Zhi Wang

Office: Room 3233, EBII
Department of Computer Science
North Carolina State University
890 Oval Drive
Raleigh, NC 27695-8206

Email: zhi_wang AT ncsu DOT edu

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University under the direction of Dr. Xuxian Jiang. My research focuses on the virtualization based system security. Before joining Dr. Jiang's research team, I was a senior software engineer in Intel Asia-Pacific R&D at Shanghai, where I built the TCP/IP network stack and the USB stack for Tiano, Intel's UEFI implementation. Even before that, I received my B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, in July 1999 and March 2002, respectively.

I expect to finish my Ph.D. degree in the summer of 2012. I am currently in the job market seeking an academic or research position in security. Please contact me for a full CV if you are interested, thanks!

Publications

2012

Isolating Commodity Hosted Hypervisors with HyperLock
Zhi Wang, Chiachih Wu, Michael Grace, Xuxian Jiang
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2012)
Bern Switzerland, April 2012 (15.2%)
Hey, You, Get off of My Market: Detecting Malicious Apps in Official and Alternative Android Markets
Yajin Zhou, Zhi Wang, Wu Zhou, Xuxian Jiang
Proceedings of the 19th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2012)
San Diego, CA, February 2012 (17.8%)
Systematic Detection of Capability Leaks in Stock Android Smartphones
Michael Grace, Yajin Zhou, Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang
Proceedings of the 19th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2012)
San Diego, CA, February 2012 (17.8%)

2011

Process Out-Grafting: An Efficient `Out-of-VM' Approach for Fine-Grained Process Execution Monitoring
Deepa Srinivasan, Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Dongyan Xu
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2011)
Chicago, Il, October 2011 (14.0%) [PDF]
Comprehensive and Efficient Protection of Kernel Control Data
Jinku Li, Zhi Wang, Tyler Bletsch, Deepa Srinivasan, Michael Grace, Xuxian Jiang
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 6(2), June 2011

2010

HyperSentry: Enabling Stealthy In-context Measurement of Hypervisor Integrity
Ahmed M. Azab, Peng Ning, Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Xiaolan Zhang, Nathan C. Skalsky
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2010)
Chicago, Il, October 2010 (17%) [PDF]
DKSM: Subverting Virtual Machine Introspection for Fun and Profit
Sina Bahram, Xuxian Jiang, Zhi Wang, Mike Grace, Jinku Li, Deepa Srinivasan, Junghwan Rhee, Dongyan Xu
Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2010)
New Delhi, India, October 2010 (23%) [PDF]
Transparent Protection of Commodity OS Kernels using Hardware Virtualization
Michael Grace, Zhi Wang, Deepa Srinivasan, Jinku Li, Xuxian Jiang, Zhengkai Liang, Siarhei Liakh
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2010)
Singapore, September 2010 (25%) [PDF]
HyperSafe: A Lightweight Approach to Provide Lifetime Hypervisor Control-Flow Integrity
Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang
Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland 2010)
Oakland, CA, May 2010 (11%) [PDF, Slides]
Defeating Return-Oriented Rootkits with `Return-less' Kernels
Jinku Li*, Zhi Wang*, Xuxian Jiang, Mike Grace, Sina Bahram
Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2010)
Paris, France, April 2010 (19%) [PDF]
[*The names of the first two authors are in alphabetical order]

2009

Countering Kernel Rootkits with Lightweight Hook Protection
Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Weidong Cui, and Peng Ning
Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2009)
Chicago, IL, November 2009 (18%) [PDF]
ReFormat: Automatic Reverse Engineering of Encrypted Messages
Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Weidong Cui, Xinyuan Wang, Mike Grace
Proceedings of the 14th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2009)
Saint Malo, France, September 2009 (19%) [PDF]

2008

Countering Persistent Kernel Rootkits Through Systematic Hook Discovery
Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Weidong Cui, Xinyuan Wang
Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2008)
Boston, MA, September 2008 (25%) [PDF]

Media Coverage

HyperSafe/Oakland '10

HookSafe/CCS '09

Professional Services

TPC Member

Reviewer (Journal)

External Reviewer

Awards and Honors