of SensorHound Innovations LLC )
Dasarath Weeratunge ( Intel Lab, co-advised with Suresh Jagannanthan)
Zhiqiang Lin (co-advised with Dongyan Xu, Professor at Ohio State University, NSF Career Awardee and Airforce Young Investigator Awardee)
Mingwu Zhang (co-advised with Prof. Prabhakar, Microsoft)
Bin Xin ( Google)

Former Visitors

Chonghua Wang, PhD student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (2015-2016)
Zhaogui Xu, PhD student, Nanjing University (2014-2016)
Lin Chen, Associate Professor, Nanjing University (2015-2016)
Zhifei Chen, PhD Student, Nanjing University (2015)
Chang-Ai Sun, Professor, University of Science and Technology Beijing (2014-2015)
Lei Xu, Associate Professor, Nanjing University (2014-2015)
Juan Zhai, PhD Student, Nanjing University (2014-2015)
Hao Sun, PhD Student, Nanjing University (2014)
Wanying Ma, PhD student, Nanjing University, China (2016-2017)
Zhenhao Tang, PhD student, Nanjing University, China (2016-2017)
Yang Zhang, Associate Professor, Hebei University of Sci. and Tech., China (2016-2018)
Yuan Zhuang, PhD student, Nanjing University, China (2019-2020)

Teaching and Reading Group

Recent Professional Activities

PC chair: ISSTA'21 PC member: CCS, USENIX Security, ICSE, FSE
Associate Editor: TSE (2015-2021)

Personal Interest

Soccer is my favorite. I still play twice a week (timestamp: 12/30/2021).