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Xiangyu Zhang

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

2019 ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award on OOPLSA.
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 research interest lies in program analysis, security, deep learning security, dependability and interpretability. The following lists the main projects I currently have.

Deep learning model security, including defending against adversarial sample attacks and model hardening, from the interpretability perspective ([NDSS'19], [NIPS'18], [NDSS'18])
Deep learning model testing and debugging by analyzing model internals, addressing problems such as over-fitting, under-fitting, and sample biases from the program analysis prespective ([FSE'18], [FSE'17])
Data processing program (e.g., numerical programs) dependability ([CGO'19],[OOPSLA'15])
Probabilistic program analysis, especially analysis for native code without sources. These analyses feature using probabilistic graph models to deal with uncertainty ([ ICSE'18], [ FSE'18], [FSE'16])
Robotic system (e.g., drones and auto-driving cars) secuity and dependability ([CCS'18], [NDSS'18], [FSE'18], [ICRA'18])
Security vulnerability detection, e.g., fuzzing, ([S&P'19],[CCS'18],[NDSS'18]) and malware analysis ([USENIX SEC'14], [CCS'15], [ASE'18], [WWW'17])
Security forensics, that is, given a security alarm, how to construct the attack path by backtracking weeks or even months of system events ([ ATC'18], [NDSS'18], [USENIX SEC'17], [NDSS'16])
Randomization for trustworthy computing, e.g., randomizing Web advertisement ([FSE'16][ASE'17]), randomizing program inputs to corrupt attacks ([NDSS'17]), and randomizing network protocols

Publications

Full list

Current PhD Students

Dohyeong Kim
Fei Peng
Shiqing Ma
David Perry
Fei Wang
I Luk Kim
Wen-Chuan Lee
Yingqi Liu
Yi Sun
Guanhong Tao
Kenneth Adam Miller

Current Visitors

Current Post Doc

Yousra Aafer
Wei You
Juan Zhai

Former Post Doc

Peng Liu (IBM T.J. Watson)

Former students

Yonghwi Kwon (Assistant Professor at University of Virginia, co-advised with Dongyan Xu)
Weihang Wang (Assistant Professor at SUNY Buffalo, 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 (Assistant Professor at University of Georgia, co-advisded with Dongyan Xu)
Chung Hwan Kim (NEC Labs, co-advised with Dongyan Xu)
Zhui Deng(Apple, co-advised with Dongyan Xu)
Tao Bao(Google)
Yunhui Zheng(Research Staff at IBM T.J. Watson)
William N. Sumner (Assistant 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, Associate 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)

Teaching and Reading Group

CS590 Program Analysis for Deep Learning in fall 2019.
CS408 Software Testing in spring 2019.
CS408 Software Testing in fall 2018.
CS240 C Programming in spring 2018.
CS408 Software Testing in fall 2017.
CS510 Software Engineering in spring 2017.
CS408 Software Testing in fall 2016.
CS408 Software Testing in spring 2016.
CS408 Software Testing in fall 2015.
CS408 Software Testing in spring 2015.
CS353 Principles of Concurrency and Parallelism in fall 2014.
CS408 Software Testing in spring 2014.
CS510 Software Engineering in spring 2013.
CS490 Software Testing in fall 2012.
CS510 Software Engineering in spring 2012.
CS490 Software Testing in fall 2011.
CS352 Compilers: Principles and Practice in spring 2011.
CS510 Software Engineering in fall 2010.
CS510 Software Engineering in spring 2010.
CS590 Advanced Software Testing and Debugging in fall 2009.
CS352 Compilers: Principles and Practice in spring 2009.
CS510 Software Engineering in fall 2008.
Fault Localization and Program Analysis Reading Group (spring 2008).
CS510 Software Engineering in spring 2008.
CS590Z Software Defect Analysis in fall 2007.
CS590F in spring 2007.

Recent Professional Activities

PC member: ICSE'17, FSE'16, CCS'16, ISSTA'16, ICPP'16, CCS'15
ICSE'16 proceedings co-chair
PLDI workship/tutorial chair 2015 and 2016

Personal Interest

Soccer is my favorite. I still play twice a week (timestamp: 12/02/2018).